It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
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DudeManBroGuy42069 t1_iybjpqq wrote
I’m too poor for gold, but have this my good man
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crispilly OP t1_iybxkbc wrote
Saul Goodman ;-)
Curlynoodles t1_iybzljj wrote
I'm an English teacher and I'm stealing this comment for class tomorrow. Thanks!
Shevek99 t1_iya1v1d wrote
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edPxKqiptw
The Chaos Of English Pronunciation by Gerard Nolst Trenité
crispilly OP t1_iya0ite wrote
Omg this is so good. Take my internet gold for your post.
Obvious_Setting7145 t1_iy9ogfm wrote
Holy fuck
melvinsylar7 t1_iybzxuh wrote
This brings us to the ancient question, do you pronounce GIF as GIF or GIF?
Tough-Ad-5443 t1_iycjt0q wrote
Personally I say GIF!
Mikesaidit36 t1_iydtoe3 wrote
I have a friend named Jeff who is known in a handful of text threads for being able to come up with the perfect GIF response to any text within 30 seconds and so now we call him GIF
1shri t1_iycfdhr wrote
My whole English vocabulary comes from science books and this made me loose all the confidence I had in my english
_pete_beat t1_iycn4au wrote
>do not call it deed!
Unless you're a geordie
nomak3 t1_iy8wu0a wrote
english is the easiest language of all the languages i know
modia_katla t1_iy8zlzx wrote
Don't tell me it's the only one too.
notoriousnationality t1_iya2ap7 wrote
He’s probably English
loosegoose1952 t1_iybklzf wrote
Indeed. I'd learnt the basics by the time I was two
Hooterdear t1_iy9efkx wrote
/r/wordavalanches
oscarqian t1_iy8xqx1 wrote
Josh, where jack had had ’had,’ had had ’had had.’ ’Had had’ had had the teacher’s approval.
Tranktaken t1_iy8zrqy wrote
Sorry to be that guy, but it’s while, not where
Statalyzer t1_iybiboh wrote
"Where" referring to the same location in the sentence.
RookieJourneyman t1_iyanyce wrote
Read rhymes with lead, and read rhymes with lead. But read doesn't rhyme with read, and lead doesn't rhyme with lead.
ProbablyNotUnusual t1_iybudw9 wrote
Just remember... It's always I before E.
Except when you're planning a feisty heist on your weird beige neighbor.
estropeada t1_iyc3kdt wrote
I before E except after C, that's just science.
LadeeAlana t1_iyebaah wrote
"Sugar" is the only word in which the "s" is pronounced as "sh".
I am sure of that.
PapaOoMaoMao t1_iycl47k wrote
I before E except when your run a feisty heist on your weird beige foreign neighbor Keith who received eight counterfeit sleighs from caffeinated weightlifters.
SupersuMC t1_iyb2ypl wrote
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
octopode_ala_mode t1_iy91vjp wrote
The-Bishop t1_iyc6lso wrote
The differently pronounced words despite orthographic similarities reminds me of Bernard Shaw's comment that "fish" could also legitimately be written as "ghoti" in English ...
(Cf. the respective entry in Wikipedia)
Animustrapped t1_iy9asui wrote
on a bough by a lough...
smcl2k t1_iya07zx wrote
Why are you bringing Irish into this?
Animustrapped t1_iya0p61 wrote
Gaelic, you mean. English is a magpie nest of nicked jewels.
art_mech t1_iya1rax wrote
Just look at the British Museum!
frankwhiteXVII t1_iy9g0dm wrote
Need a snack, think I’ll pare a pair of pears.
Alarmed_Bad4048 t1_iy9vkpp wrote
On the other hand paws, pause, pours and pores does my head in.
Aldrakev t1_iyaw68z wrote
this too is one of two english jokes to make me laugh.
crispilly OP t1_iybofvi wrote
What is the other one?
LionelLines t1_iybqon7 wrote
It’s a joke—he used every version of to/two/too.
crispilly OP t1_iybwyze wrote
Three witches watch three swatch watches. Which witch watches which swatch watch?
sauldobney t1_iycfw17 wrote
We read this yesterday, and it's time that we read it again.
LadeeAlana t1_iye9huw wrote
If your assignment was to read this sentence out loud:
"I read a newspaper."
and that was all you had, just the one sentence, how could you possibly know if the verb was present tense or past tense? You could only get it right if your teacher was feeling generous that day.
LadeeAlana t1_iyeo1cm wrote
You say can't, and I say can't.
You say class, and I say class.
You say laugh, and I say laugh.
On paper, we're fine.
No_Understanding3562 t1_iybqv75 wrote
Jimmy Buffett buffet
LadeeAlana t1_iyemtra wrote
I'm not going if the background music is nothing more than a medley of his hit.
skay167 t1_iy8wq46 wrote
The Kings English
Anonymous
I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough? Others may stumble，but not you, On hiccough，thorough，slough and through.
Beware of heard，a dreadful word, That looks like beard but sounds like bird.
And dead: It is said like bed，not bead -- For goodness’ sake，do not call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat… They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not the moth in mother, Nor both in bother，nor broth in brother.
And here is not a match for there, Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there’s dose and rose and lose -- Just look them up -- and goose and choose.
And cork and work and card and ward, And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go，then thwart and cart, Come，come，I’ve hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Why，sakes alive! I’d learned to speak it when I was five.
And yet，to write it，the more I tried, I hadn’t learned it at fifty-five