Does anyone get annoyed when someone puts the accent on the wrong syllable? I do.
Which syllable is wrong?
Print the word controversy on a 3 by 5 card. Show it to a native speaker of English who was born and raised in the United States, and ask them to speak the word aloud. The present the card to a native speaker of English who was born and raised in England, and as him or her to speak the word aloud.
Then pick one of the two, and beat that person severely for accenting the "wrong" syllable.
Sheesh . . .
I'm QUITE sure you'll find Brits at least who say conTROversy one day and CONtroVERsy the next. I do.
I like to conTRIbute a little to these threads, and would like to ask that southerngent which words he takes exception to. So that he can be cut down to size by such as Setanta of course. I see Setanta is an Irish TV station, I had you down as a southern European seventy-year-old
I'm a pathfinder (look for a derivation of the name Setanta).
Ask Southerngentleman is he buys INsurance or inSURance.
By the way, i hear Canajuns who say CONtribute. I resist the temptation to slap them around a little.
They also shed-yule things--which i think means they keep their christmas decorations out in the back yard in a shack.
I shed yule stuff too. And most English newsreaders now CON tribute.
I see you are the mythical son of Sualtam. Well well.
I'd prefer you didn't spread my personal information all over the net . . .
Do i need to send my sister around to straighten you out?
What, a mythical thithter too? Whatever next!
Sualtam must be Mathos. He looks mythical and he's a sort of anagram.
I think the bra beats the breastbinding thong every time.
Just a personal preference.
You wouldn't want them things flopping around out there when you're pulling a bow string, Bubba . . .
I agree; it would be extremely painful to be bound like that. Like Webster's Dictionary, we're Morocco bound.
Woo ha ha, nice one Clazza.
Lyrics by Walter and Cherie Glaser, apparently. Thought Ms Blair was the first.
Cherie Trifle was the first. Speaking of lyrics, and just having seen Ian Dury and the Blockheads on TV, I was reminded of how I enjoyed "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" lyrics. Unusual for a pop song.
In the deserts of Sudan
And the gardens of Japan
From Milan to Yucatan
Every woman, every man
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me, hit me
Je t'adore, ich leibe dich
Hit me, hit me, hit me
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me slowly, hit me quick
Hit me, hit me, hit me
In the wilds of Borneo
And the vineyards of Bordeaux
Eskimo, Arapaho
Move their bodies to and fro
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me, hit me
Das ist gut, c'est fantastique
Hit me, hit me, hit me
Hit me with your rhythm stick
It's nice to be a lunatic
Hit me, hit me, hit me
Hit me, hit me, hit
In the dock of Tiger Bay
On the road to Mandalay
From Bombay to Santa Fe
Over hills and far away
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me, hit me
c'est ce bon, mm? Ist es nicht
Hit me, hit me, hit me
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Two fat persons, click click click
Hit me, hit me, hit me
That is fine, McT, really well done.
I ran across a very common error recently which made me stop and look a second time. It was an advert for some food item and had the headline NOTHING TASTES BETTER. If that's true, then I shall buy nothing.
McTag wrote:Cherie Trifle was the first. Speaking of lyrics, and just having seen Ian Dury and the Blockheads on TV, I was reminded of how I enjoyed "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick" lyrics. Unusual for a pop song.
In the deserts of Sudan
And the gardens of Japan
From Milan to Yucatan
Every woman, every man
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me, hit me
Je t'adore, ich leibe dich
Hit me, hit me, hit me
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me slowly, hit me quick
Hit me, hit me, hit me
In the wilds of Borneo
And the vineyards of Bordeaux
Eskimo, Arapaho
Move their bodies to and fro
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me, hit me
Das ist gut, c'est fantastique
Hit me, hit me, hit me
Hit me with your rhythm stick
It's nice to be a lunatic
Hit me, hit me, hit me
Hit me, hit me, hit
In the dock of Tiger Bay
On the road to Mandalay
From Bombay to Santa Fe
Over hills and far away
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Hit me, hit me
c'est ce bon, mm? Ist es nicht
Hit me, hit me, hit me
Hit me with your rhythm stick
Two fat persons, click click click
Hit me, hit me, hit me
I could here every note reading this thanks
as for emphasis
I always put the emPHARsis on the right sylLARble
Merry Andrew wrote:That is fine, McT, really well done.
I ran across a very common error recently which made me stop and look a second time. It was an advert for some food item and had the headline NOTHING TASTES BETTER. If that's true, then I shall buy nothing.
In the United States, thanks to state laws, one can almost never say anything bad about a former employee, unless they were fired for cause, and they have signed a document to allow the prospective employer access to their employment records. So there was a trend about a decade ago in which certain key phrases were used to indicate just what the former employer thought of the candidate:
"No one would be better in the advertised position than Mr. Smith."
"You could not possibly find another candidate with as unique a work history as Mr. Jones."
"In my experience, Mr. Doe is a unique individual, the kind of employee i suspect we will never see again."
Love those, Set. And I suppose the former employee could, quite honestly, tell his prospective future employer: "No place could have given me better experience than my previous post."
Like the picture of the dirty tramp advertising Pear's Soap "I used your soap last year, since then I have used no other'. Was it Pear's?
my pet peeve right now is silly double entendres
girl goes into a bar and asks for a double entendre
so the barman gives her one
similiar but not as bad as dick write
