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gilshem ironstone

Set your grammatical head spinning...
« on: January 19, 2012, 03:12:06 pm »
The Buffalo Sentence

AKA English is crazy and weird
 
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Aerimor

Re: Set your grammatical head spinning...
« Reply #1 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
 

Script Wrecked

Re: Set your grammatical head spinning...
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2012, 12:33:45 am »
That's what you get from verbifying nouns; don't do it!
 

Dezza

Re: Set your grammatical head spinning...
« Reply #3 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


Ahh the joys of language!
 

 

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