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English is a messed up language...

 
 
Post: # 40,857
View Profile Debacle
 
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Reply Tue 17 Dec, 2002 09:30 pm
Wow! Take a bow, Bow-Wow. Reading that stuff through was
rough, I thought ... though not so thoroughly tough as typing it, I trow.
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Reply Tue 17 Dec, 2002 10:38 pm
The US Post delivers mail, the Royal Mail delivers the post!?! :wink:
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Post: # 41,868
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Reply Thu 19 Dec, 2002 09:02 am
In America, a homeowner lives on Smith Street, while bums live in the street. In Britain, a homeowner lives in Smith Street while bums live on the street.
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Post: # 58,430
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Reply Sat 4 Jan, 2003 12:20 pm
It is claimed that -OUGH can be pronounced 9 different ways in the following sentence:

A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed, houghed, and hiccoughed.
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Post: # 58,583
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Reply Sat 4 Jan, 2003 02:47 pm
And as he walked through the streets of Scarborough, he heard the sough of the wind in the boughs and thought of the old cloughs of Slough, where the drought in the lough stopped the plough.
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Post: # 58,630
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Reply Sat 4 Jan, 2003 04:01 pm
woof woof
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Post: # 58,662
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Reply Sat 4 Jan, 2003 04:41 pm
Rough stough! Enough! Giggle...
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Post: # 72,275
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Reply Wed 15 Jan, 2003 07:38 pm
I've been trying to speak english for 3 score years. The Queen's English ?
Nah. My english speech is home grown and littered with cockney/london slang. When writing though, i subscribe, when i can remember them, to the rules of the language. capitals though aren't my forte.
English has been moulded thoughout the world to suit the local population. It maybe the primary language or the secondary. Your sidewalk is my pavement, and my sheep might be your jumbuck.
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Post: # 72,281
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Reply Wed 15 Jan, 2003 07:43 pm
hey Oak...then speak, boy, speak. Roll over and play down under... Laughing
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Post: # 72,291
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Reply Wed 15 Jan, 2003 07:53 pm
once an Irishman...always an Irishman...Hi, Tommy
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Post: # 73,220
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Reply Thu 16 Jan, 2003 03:37 pm
Letty - What about ye? How are You?

Knock, Knock!

Who's There?

Paddy

Paddy Who?


Clint Eastwood
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Post: # 73,295
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Reply Thu 16 Jan, 2003 05:20 pm
Well, Tommy,

I'm laughin' here. Ever hear of a paddy wagon?

I love knock knock jokes. Go ahead. Start one. Laughing
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Post: # 73,296
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Reply Thu 16 Jan, 2003 05:21 pm
Who's there?
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Post: # 73,306
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Reply Thu 16 Jan, 2003 05:31 pm
billet
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Post: # 73,316
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Reply Thu 16 Jan, 2003 05:41 pm
I'll bite,

Billet who?
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Post: # 73,348
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Reply Thu 16 Jan, 2003 06:08 pm
billet bidet?

who else would it be?
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Post: # 73,387
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Reply Thu 16 Jan, 2003 06:39 pm
sister of commode?
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Post: # 73,403
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Reply Thu 16 Jan, 2003 06:45 pm
right, brother of john.
ur inal over me head she said
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Post: # 73,407
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Reply Thu 16 Jan, 2003 06:46 pm
billet, doux you do windows...?
or just sit around writing "dear john" letters.
Apology to the oak man... Laughing
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Post: # 73,466
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Reply Thu 16 Jan, 2003 07:29 pm
uhoh.
Music again.
"Day bidet, I'm falling more in love with you..."

Laughing
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