Posted on 08/02/2017 10:36:41 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Just thinking
* If you attempt to rob a bank you won't have any trouble with rent/food bills for the next 10 years, whether or not you are successful.
* Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned?
* What if my dog only brings back my ball because he thinks I like throwing it?
* If poison expires, is it more poisonous or is it no longer poisonous?
* Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C?
* Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be called double V?
* Maybe oxygen is slowly killing you and It just takes 75-100 years to fully work.
* Every time you clean something, you just make something else dirty
* The word "swims" upside-down is still "swims".
* Intentionally losing a game of rock, paper, scissors is just as hard as trying to win.
* 100 years ago everyone owned a horse and only the rich had cars. Today everyone has cars and only the rich own horses.
* Your future self is watching you right now through memories.
* The doctors that told Stephen Hawking he had two years to live in 1953 are probably dead.
* If you replace "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When", you get the answer to each of them.
* Many animals probably need glasses, but nobody knows it.
* If you rip a hole in a net, there are actually fewer holes in it than there were before.
* If 2/2/22 falls on a Tuesday, we'll just call it "2's Day".
(it is on Tuesday)
Did you ever wonder which of our primordial ancestors decided that the way to express approval was to bang our hands together? And how did he or she convince the others?
What if you go to the store to buy batteries, but when you get home, you discover they weren’t included? (Steven Wright)
Are you talking about ‘High Fives’?......
Smacking insects? Ya think? LOL!
Interesting that clapping is universal for approval or delight.
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
And we learned that shaking hands was to show that you were not carrying a weapon.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, and three rights make a left.
-Gallagher.
* Which letter is silent in the word “Scent,” the S or the C?
Neither
Actually, in the French Alphabet that's exactly what it's called - "Doob-le-Vay"
But who wants to go around sounding like some snooty Frog?
As is the Thai hands together in “prayer’ position and the Vietnamese arms folded and hands up everywhere.
Do twins ever realize that one of them is unplanned?How much more worse is it for triplets, quadruplets ad nauseam?
Which letter is silent in the word "Scent," the S or the C?Yay, morphology/etymology/homophony games. The addition of the letter “c” was most likely due to this word being a homophone of “sent”, the past tense of “send” because the word it was borrowed from did not have the “c” in the spelling, unlike science (from Latin scientia, where the “c” was originally pronounced like a k).
Why is the letter W, in English, called double U? Shouldn't it be called double V?It’s called double-V in French. In German, it’s just called V. And in Latin, the character V was either pronounced U or W, hence two of them ending up as “double-U” in English (since the pronunciation of U and V was transposed at one time, i.e. U was pronounced V and vice versa).
Many animals probably need glasses, but nobody knows it.The animal itself knows. But it likely does not care, since its senses of smell and hearing is what it relies on more. (Ask a mole.)
How brave or desperate was the first man who decided to catch a crab and then eat the freaky looking thing?
I like you.
I have no taste.
But I like you.
In the Roman alphabet there were only 24, not 26, letters. The (graphical) letter V existed in the alphabet, but it represented what we now use U to represent. The “double U” is “W” and not “U” because the “V” symbol, at that time, represented “U” as we know it.With The Story of English in 100 Words, David Crystal took us on a tour through the history of our language. Now, with Spell It Out, he takes on the task of answering all the questions about how we spell: "Why is English spelling so difficult?" Or "Why are good spellers so proud of their achievement that when they see a misspelling they condemn the writer as sloppy, lazy, or uneducated?" In thirty-seven short, engaging and informative chapters, Crystal takes readers on a history of English spelling, starting with the Roman missionaries' sixth century introduction of the Roman alphabet and ending with where the language might be going. He looks individually at each letter in the alphabet and its origins. He considers the question of vowels and how people developed a way to tell whether or not it was long or short. He looks at influences from other cultures, and explains how English speakers understood that the "o" in "hopping" was a short vowel, rather than the long vowel of "hoping". If you've ever asked yourself questions like "Why do the words "their", "there" and "they're" sound alike, but mean very different things?" or "How can we tell the difference between "charge" the verb and "charge" the noun?" David Crystal's Spell It Out will spell it all out for you.Spell It Out: The Curious, Enthralling, and Extraordinary Story of English Spelling Dec 2, 2014 by David Crystal
In short, I seek a world in which the Fart Joke
is elevated to a form of High Comedic Art.
How can eating two pounds of chocolate make me gain five pounds?
It must be the “c” or the word would be pronounced “skent.”
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