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Isn't the English language a funny thing?
Read the following word:
GHOTI
Now pronounce the 'GH' as in 'tough', the 'O' as in 'women' and the 'TI' as in 'emotion'. See what you get?
:-)
Read the following word:
GHOTI
Now pronounce the 'GH' as in 'tough', the 'O' as in 'women' and the 'TI' as in 'emotion'. See what you get?
:-)
man marries ghoti
man, that essay's not getting finished tonight...
it's done now!
too awake to sleep.
F-i-sh...?
My assistant is a Mexican national. Every morning we go over some grammar peculiarity he's picked off NPR on the way to work. Most the time, I give him a half-arsed explanation and a shrug. Today it was grandstand v grandstanding, which he got right away-- without the usual shrug. Most the time I have to check with Grammar Girl.
I love how the word "quite" has two diametrically opposite meanings
Quite.
Actually, I should have said opposite *functions*, not opposite meanings
Mmmm
There are lots of quirks that I like.
That 'ghoti' thing is a staple of CELTA lessons, although it doesn't really help with teaching pronunciation.
One of my favourites is the word 'hardly'. Not only does it have nothing to do with the word 'hard' but it has an almost unique function in that when you use it before a word, it means it's almost the complete opposite.
eg: It's hardly possible = it's almost impossible
eg: It's hardly likely to rain = it's almost completely unlikely to rain
etc
Those two examples look very very similar to me.
There's no equivalent to 'to rain' in the first one. Not that it serves any function in the second one. So it can be dispensed with, for tree purposes of this example. Leaving us with a claim that 'almost impossible' is 'almost the complete opposite' of 'almost completely unlikely'. I hardly think that's correct.
(I also reckon that there /are/ definitions of hard and hardly that are linked).
yeah
/I'm not a big fan of language pedantry.
fush?
seriously
fush
you say 'wummen'?
'wimmin', surely, making the answer 'fish'.
Bi-Monthly
can mean twice a month or every two months.
THIS IS THE WORLD WE ARE LIVING IN
Fortnightly.
...
Would solve that problem.
Now try pronouncing that word again.
Use the gh in 'though'
the o in 'people'
the t in 'ballet'
and the i in 'business'
theo
isn't it a marvel
am i the only one that cannot do what the OP is asking?
my brain is so confused.