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October 18th, 2017, 01:11 PM | #4011 | |
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It pains me to say it, but the US aluminum is more correct than the UK aluminium. Or should I say "less wrong than". |
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October 18th, 2017, 04:52 PM | #4012 |
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ough in English is always a tricky one.
8 ways of pronouncing it in one sentence: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed." http://www.englishwithlee.com/ough-pronunciation/ |
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October 18th, 2017, 08:31 PM | #4013 |
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To add to this, there was a trend in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for writers to alter the spelling of words derived from Latin and Greek in order to reflect their origins. For instance, the word 'debt', once spelled variously as 'det', 'dette' or 'dett', was changed by scholars to 'debt' as it reflected the Latin root 'debitum'. Similarly, 'flem' (or 'fleme') found itself changed to 'phlegm', in order to Greek-ify the word. The effect of this was to needlessly complicate spelling in many cases. This also led to many words inadvertently becoming shibboleths which educated elites could use to identify each other.
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October 22nd, 2017, 09:02 AM | #4014 |
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This thread has become worse than my old Double Langauge Studies at school on a Monday Morning.......I can feel the ghost of Mr Hutchinson's blackboard rubber whistling past my ear as I get my French Genders wrong again
Run twice around the schoolfield while reflecting on the feminine gender of une orange (probably got that wrong as it was nearly 40 yrs ago)
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October 22nd, 2017, 09:52 AM | #4015 | |
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Someone put the 'h' in 'posthumous' under the impression it was connected with earth - ie burial. In fact, 'postumus' came from 'post' (after) and meant last or latest. Similarly, the 'g' was put in sovereign as though it came from reign and the Latin root regn-; in reality it came from the Norman-French 'souverain' (superior), from late Latin 'superanus' (stop sniggering there!) I could go on for ages, and often do until forcibly restrained... Last edited by mikk; October 22nd, 2017 at 02:13 PM.. |
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November 1st, 2017, 05:21 AM | #4016 |
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I don't know if this is exactly a British specific question, but . . . What's the deal with Morrissey fans?
Was just at a concert and the beefy security were having to fight off girls and boys half his age. It was a good show, but I didn't see quite what the nuttiness was about. Other than some rap concerts, I've never seen so much security . . . So what's it about? |
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November 1st, 2017, 05:42 AM | #4017 | |
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Incidentally, JK Rowling is a Morrissey devotee, and I heard her once describe the one time she met him, which occurred long after she had become much more famous than him. She said that she shook his hand and exchanged pleasantries, and after he had walked away, she stood with her hand still raised in position from where she had shaken Morrissey's, and she kept repeating "he touched me, Morrissey touched me", while her sister-in-law (I think), was whispering to her "Put your hand down. You look mental". I did once laugh very much at a clip I saw of Morrissey in a documentary, where he met one of his rabid fans, and the exchange went like this: Rabid fan: "Oh my god, I can't believe I met you! I just want to say that you've made me and millions of other people extremely happy." Morrissey (completely deadpan): "Well, I certainly didn't mean to." |
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November 1st, 2017, 06:23 AM | #4018 | |
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Its Halloween here, and many of the fans were in costume. I was near the front and so got a close up view as security took on a weedy hipster in a blue bunny suit who tried to climb on the stage-- he didn't make it. Then a zombie tried to rush from the other side and punched another of the security guys- he got smacked down, banged his head on an armrest and there was blood. Its been a summer of old British acts here, also saw Dave Mason (terrific) and Bryan Ferry (getting on in years and never was a strong singer) |
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November 1st, 2017, 08:48 AM | #4019 |
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Not too sure about his views on Bryan Ferry mind.
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