FabSwingers.com forum: The written word

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

The English language is a funny old thing, like how things are spelt and sounded out, take the word “queue”, it’s spelt with 5 letters but you only pronounce the first one and it’s followed by 4 silent letters?

Can anyone else come up with some oddities?

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By *wisted2000Woman
over a year ago

under my rock cleethorpes

There, their and they’re

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"There, their and they’re "

You mean they are three different words? Holy shit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Your you’re and yore

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

Rough

Dough

Cough

Bough

Hiccough (pronounced hiccup)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good spelling, punctuation and grammar turn me on a little. That's an oddity!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The English language is a funny old thing, like how things are spelt and sounded out, take the word “queue”, it’s spelt with 5 letters but you only pronounce the first one and it’s followed by 4 silent letters?

Can anyone else come up with some oddities?"

And then two of them are repeated...

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"Your you’re and yore

And yaw

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

The word 'Palindrome' isn't a palindrome.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Your you’re and yore

And yaw

Stick a n on the end

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By *lceeWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Silent p’s. Pterodactyl, ptarmigan, pterion. Annoys the heck outta me.

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

I read books, I read books.

2 different tenses.

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By *ighland gentlemanMan
over a year ago

Ardgay

"Good spelling, punctuation and grammar turn me on a little. That's an oddity!

Are you also a fan of syntax?

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"Silent p’s. Pterodactyl, ptarmigan, pterion. Annoys the heck outta me."

It's psychological

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

I asked the maid in dulcet tone,

To order me a buttered scone;

The silly girl has been and gone,

And ordered me a buttered scone.

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By *lighty1Woman
over a year ago

You Dont Need to Know, right now

"Are you also a fan of syntax? "

What??? They're putting a tax on sinning??? I'd better break open my piggy bank

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

The English Language has around 500,000 words in it, whilst French has around 250,000 and German has only about 100,000!!!

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By *aul1973HullMan
over a year ago

East Hull

"The English Language has around 500,000 words in it, whilst French has around 250,000 and German has only about 100,000!!!"

Sanskrit has 96 words for Love.

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By *a Fee VerteWoman
over a year ago

Limbo

"Silent p’s. Pterodactyl, ptarmigan, pterion. Annoys the heck outta me."

English has borrowed a lot of words from other languages, like Greek (I think) in the examples above. Trouble is, certain consonant combinations which can be easily and naturally pronounced in some languages are almost impossible to pronounce by native English speakers ... so they end up trying to pronounce such words the best they can ... which sometimes means dropping a letter in speech but bizarrely, retaining it in the written word.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Your you’re and yore

And yaw

Oh yes!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not mine, but someone did once point out that K seems to fancy N, but hasn't got the guts to speak to her.

Every time K and N appear nest to each other, K shuts the fuck up.

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

"The English Language has around 500,000 words in it, whilst French has around 250,000 and German has only about 100,000!!!

Sanskrit has 96 words for Love."

Inuit has 200 words for snow.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hear, here

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like a schwa too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I like a schwa too

I love a good lazy vowel

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I like a schwa too

I love a good lazy vowel

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By *ighland gentlemanMan
over a year ago

Ardgay

"Silent p’s. Pterodactyl, ptarmigan, pterion. Annoys the heck outta me."

A silent P? As in bath?

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