Grammar Police Gazette

[red750]

[nomadpete]

"i" before "e" except after other letters. Sometimes.

[Bruce Tuncks]

i thought it was "i before e except after c"

[old man emu]

i before e,

Except after c,

Or when sounded as "a",

As in neighbour and weigh.

 

 

[facthunter]

I before E, except when it's wrong.  Nev

[red750]

Is it any wonder foreigners have so much trouble with English? Look at these words and how they are pronounced.

 

Tomb

Comb

Bomb.

 

[pmccarthy]

Said with aplomb.

[old man emu]

I'm annoyed by some abbreviations that are creeping into daily use.

 

What is "merch"?

Hang on while I check the "Ts & Cs" that apply.

 

And of course there is that favourite from our leaders that if anything bad could happen their reassurance is "Not on my watch".  The only Leader that such a comment could reasonably have been part of his bag os sayings was George Bush Snr, who was a Navy aviator in WWII, but not likely to have "stood watch".

 

Notice how polite I am? I didn't call a person who flew navy aeroplanes a "pilot".

[facthunter]

Flying onto and off a carrier would need a high degree of PILOT skills. Most early CIVIL pilot uniforms resembled those of the Navy.   Nev

[Marty_d]

My kids confuse me sometimes. If I'm alone in the lounge room one of them will come out and say "where did everyone despawn to?"

[old man emu]

Despawn :  In video games  relating to an object or an entity in a game world) To be instantaneously destroyed or removed.

[facthunter]

HOW come you KNOW of these things OME? Nev

[old man emu]

OME, the Magnificent Mystic. He sees all. He knows f all.

[nomadpete]

9 hours ago, old man emu said:

OME, the Magnificent Mystic. He sees all. He knows f all.

Fake! Fake!

I've seen the real Magnificent Mystic. He's got no legs and he lives in a glass box in Luna Park. If you give him a dollar he'll give you an answer on bit of paper.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Well at least English has no genders attached....  German, for example, has 3 genders and if you get it wrong, the whole sentence is buggered.  Is anybody old enough to remember Esperanto?  It was an attempt to make a modern language but not enough people were interested.

[Bruce Tuncks]

I just googled esperanto and they are still going.

[Bruce Tuncks]

The trouble with real mystics is that they can't forsee the cross-lotto resuls.

[nomadpete]

17 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

The trouble with real mystics is that they can't forsee the cross-lotto resuls.

They aren't  allowed to.

Apparently it's against their rules to profit from their prophesy

[Bruce Tuncks]

Aha ! Silly me for thinking they were just unable to do so. Now if yours truly could only know, all the regulars to this forum would get rich, well after i did anyway.

[Bruce Tuncks]

On a similar note, did you know that genuine black-belt hari krishnas could levitate? Unfortunately, unbelievers give off bad vibes and so they can't show unbelievers. I am in awe of this logic.

[old man emu]

3 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

I just googled esperanto and they are still going.

Now you've buggered it! Spacey is a proponent of Esperanto. 

[facthunter]

Burokratio is a word for Spaceys favourite hate. in Esperanto which like Esperance  alludes to HOPE.   Nev

[red750]

Here's another example.

 

Hung

Sprung

Stung

Tongue.

 

My own surname is another. Unfortunately there are about four pronunciations. I never get called the (my) correct pronunciation.

 

My surname is Hough. I get called Hoff, Howe, Hugh. I (and my predecessors) pronounce it Huff, rhyming with rough, tough. That's enough.  Just don't call me late for dinner.

[onetrack]

Sounds like your ancestors indulged in a lot of Huff and Puff. We call the Hough brand front end loaders, "Hoff" - as did everyone else I know. However, I only recently found out that Frank G. Hough pronounced his name as "Huff".

[facthunter]

It would be a bit rough if you called Gough, Guff.   Nev