Reading English

Pralbboy rghit, but msot llieky wnrog if sneceetns are dcifluift egounh.

Hi fbaezer, I'm impressed! You picked it up real quick.

Just passing CI and stopped by to say Hello. :wink:
I hope you are well.

This has got to be the most worked over topic at this site . . . i'm awestruck . . .

Hi smokingunne, Glad to see you're active on A2K. Nice to have you drop by to say 'hi.' c.i.

how about SPEAKING ENGLISH ? we had been taught in high-school that the english NEVER say fourteen days or two weeks; a FORTNIGHT is the only acceptable word. our teacher, who had lived for some years in england, WARNED us that, no matter how good our english if we would say fourteen days, everyone would know that we had a poor command of the english language. anyone want to guess what happened when we arrived in canada ... ? we got a lot of strange looks when we explained that we had been in canada for a FORTNIGHT ... after a while people would say : "oh, you mean to say you've been here for a couple of weeks?". so much for trying to speak tha eengllish laanguaage. hbg

Sometimes, two weeks could mean 13 days and 14 nights or 14 nights and 13 days.

c.i. : i don't think i will be tempted to use a FORTNIGHT again ! it'll confuse the local burghers. my first boss introduced me to two english words i had not heard before : THINGAMAJIG and WHATCHAMACALLIT. this was in the days when the ibm tabulators required huge PLUGBOARDS for their operation, and he referred to two special wiring-tools by these names. i thought these were REAL names for these tools ! when i tried these words out on some other people when explaining to THEM how these boards should be wired, you should have seen the surprised looks on their faces. oh, english is a WUNNERFUL LAANGUAAGE , i think lawrence welk would have agreed. i still remember how he pronounced KNOXVILLE, i think it was something like NACKSVEEL. oh, the good old days. hbg

hbg, I have heard those two words used, but not for a FORTYEAR.

I gave this link

My meme experiment

ealier on another thread

Caillng all Dyslexix

about the same subject

This is the fourth thread on this subject in this forum. I've never seen anything like this before.

Seven similar threads:

Sep 12, 7:30pm - congitvie science study
Sep 15, 9:51am - Qeustion
Sep 16, 2:57am - Itnersting fcat
Sep 16, 8:01am - Gotta Love The English Language
Sep 16, 2:53pm - Concerning spelling
Sep 17, 2:13pm - Caillng all Dyslexix
Sep 17, 4:01pm - Reading English


PS -- Search A2K for wrod or ltteers or rghit or oredr.

can we find lawrence welk's english in those threads ? signing off ! have to practice my german and swyzerduetsch; leaving on monday for three weeks on THE CONTINENT. i'll report back after returning to homebase. hbg

Gute Reise und uf widerluege, bis spöter!

What has happened here is that I normally do not visit the English Forums on A2K, so I had no idea there were many others with the same English quote. Besides, I'm too lazy to scroll backwards.

It's not only on A2K. I have received six emails from different parts of the country with this item!

Wy, And I thought I got a lot of email. LOL