Come, now, I am sure that "rule" is broken somewhere.Originally Posted by MSTRS
Teacher to class: Did you know "sugar" is the only word in the English language where S U is pronounced S H U?
Smart-arse Student: Are you sure?
Still Ridin'
Come, now, I am sure that "rule" is broken somewhere.
Teacher to class: Did you know "sugar" is the only word in the English language where S U is pronounced S H U?
Smart-arse Student: Are you sure?
Motorbike Camping for the win!
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and no mention of their, there and they're..
The instructions are simple...
You're not supposed to be so provocative in your posts
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
frequent infrequenter
bugger, sorry.. it's friday mornin.. I'm still asleep, not thinking.. I'll try not to let that happen again..
The instructions are simple...
Fret thee not good sir. 'Tis but the you're your yawn thing
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Mad nagging bitch!
Actually, the correct term is "shortened", the double tt shortens the i, not softens.
Don't take offence MSTRS- harden up!
Diarrhoea is hereditary - it runs in your jeans
If my nose was running money, I'd blow it all on you...
The instructions are simple...
That stutter you have is most unfortunate
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Deus ex ukulele
The English language is a bit like PowerPoint -- it tends to get slagged off by incompetent users...
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Still Ridin'
GB Shaw - incompetent... who'd'a' thunked it.
Tell me, Hitcher, ever read any of Lederer's "Anguished English" books? I suspect "yes" and if "no", then I think you'd enjoy them. I also have "Crazy English" as well, filled with some great warped takes on our "muvver tongue" - like an entire treatise on how this farmer was concerned about the foxen getting into the hen hice...
I love the English Language - one of the best playgrounds in the World for a growing lad. (Regrettably not as safe as, say, the local landfill, but all the more fun because of that.)
Motorbike Camping for the win!
Deus ex ukulele
May I recommend, in turn, Bill Bryson's Troublesome Words, Penguin, 1984, ISBN 0-14-026640-2
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
Still Ridin'
Already have it. I also have books with such titles as "Curious words", "Dictionary of archaic words", "Superior Person's book of words" (had to get that one, being superior, and all
I read dictionaries for fun. (OK, I know Ubergeek alert!)
Motorbike Camping for the win!
Keep out of Direct Sunlight
Why is English so difficult?
Some reasons to be grateful if you grew up speaking English;
1) The bandage was wound around the wound.
2) The farm was used to produce produce.
3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
4) We must polish the Polish furniture.
5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.
6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
8) At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
10) I did not object to the object.
11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
13) They were too close to the door to close it.
14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.
15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
18) After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.
20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
22) I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.
Screwy pronunciations can mess up your mind!
For example... If you have a rough cough, climbing can
be tough when going through the bough on a tree!
Let's face it - English is a crazy language!
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England and French Fries actually come from Belgium.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? Sometimes I think all the folks who grew up speaking English should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane.
In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital?
Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wiseguy are opposites? If Dad is Pop, how come Mom isn't Mop? I can't explain why? Can you?
NEDWN VIII
Love to hear Elmer Fudd have a go at a few of those.....
When he sings the Christmas Carol 'Walking in a Winter Wonderwand' yea thats pretty cool...
has made a bo-bo in his nappies
the teacher said that that that that that boy said was wrong....................
Bite me!
VERY good Dodger!!!! & VERY true..
I have always had a good grasp on the English language.. but seeing it written so clearly & all together like that, shows just how ferked English is!!
no wonder so many of our kids struggle at school!!!
GET ON
SIT DOWN
SHUT UP
HANG ON
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