PA. Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 Location can also play a part in the English language. [ATTACH]50261._xfImport[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 Missing spelling. So, & sew, Are spelt differently, But pronounced the the same. So someone write the pronunciation of that word for me ?. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted August 27, 2019 Share Posted August 27, 2019 I can improve on that, space. It can also be spelt SOW, as in sow a seed. But sow, when pronounced to rhyme with cow, means female pig. Go figure! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 [ATTACH]50572._xfImport[/ATTACH] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted February 12, 2020 Author Share Posted February 12, 2020 What does "invalid" mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Not valid. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Eye have a spelling checker It came with my pea sea It plainly marques for my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea. Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it to say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh. As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite It's rare lea ever wrong. Eye have run this poem threw it Eye am shore your pleased two no It's letter perfect awl the weigh My checker tolled me sew. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 What does "invalid" mean? Not valid. Nev Does this mean that these are not really parking spaces? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 Does this mean that these are not really parking spaces? Does this sign mean that you have to put your Disabled Parking Permit on the ground beside your car? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 Red759 It matters little how many words Sound the same, BUT The prenunciation of those words Cannot be written. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 v 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted February 29, 2020 Author Share Posted February 29, 2020 How timely! My grandson's homework this week involved a section dealing with homophones (words that sound the same). In the same homework were some reading words. How do you explain how to say this word: "eight"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Particularly when alongside height, why is it not pronounced hate, or spelt hight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 I did not reply to Spacey's post Feb 13, because I am not Red759, I am red750, and you cannot use the abbreviation Red, because there is now a new member who has selected that user name. Back when I chose that username, capital letters were not used for user names, email addresses, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 We should have red the username more carefully. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted March 1, 2020 Author Share Posted March 1, 2020 Particularly when alongside height, why is it not pronounced hate, or spelt hight? Here's another odd one - "spelt" This use of the word "spelt" as a noun, meaning a variety of cultivated wheat, is not in dispute, however its use as verb can give rise to disagreement. The debate over the correct spelling of words first began when Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755, followed by Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828. While people in England preferred Johnson's spellings, Webster's simplified variations became increasingly popular in the United States. The "-t" often replaces "-ed" in verbs, of perhaps it is the other way around. "Spelt" is correct in Anglo-Australian English, but American English has it as "spelled" However, at the end of the horse racing season, many horses are "spelled" - rested in Australia. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Apologies red750, Now putting the light on to see those pesky keyboard key's. Only missed by one key. Plus that capital R. I usually get called: A U . spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Koreelah Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bruce Tuncks Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 There was a model plane magazine where the editor tried to introduce SR1, which meant spelling reform 1. It was to use the "e" in a consistent way. So you would write about the book you had just red. Personally, I agreed with the idea but I didn't like reading it in practice. It never took off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 How many ways can you pronounce the letter "o"? o as in not, got, etc. i as in women (wimmen) u as in son, won oo as in woman oo as in womb, tomb. Why is tomb not pronounced tom as in bomb? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Pronouncing the same letter in different ways has been solved in some languages with little symbols above the letter. I'm glad that english uses none or very few of these. Punctuation slows me down enough as it is. BUT imagine you are teaching english and the word "up" is the topic.... Cheer up, stuff up, etc. What does the "up" mean? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted January 18, 2021 Author Share Posted January 18, 2021 30 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said: Cheer up, stuff up, etc. What does the "up" mean? When you put a verb - cheer - with a preposition - up - to express an idea or action, you have created a phrasal verb. These phrasal verbs cannot be understood based upon the meanings of the individual parts alone, but must be taken as a whole. We understand what is meant by the pair because we have learned that the two parts make a single, inseparable idea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 23 hours ago, red750 said: How many ways can you pronounce the letter "o"? o as in not, got, etc. i as in women (wimmen) u as in son, won oo as in woman oo as in womb, tomb. Why is tomb not pronounced tom as in bomb? o as in bore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 "Up" as a suffix in local Aboriginal (Noongar) place names in W.A., means "a place of .....". So we have lots of place names in W.A. ending in "up", with the first part of the name referring to what is plentiful there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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