English Language

[Max Whittaker]

Ever notice the English language is weird.


Often is pronounced ofen

Knife is pronunced nife

Phone is pronounced fone

Are is pronouce R

Weird huh? http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Swimfan85]

extremly http://www.sitcomsonline.com/ubb/smile.gif

and eye is pronounced "i"

[Jinny Girl]

And how Dauter is pronounced Doorter... Ok.. I think I am the only one who says that!

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[FOL & DS fan 4ever]

You've got me thinking about the "exceptions" to the rule in going from singular to plural.

EX:

fish- fish
goose- geese
moose-moose
thesis- theses
mouse- mice

etc. etc. etc.

Q: How about a computer "mouse"?

(and note this: The "traditional" way of ending a sentence w/ a quote is to put the quote on the outside (according to my committee chairperson) ex: My above question should look like this:

Q: How about a computer "mouse?"

Kind of breaks the rule, don't you think?


What made you think about this topic, Max?

[Max Whittaker]

Originally posted by FOL & DS fan 4ever:

What made you think about this topic, Max?



I was bored. My Mom is always saying how the English laguage is weird so I jumped on it.

[FOL & DS fan 4ever]

Originally posted by Jinny Girl:
And how Dauter is pronounced Doorter... Ok.. I think I am the only one who says that!



You've got an east coast accent. Kewl.

[dawsongirl]

How about- know sounding like no. Or- knot sounding like not.

Then there's the our being pronounced as r by some people.

And the red-read, read-reed thing.
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Love ya, see ya here on the feud!

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[LaverneShirley]

How about xylophone being pronounce zylofone?

[Ags2000]

Then of course you have:

there, their, they're
bear, bare
hair, hare
oar, or
wear, ware

etc...

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[JT]

That makes me ask who created the English language!

[Bootsy Whoosh]

Originally posted by JT:
That makes me ask who created the English language!

Ummm....it wasn't just like one dude sitting in a cave that was bored and said "I think I'll make a new language." Language evolves. English is a germanic language. And that's about the extent of the english language that I feel like thinking about right now.