Peculiarities within the English language

[Osboro]

Gotton, as in " you've gotten through to... " is not another horrible americanism.
It's old English that's remained in the colonies vocabulary and only returned to us via Cinema and TV.

 

[Frozen Horse]

Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it

 

[Doom_On_Horseback]

I have a German girlfriend. She is much better at English than I am at German. She always says 'hairs' as in plural when describing combing, cutting, dying her Barnet. She thinks it's really silly and makes no sense that we say 'hair'...

 

[rkangel]

Oh to be ert, ept and ane again, as of my youth.
I've always smiled that in the theatre "quiet time" is when the Sound Department make noise, and that the lighting operator "fades up" illumination.
And it's a stethosphone, Doctor. You don't look through it.

 

[Sammysmiths]

Is the double ee in Pee silent?

 

[Erimus11]

Fat chance and slim chance are used to mean the same thing!

 

[Boro in Devon]

Is the phrase "cheap at half the price" incorrect, I think it should be "cheap at twice the price".

 

[SNEEKERS]

Gaol pronounced Jail, but also spelled as jail as well. (Or is it spelt ?)

 

[A]

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

A bit like why does cargo go in a ship, but a shipment goes in a car

 

[Cogeur_le_Conq]

Why is it called a tootbrush? Surely should be a teethbrush unless it was invented by a Mackem??

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I wonder how foreign students of English are taught how either, either and neither or either and neither are correctly pronounced?

Is it it either and neither or either and neither?

Either way, it's either or either or neither or neither, or mebbees its neither, either nor either nor neither or neither.

Building that sentence took me right back to learning logic in digital electronics and also in maths at UNI.

My head hurts

 

[rkangel]

I wonder how foreign students of English are taught how either, either and neither or either and neither are correctly pronounced?

Is it it either and neither or either and neither?

Either way, it's either or either or neither or neither, or mebbees its neither, either nor either nor neither or neither.

Building that sentence took me right back to learning logic in digital electronics and also in maths at UNI.

My head hurts

That's pretty much a verbatim recreation of one of TEFL classes.

 

[Laughing]

Got one, got one. This is a perfectly valid english sentence including the puntuation: Badgered badgers badger badgers.

 

[Erimus11]

Signwriter putting up the a pub sign for The Pig & Whistle

Landlord complains to him that there's too much space between Pig and and and and and Whistle

 

[Transitarmy]

Is the double ee in Pee silent?

No but there's a silent p in Bath, one of our Mams

 

[Erimus11]

No but there's a silent p in Bath, one of our Mams

And there's no F in sugar ......one for the works canteen

 

[red_harrington]

That that exists exists in that that that that exists exists in.

 

[Englishteacher]

Which sentence below is correct?

1. A woman: without her, man is nothing.

2. A woman, without her man, is nothing.

 

[Laughing]

Which sentence below is correct?

1. A woman: without her, man is nothing.

2. A woman, without her man, is nothing.

Most people would say 2. It is actually 1 and 2. They are both correct but have different meanings. If you changed number 1 to :

A woman: without her, man is nothing, irons his own clothes and washes his own dishes.

It looks correct. The colon preceeds a list or an example or a proof.

 

[A]

Most people would say 2. It is actually 1 and 2. They are both correct but have different meanings. If you changed number 1 to :

A woman: without her, man is nothing, irons his own clothes and washes his own dishes.

It looks correct. The colon preceeds a list or an example or a proof.

The importance of punctuation:

Helping your uncle, Jack, off a horse

Or

Helping your uncle, Jack off a horse

 

[r00fie1]

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