Could, would, should, mould.
Didn't you want to pronounce the last one mwuuhd?
Hugs,
Erin
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OMG....soo funny ROFLMAO
There are 7-letter acronyms
There are 7-letter acronyms now?
WIGTTFOOS...
Yup
In the hierarchy of laughing, from laughs to Lots of Laughs (LOL) to Rolling on the Floor Laughing (ROFL), ROFLMAO adds My Ass Off. It wouldn't surprise me if there's an extension of that roaming around - although at those lengths, you have to wonder whether returning to "laughs" would be both more apt and more economical with letters...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
And then there's...
MacDonald, MacKenzie, MacHine. Teehee ;-)
And....
...sour, flour, hour, detour... I actually had a friend in Middle School - Duncan MacDonald of all people, who pronounced it MacHine. :)
Love, Andrea Lena
Gallagher
Love these routines of his...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWN9rTc08GU
People say, "You don't know what you had until it's gone." Very true, but also equally true is, "You don't know what you've been missing until is arrives."
And remember if you ever get
And remember if you ever get a boat, have your beau tie a bough on the bow with ribbon tied in a pretty bow.
The reason English is so messed up
The reason English is so messed up is that most of English started as something else. Since the rules for spelling and pronunciation are based on the language the word was stolen from, and those rules vary wildly, plus the fact those rules are altered (then re-altered based on region/ accent) once the word has been stolen. It makes English a language of exceptions, not rules.
There is no other language
with all of the intracacies and complications of today's contemporary English language as spoken by amsericans, which is slightly different from the British/United Kingdom's Queen's/Kinng's English along with the local dialects.
May Your Light Forever Shine
GHOTI
rouGH
wOmen
naTIon
Nuff said?
Rose
Rose
One Billion Served:
Mandarin is spoken by over a billion people; to those of us who don't speak it, it's likely as complicated and challenging a language as you'll find! This from tvtropes dot org:
Further, Chinese is a tonal language. Mandarin Chinese uses four tones and a neutral tone. A student not accustomed to tonal speech can easily mishear what is intended or form strange malapropisms just by not paying attention to the tone. As an example, the words for 'mother' (妈/媽 mÄ), 'to scold' (骂/ç½µ mà ), 'hemp' (麻 má), and 'horse' (马/馬 mÇŽ) are distinguished only by a change in tone* (now there's an international incident just waiting to happen).
So if I told a friend in Lanzhou that my favorite movie of all time was I Remember Mama, they might think I was talking about scolding my mother or owning a hemp horse, aye?
Love, Andrea Lena
According to Bill Bryson in
According to Bill Bryson in Mother Tongue:
"In Cantonese, hae means 'yes'. But, with a fractional change of pitch, it also describes the female pudenda."
I'll raise you
Blood, food, wood.
I just love the English language!
Penny
English is a crazy language
Look up The Chaos, by Charivarius (Gerard Nolst Trenité) - it's the one that starts:
It's also worth taking a peek at Richard Lederer's "Crazy English: The Ultimate Joy Ride Through Our Language." The introduction was once available on his website - he's now pulled it but someone's archived it and published it over here. One short extract:
And the sheer number of homophones are alluded to in Jerrold H. Zar's Candidate for a Pullet Surprise (aka "Owed to a Spelling Checker", first two stanzas below):
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!