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

I'm not a grammar snob nor perfect at English myself but has to be said the level of the written word on here has a lot to be desired.

Far too many abbreviations and lack of commas, full stops and capital letters...

Do you think we're all losing the will to spell and form sentences correctly or is it just the symptom of the texted word simplifying things?

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

That last paragraph was intended to be irony, wasn't it?

Seriously though, I view the forums as a sort of pub conversation - mistakes happen, slang is expected, etc.

Messages and profiles however, are less transient and therefore can legitimately be held to a higher standard.

Unless there's a boob pic.

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By *ooking for bbwsCouple
over a year ago

secret garden chilling, always something to do in the garden

"I'm not a grammar snob nor perfect at English myself but has to be said the level of the written word on here has a lot to be desired.

Far too many abbreviations and lack of commas, full stops and capital letters...

Do you think we're all losing the will to spell and form sentences correctly or is it just the symptom of the texted word simplifying things?"

Um for me I use tx speak as it's easier an if u don't like it don't comment on such page!I hate spelling an I'm rubbish at it! But this is not bout spelling an grammar it's bout sex- sexual encounter. Spelling an grammer police out as they av nothing better to do omg

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

I have more important issues to worry about!!

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

Not in the slightest bit bothered by poor spelling or grammar .

We are simply here to have fun

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

.nO

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else

".nO "

ffowohS

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

This has been complained about lots of times before.

Not everyone has perfect spelling and many people are dyslexic

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

".nO

ffowohS"

ys m8!!!

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By *inglehotchickWoman
over a year ago

blackpool

I am guilty of being a member of the grammar police

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By *awandOrderCouple
over a year ago

SW London

I don't care about spelling or punctuation. I can do it all correctly when I chose to, but there isn't a need to do that here ... some people come across as pedantic, detailed, rule bound and the sort who fold their clothes .... doesn't add up to a sense of fun for me. I use it as a filter: if you are so concerned about spelling and grammar, you are not for me

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

It's content that concerns me, not how grammatically correct or correctly spelled it is.

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

I hvae haerd taht if you wirte the coerrct letetrs but not nessaccerily in the rgiht odrer taht msot poelpe raeidng qiukcly hadrly noitce.

Not sure if that's true?

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

I'll save all the correct grammar and punctuation for when I write my 3000 word essays, as that's where it really counts ...

On here, it's not that important, IMO

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

"I hvae haerd taht if you wirte the coerrct letetrs but not nessaccerily in the rgiht odrer taht msot poelpe raeidng qiukcly hadrly noitce.

Not sure if that's true?"

It is

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

"I hvae haerd taht if you wirte the coerrct letetrs but not nessaccerily in the rgiht odrer taht msot poelpe raeidng qiukcly hadrly noitce.

Not sure if that's true?"

Well I read it just fine. Eerie!

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

"I hvae haerd taht if you wirte the coerrct letetrs but not nessaccerily in the rgiht odrer taht msot poelpe raeidng qiukcly hadrly noitce.

Not sure if that's true?"

It is true

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

yes. i've been using the internet about 5 years or something now and i cba to capitalise anything.

i also use txt spk when it's convenient to.

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

"I don't care about spelling or punctuation. I can do it all correctly when I chose to, but there isn't a need to do that here ... some people come across as pedantic, detailed, rule bound and the sort who fold their clothes .... doesn't add up to a sense of fun for me. I use it as a filter: if you are so concerned about spelling and grammar, you are not for me"

^^ This.

While perfect spelling and grammar may seem important to some it's quite trivial in the grand scheme of things.

I tend to get the curse of autocuntrect sometimes but I never proof read my post before I send it as my time is better spent.

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

if we could shove bbcode into text or html then i'd make more effort. slightly more though, like use italics and stuff like that coz i get told off for shouting when i capitalise stuff.

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

We should all understand that some people are simply no good at written English. They are therefore understandably defensive, as you see above, because it is a source of potential embarrassment to them as they appear unable to write gramatically correct English; even if they want to!

With a little effort the reader can however understand what they are saying when they substitute "no" for "know", "there" for "their" and "accept" for "except". Even spelling mistakes and txt spk can be fun, once you work out what the hell they meant to say.

So give them some slack guys; as they should give slack to those who find bad English irritating and frustrating.

Oh, by the way, the British Dyslexia Association estimate that 1 in 10 people have some form of dyslexia. So, unless there is a very high correlation between relaxed sexual morality and dyslexia, most bad spellers in the forum should not claim dyslexia as an excuse.

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

"I'm not a grammar snob nor perfect at English myself but has to be said the level of the written word on here has a lot to be desired.

Far too many abbreviations and lack of commas, full stops and capital letters...

Do you think we're all losing the will to spell and form sentences correctly or is it just the symptom of the texted word simplifying things?

We all have filters to decide who we meet. A well written message that engages will always be responded to. That's how I ended up with my other half, the antithesis of what I was looking for.

However, I don't feel the need to pull people up on their spelling: why make people feel bad?

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

I used to check spelling, grammar and punctuation for a living, so I naturally tend to look for it (I miss mistakes in my own posts often though!).

I only think it matters when there's so many mistakes that profiles become hard to read. Mistakes are easily made when typing online.

If someone asks what's wrong with their profile, I think it's ok to point it out politely, accepting that many struggle with it and some are dyslexic (though having worked with and championed the "rights" of dyslexic people for 20 years, I'm sceptical about a few people claiming to have the condition, sadly).

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

"I'm not a grammar snob nor perfect at English myself but has to be said the level of the written word on here has a lot to be desired.

Far too many abbreviations and lack of commas, full stops and capital letters...

Do you think we're all losing the will to spell and form sentences correctly or is it just the symptom of the texted word simplifying things?"

