Peculiarities within the English language

[sambaDTR]

Derby. Spelt Derby, pronounced Darby, but, if you live there, it is Dorby!

 

[Laughing]

Stand to.
Stand down
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Do you go "up town" or "down town"?

Everyone who speaks proper English goes down town. Southerners go up town or more accurately up the west end

 

[r00fie1]

Derby. Spelt Derby, pronounced Darby, but, if you live there, it is Dorby!

They dont elongate the vowel sounds either in Darby.
The words are spoken sharply.
Unlike Lestagh - where the accent sounds like they`ve got a handful of stones in their mouth - "ehh" is in everyehh word.
Nottingham accent is more "blunt"

 

[BoroinBuxton]

This used to fry my head when I was a kid:

James, while John had had "had", had had "had had"; "had had" had had a better effect on the teacher.

 

[coluka]

If ‘womb’ is pronounced ‘woom‘ and ‘tomb’ pronounced ’toom’, how come ‘bomb’ isn’t pronounced ‘boom’

 

[jeff_potato]

I work with a lot of children learning English and it really makes you think about how bizarre our language can be.

Idioms often get them confused, like raining cats and dogs, but somebody pointed out to me a few years ago that in English we have fingertips, but tiptoes instead of toetips: that had never crossed my mind!

 

[futureboy]

Is the double ee in Pee silent?

The word "queue" has four silent letters at the end

 

[Erimus74]

Ok Lizards
Why do you drive on a parkway but park on a drive way?

Like that