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01/20/2006 06:53:38 PM · #51 |
Originally posted by taterbug:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
...Just out of curiosity, do you pronounce it "ee-ther" or "eye-ther", "to-mah-to" or "to-may-to"?
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ee-ther/eye-ther = or
to-mah-to/to-may-to = mater
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so is it TATERBUG or TOTTERBUG?
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01/20/2006 07:11:54 PM · #52 |
Why do we park on the driveway and drive on the parkway?
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01/20/2006 07:25:14 PM · #53 |
Originally posted by idnic:
Why do we park on the driveway and drive on the parkway? |
LOL never thought of that. |
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01/20/2006 08:39:40 PM · #54 |
| I like colour and I've even seen faeries instead of fairies used. |
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01/21/2006 02:17:47 AM · #55 |
Originally posted by blindjustice:
Americans may be fat and pushy; but people that speak the "queen's english" are the most horrible abomination on earth when it comes to pronouncing words; they have total disregard for correct pronunciation; ie. Jaguar. its two syllables; not three. |
You mean my dream to own a Jag-u-are is all in vain? |
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01/21/2006 02:20:36 AM · #56 |
Originally posted by Flash:
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a-lu-mi-num (Websters 1969) |
Wow. That dictionary is older than I am. |
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01/21/2006 03:07:38 AM · #57 |
Originally posted by jsas:
Originally posted by idnic:
Why do we park on the driveway and drive on the parkway? |
LOL never thought of that. |
Speaking of driveway, in Ottawa (maybe all of Ontario), they refer to it as a laneway. |
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01/21/2006 01:51:58 PM · #58 |
Originally posted by MikeOwens:
Over here we pronounce Aluminum as AL-u-mini-um...!!!!!!!!!!
But we spell it differently
And bouy is pronounced BOY !! not Boo-e!! |
If I may respectfully point out - not only is it pronounced "boy" it is spelled BUOY!!!!
P S Please remember "it's" with an apostrophe means "it is" and its without an apostrophe means possessive ie" The dog ate its bone."
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01/21/2006 02:42:15 PM · #59 |
| 3 pages over the spelling lense/lens good going :) |
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01/22/2006 12:03:11 AM · #60 |
Originally posted by polkop:
3 pages over the spelling lense/lens good going :) |
heheh.. Thanks! |
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01/22/2006 12:26:37 AM · #61 |
Good to see a sense of humour...:D
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01/22/2006 09:39:24 AM · #62 |
I remember feeling like a real ass when I realized that "Dubbya" was incorrect. The correct insulting reference to the American president's name is, in fact, "Dubya". Oops.
~ bacchus
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01/22/2006 09:43:21 AM · #63 |
Yes but if it is Lens and not lense what would the plural of Lens be lensssssssss?
:)
Just me.
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01/22/2006 09:45:21 AM · #64 |
| You're all wrong... it's LEN$, LEN$$, LEN$$$, and LEN$$$$ :) |
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01/22/2006 09:48:35 AM · #65 |
Originally posted by laurielblack:
You're all wrong... it's LEN$, LEN$$, LEN$$$, and LEN$$$$ :) |
Oh that helps.
Happy Sunday Lauriel and everyone else too.
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01/22/2006 09:51:00 AM · #66 |
...and it's Nuclear NOT Nu-cu-lar...that one bugs me to no end!
And btw it's Lens NOT lense :P |
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01/22/2006 10:05:44 AM · #67 |
Originally posted by doctornick:
...and it's Nuclear NOT Nu-cu-lar...that one bugs me to no end! |
The ones that bug me to no end are mischievous (it's pronounced MIS chi vus) and athlete (ATH leet). I'm from Texas and even I don't add in syllables that don't exist. When I hear people say 'mis CHEE vee us' and 'A thu leet' I nearly cringe. |
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01/22/2006 10:07:35 AM · #68 |
Originally posted by MPRPRO:
Yes but if it is Lens and not lense what would the plural of Lens be lensssssssss?
:)
Just me. |
No. Any word that ends in a consonant is pluralized by adding es. |
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01/22/2006 10:20:32 AM · #69 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Originally posted by MPRPRO:
Yes but if it is Lens and not lense what would the plural of Lens be lensssssssss?
:)
Just me. |
No. Any word that ends in a consonant is pluralized by adding es. |
sheepes?? nope it is still sheep:) |
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01/22/2006 10:22:38 AM · #70 |
Originally posted by polkop:
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Originally posted by MPRPRO:
Yes but if it is Lens and not lense what would the plural of Lens be lensssssssss?
:)
Just me. |
No. Any word that ends in a consonant is pluralized by adding es. |
sheepes?? nope it is still sheep:) |
It's English. There's always an exception or two or a hundred. |
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01/22/2006 10:24:04 AM · #71 |
| Lol just messing with you:) |
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01/22/2006 10:24:39 AM · #72 |
Originally posted by polkop:
Lol just messing with you:) |
;o) |
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01/22/2006 10:24:47 AM · #73 |
Wrong thread, sorry
Message edited by author 2006-01-22 10:25:55.
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01/25/2006 08:27:26 AM · #74 |
I read last night that the word lens is derived from the word "lentil", as 14th-15th C reading glasses were formed from pebbles of glass that resembled lentils in shape.
Oh - and an ellipsis has three dots, not two...
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01/25/2006 09:20:47 AM · #75 |
Originally posted by legalbeagle:
Oh - and an ellipsis has three dots, not two... |
Well that explains alot. I typically use as many as I feel like.....and this probably explains why I spell lense with an "e". Sheesh, some English Majors (me) should really know better.
;-}
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