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Title: Set your grammatical head spinning...
Post by: gilshem ironstone on January 19, 2012, 03:12:06 pm

The Buffalo Sentence (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo)

AKA English is crazy and weird

Title: Re: Set your grammatical head spinning...
Post by: Aerimor on January 19, 2012, 04:50:01 pm

Along the same line, but for letter sounds in English.  Notice the two variations.

"Ghoti", how do you pronounce it?

Ghoti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti)

Title: Re: Set your grammatical head spinning...
Post by: Script Wrecked on January 20, 2012, 12:33:45 am

That's what you get from verbifying nouns; don't do it!

Title: Re: Set your grammatical head spinning...
Post by: Dezza on January 20, 2012, 03:38:54 am

Quote from: Aerimor

Along the same line, but for letter sounds in English.  Notice the two variations.

"Ghoti", how do you pronounce it?

Ghoti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghoti)

Ahh the joys of language!