Setanta wrote:For all you whiners in the English-speaking world who are wont to complain about the clear, demonstrable superiority of the American language
I was trying to flatter you. Looks like it got lost in translation.... :wink:
Grand Duke wrote:Setanta wrote:For all you whiners in the English-speaking world who are wont to complain about the clear, demonstrable superiority of the American language
I was trying to flatter you. Looks like it got lost in translation.... :wink:
I know, it was very kind of you. I just wanted to add a little arrogance and disdain in the hope of moving the thread along, and getting a rise out of . . . well, anybody . . .
I tried the same tactic in my 'Is it time for a Fat Tax?' topic, and got slated as a fascist. Seems to work, most of the time!
Well, you Nazi pig, i don't know what you expected.
Seig Heil, Bubba . . .
It's one of the few faults of the written/typed exchange that sarcasm doesn't come across very well. Oh well, sh#t happens!
The King with crown upon his head
Was told about the matter zed
And so it was His Majesty
Forbade it ever rhyme with pee.
caprice wrote:SCoates wrote:It is ridiculous to pronounce it "zed." It's not necessary to explain the sound of the letter. Is there any logic behind why it's pronounced that way? Or why you don't pronounce the other letters as ad, bed, ced, ded, ed, fed... and so forth?
That logic works in the world of SCoates....feel free to join the rest of us in the
real world!
Caprice, you made me cry...
SCoates: *LOL* Them iz the biggest croc tears I've ever seen!!!
I say zee. Never understood why zed is zed, but I'm grateful it exists. It's a handy Scrabble word.
I say zee... but my dad used to do ham radio, and on the radio you say zed when giving call numbers, even if you're in america.
Don't know why, it always sounded sort of milar-ish to me.
There you go its zed. Rufio's dad said. Thats sed not see, see?
Also the Alphabet would go from A to Zeee... sorry is that two three or an infinite series of 'e' s? That is no proper ending at all. At least Zed has a proper end sound and rhymes with dead as in dead end. qed
A Brit and a twit . . . i remain unconvinced . . .
That's your trouble Set, sometimes you just wont be told....
Send ye not to seek for whom the bell told
It told for thee . . .
Well thats acceptable
thee is ok
It told for thed would be silly.
Unless Thed was his name in which case it would be quite all right to ask who it was.
So when the Royal Navy sorties in its ships, the Senior Service puts to sed, huh?
Where the bed sucks
There suck i
When a dog stratches, is it because he's been bitten by a fled?
When you express your delight at something, are you being gledful?
If you sprain the middle joint of your leg, have you injured your kned?
Now you really are being silly
The Royal Navy only has one ship, and they can't afford any day trips out in it.
Steve (as 41oo) wrote:The Royal Navy only has one ship, and they can't afford any day trips out in it.
All the other Englishmen then the crew of this, can swim!
