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To: MinorityRepublican
The English and the Americans, two peoples separated by a common language.
57 posted on
06/09/2015 9:41:50 PM PDT by
Pelham
(The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
To: MinorityRepublican
Then along came The Internet and the people no longer new the difference between Loose and Lose, There and Their, and other challenging homophones.
58 posted on
06/09/2015 9:57:57 PM PDT by
ProtectOurFreedom
(For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
To: MinorityRepublican
My high school Latin teacher (also and English teacher) said that all the “short, ugly words” were Germanic, but the rest were Latinate.
59 posted on
06/09/2015 10:27:48 PM PDT by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Now we don’t even want to spell things as they sound. How do spellings like hed, hart, lafter, dotter, and det look to you?Shaddup!
73 posted on
06/09/2015 10:54:39 PM PDT by
dr_lew
To: MinorityRepublican
Pronunciations can differ.In England
“oo” in words is pronounced like oo while
we may say “uh”
Booker T and the MGs
In US “Buhker”,UK “Boo-ker
yet in US, the words
“boo” and “woo” are pronounced to
rhyme with “true”
In UK “lieutenant” —”left-tenant”
In US “loo-tenant”
Yet ask a Britisher to say “lieu”
(as in,”place”...”in lieu of”)
and I think they’d pronounce it “loo”
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