English can be a funny language

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Originally Posted by silentC

Herbert Coleridge would be horrified! Sports commentators defining the language. What next?

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My thoughts exactly! But I didn't want to say it - who knows who's on this board?:rolleyes:

I put me hand in me sky rocket and found a Lady Godiva so I went to the rubbity for a tumble down the sink and ended up Brahms and Listz.

Barry Hicks

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Originally Posted by Barry Hicks

I put me hand in me sky rocket and found a Lady Godiva so I went to the rubbity for a tumble down the sink and ended up Brahms and Listz.

Barry Hicks

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Nope none of those either....:U

HH.

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Originally Posted by silentC

Herbert Coleridge would be horrified! Sports commentators defining the language. What next?

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RANT ON Like winningest and I don't care how many dictionaries it's in it's not a word and should be struck from verbal use by American sports commentators with IQ's in the minuses...RANT OFF:U

HH.

And acclimate. What's wrong acclimatise? Bloody Americans :~

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Originally Posted by silentC

And acclimate. What's wrong acclimatise? Bloody Americans :~

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burglarized is my pet hate. :((

A lot of people say burg-u-lar too. Where does the 'u' come from.

My son sometimes tells me he is hun-gar-y. I reply, what, the whole country? He doesn't get it. Five year olds! Tsk!

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Originally Posted by silentC

My son sometimes tells me he is hun-gar-y. I reply, what, the whole country? He doesn't get it. Five year olds! Tsk!

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:U :U :U

HH.

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When I took the first survey of my undertaking, I found our speech copious without order, and energetick without rules: wherever I turned my view, there was perplexity to be disentangled, and confusion to be regulated; choice was to be made out of boundless variety, without any established principle of selection; adulterations were to be detected, without a settled test of purity; and modes of expression to be rejected or received, without the suffrages of any writers of classical reputation or acknowledged authority.

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That's a beautiful piece of prose: it uses correct grammar, well-chosen words and unambiguous pronunciation.

wotsit mean

Thanks for the quotation, silent. I'd heard that Dr. Johnson despaired of the language going to hell in a handbasket, but I didn't know the full expression.

I suspect the folks who say "burg-u-lar" also say "nuc-u-lar."

One of the stranger phenomena is a word with two opposite meanings. One that comes readily to mind is "citation." Can mean either a laudatory document or a traffic ticket. Similar with "sanction:" both approval and disapproval.

Joe

And to confuse the migrants, just a few:
Trough
Plough
Rough
Dough
Plenty more I'm sure

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Originally Posted by AlexS

That's a beautiful piece of prose: .

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Originally Posted by Dr Johnson in Blackadder

Like attaching wheels to a tomato, time consuming and utterly pointless

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Originally Posted by Emdund Blackadder

I'm anispeptic, frazmotic even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations.

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Thanks silent for reminding me of that episode, I put it on last night for the first time in a while, after the Broncos got drubbed again, which usually makes me happy, but I tipped em after last weeks thrashing of Newcastle.

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Originally Posted by silentC

Bloody Americans :~

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http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com...ght=revocation

For those who missed, either nearly or otherwise, this gem.

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Originally Posted by joe greiner

"nuc-u-lar."

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I've (I have:D ) heard George Dubbya (George Double 'U') use that one in his addresses (Homilies) to the world (the other 2.???%).