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Now, I'd have used, and said it spelled....Spelt (Triticum spelta) is a hexaploid species of wheat.
*cough* spelt *cough*
Now, I'd have used, and said it spelled....Spelt (Triticum spelta) is a hexaploid species of wheat.
I just hate the way you take all our 'S's and replace them with 'Z's
Quotations within speech should always be marked in the opposite way to whatever you use for the speech marks, to keep the distinction clear."I was taught when using quotations like that that you use double unless you are using quotations within 'quotations' like so then you still close your double"
New Englanders and some parts of Britain do not comprehend that r is prounced in words that have an r and not in words that do not; these people should be given hooked on phonics.
Simularly, h exists for a reason.
Just a question, if skedule is shedule, is skool pronounce shool? I have often wondered.
You mean that dreadful abuse of the language is supposed to help people to understand?!! Worsh a cah? I rather wash my car.I assume that you are talking about the long "a" sound that makes "bath" sound like "barth". I thought that was just a vagary of Received Pronunciation, which was a deliberate attempt to standardise UK English pronunciation. It was cooked up in the early days of broadcasting so that puffin-catchers on Shetland and pasty-makers in Cornwall could all understand what was being said by stern looking gentlemen in nice suits. I had no idea it went on in New England too.
There are very few places in the UK where "barth" is pronounced as such in the authentic local dialect. Londoners say something that sounds like "barf" and people in the South West might say "baath", but otherwise we tend to pronounce it with a short "a".
Your no fun!Hmm, the written language is evil. We all might aswell stick to our own countries for the writing; and generally not try and sabotage each other for the differences.
You mean that dreadful abuse of the language is supposed to help people to understand?!! Worsh a cah? I rather wash my car.
Nope, its car and kawfy? like cough with an ee at the end. The R thing just bugs me. Mutilating vowels is one thing but adding and removing consonants is another. Oh well, at least I don't live where they talk funny.Really? I thought you washed your corrs over there. And then had a cup of kwarfy afterwards. Before declaring war on tur.
..and thus began the Great Phonetic War, in which two closely allied countries tore themselves apart over the correct way to speak a language which is German anyway.........
Jovial regards,
Peter
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