English language

Post by **lindosfan1** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 12:22 pm

The are many words in the English language that either confuse by there pronounciation or make up. What examples have you.
1.Disgruntled why can I not be gruntled
2. If the plural of mouse is mice why isn't the plural of house hice.
3. If the singular of geese is goose why insn't the singular of sheep shoop
4. Why is bough pronounced bow but cough pronounced coff confusing
5 Towns why is Reading pronounced redding.
6. I before e except after c Foreigner what happened there
I admire foreigners who learn English it is confusing

Post by **Norseman** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:08 pm

That's true lindos.
Do you happen to know what a "D flat major or D flat minor " is?
How the heck are foreigners supposed to know but it's partly my answer.

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 2:21 pm

Now come on Norseman thats an easy one

One of them is in the army and the other works underground

or it could be 2 caribean gentlemen talking about punctured tyres

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:29 pm

You can be introduced and you can be reintroduced

You can be bored but you cannot be rebored now think about it or can you????

Post by **PeteC** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:44 pm

sargeant wrote:You can be introduced and you can be reintroduced

You can be bored but you cannot be rebored now think about it or can you????

Yes you can, if the well caves in, you can rebore it. If your root canal or bypass fails, the doc can rebore it.

You can only be reintroduced if the first introduction was too boring and the person was bored and not listening.

Pete

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:48 pm

Ah Ha i think you missed the YOU cannot be rebored

Or can YOU

Post by **PeteC** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 7:58 pm

This thread will do ya good Sarge. When you get upset and dive into your cockney, just remember us poor sods out here who are trying to figure it out...LOL.

Pete

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:10 pm

Right this is getting bleedin personal what wiv Lindos taking the mickey out of my town of birf Reading and now pete having a dig at the language i learnt before i come here Hammersmiff wiv a bit of the afro caribean thrown in for good measure
I am cosmopolitan mush ill ave you no

any more of this personal rhubarb and ill be of up the apples and pears and you can play on your own

Post by **lindosfan1** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:23 pm

Why is it called the london underground it is in the ground.

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:35 pm

Especially when from West Kensington to Heathrow its all above ground

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 8:59 pm

Why do the stupid English drink tea beer milk cocoa and then call it a coffee table

Post by **PeteC** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:11 pm

sargeant wrote:Why do the stupid English drink tea beer milk cocoa and then call it a coffee table

I think that's my fault. You adopted it from American English. We were never real tea drinkers after the Boston episode so naturally, we changed the name of the table.

However, I've never read or heard of a "tea table"?

Logical question Sarge as to the origin of the name. Pete

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:18 pm

Its a bit like calling things in england sun loungers they dont have any sun rain and freezing cold lounger maybe but sun

Post by **dtaai-maai** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:22 pm

prcscct wrote:
sargeant wrote:However, I've never read or heard of a "tea table"?

Try googling it, you'll probably be even more surprised than I was!

sargeant · Post by **sargeant** » Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:37 pm

DM i think pete is of the colonial variety certainly as a young boy we had a tea table we also had breakfast dinner and tea as against breakfst lunch and dinner as it is now
Tea consisted of Bread and dripping and jam or cheese and pickle/chutney ask richard hell tell you

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