Wot R U on about M8, it's a sex site for fking people with your pencil not giving them some paper for writing a spelling test XXX

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

Im not sure how someone can make point about punctuation and grammar being perfect, yet miss the comma in their last paragraph....

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

Dont think it really matters to be fair ...it is a sex site ..not open university ...

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

"Dont think it really matters to be fair ...it is a sex site ..not open university ..."

...to you!

Personally, I like to communicate with people I fuck. If I need a Rosetta Stone to decipher the message I lose interest.

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

"I'm not a grammar snob nor perfect at English myself but has to be said the level of the written word on here has a lot to be desired.

Far too many abbreviations and lack of commas, full stops and capital letters...

Do you think we're all losing the will to spell and form sentences correctly or is it just the symptom of the texted word simplifying things?"

It's tragic Op, agree with you 100%

What the fuck is going on in these forums?!?!?

ffs!

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

As someone threat has to look at spelling and grammar all day and is dyslexic.... I can honestly say... if you care about spelling and grammar that much you have not got enough going on in your life

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

Does it matter to me on the forums? No, I'll just skip their posts if I find them difficult to read.

Does it matter to me when I'm arranging a hookup? Yes, it totally does. I really enjoy textual stimulation and poor spelling and 'txt spk' can get in the way of me enjoying that. It's no longer sexy if I have to work hard to translate - unfortunately.

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

"Not in the slightest bit bothered by poor spelling or grammar .

We are simply here to have fun

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Amen!

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

It's not the spelling or grammar per se that puts me off but what they are saying.

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

If you don't like how people spell or talk then move on....simple. This is an adult site not school there are more important things in life than pulling people down cause of there spelling. Grow up! X

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

"If you don't like how people spell or talk then move on....simple. This is an adult site not school there are more important things in life than pulling people down cause of there spelling. Grow up! X"

Its just the old Fab cliché that explains it.

It's their preference to not like those with poor english.

They comment ......... because they can!! (Hands up if you have seen those explanations before)

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

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

I dunno op.

But I. School I enjoyed art. And music. pE was good too.

It starts to feel like school when I read some body correct my posts.

There's only one person in here I'd like to teach me a lesson. And in the FAB tradition - "she knows who she is ".

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By *ath_Neil_bifunCouple
over a year ago

near cardiff

"I'm not a grammar snob nor perfect at English myself but has to be said the level of the written word on here has a lot to be desired.

Far too many abbreviations and lack of commas, full stops and capital letters...

Do you think we're all losing the will to spell and form sentences correctly or is it just the symptom of the texted word simplifying things?"

I ain't boffered 2much bi it 2 b onest. I deafinitlee won't hold it against someone..unless there minging, nd wiv a thaiknee dic

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

"Does it matter to me on the forums? No, I'll just skip their posts if I find them difficult to read.

You've saved me having to compose such a post

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

Not an issue for me, as long as, you can, read, what it, says. 99% of people came here for, a good time, not to be reminded, they, failed, school miserably

Ps. Im, christopher, walken today, and funny,

comma comma comma comma chameleon

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By *laytimenowMan
over a year ago

Essex

1 shood reely not taik ishoe

wif ow a persun speecs on a forum

1 can d-cifer wot 1 is saying

eeze enuff wivout 2 much trubble

!!!!!

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By *iss_tressWoman
over a year ago

London

"Does it matter to me on the forums? No, I'll just skip their posts if I find them difficult to read.

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

The shit I got from the trolls when I raised the spelling issue was a disgrace

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

Some people are bothered by it, some people aren't. I for one am, but ignore it if I see it, whether it's a forum post or message.

It doesn't matter who the man is, what he looks like if he messages me, " hey bbe wuu2 ur pics r gr8" then he's getting deleted! The amount of text talk I've had to google so I understand it, is truly shocking. I rarely used it when I was a teenager, so I'm not going to use it now.

So people are aware, there's a difference between text talk and someone being dyslexic.

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

"Some people are bothered by it, some people aren't. I for one am, but ignore it if I see it, whether it's a forum post or message.

So people are aware, there's a difference between text talk and someone being dyslexic."

Let's hear it for the I ams

. Some people write how they speak - it's an excellent filter for meets but I ignore it in the forum.

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By *andemanMan
over a year ago

bedforshire

Well sorry but I am Dyslexic, with a Masters degree atually, so this is always a challange when no spell checker on the posts.

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

Poor spelling/grammar/text language in the forums doesn't bother me, but if someone messages me with poorly spelt wording etc, especially on a first message where they are trying to get my attention, then I know they aren't for me.

I enjoy mental stimulation as well as great sex. If I have to decipher what they are saying to me, then it takes away the enjoyment.

I appreciate people have dyslexia, and I can tell the difference between dyslexia and bad/lazy spelling and grammar.

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

"I have more important issues to worry about!!"

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By *ice guy 44Man
over a year ago

wrexham

it's a sex site not an exam. see full stop.

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

I took the OP's question to mean in a much broader sense of whether we can be bothered to construct proper sentences when a large proportion of us only ever communicate via a touch screen keyboard?

Is written English a dying art?

Does abbreviation of language lead to abbreviation of thought?

That might be a little too deep for this time of a morning.....

NE1 wanna fuk?

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

"I took the OP's question to mean in a much broader sense of whether we can be bothered to construct proper sentences when a large proportion of us only ever communicate via a touch screen keyboard?

Is written English a dying art?

Does abbreviation of language lead to abbreviation of thought?

That might be a little too deep for this time of a morning.....

NE1 wanna fuk?

Is that the start of a postcode?

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By *ivemeyoursoulWoman
over a year ago

Easter just around the corner!

"The shit I got from the trolls when I raised the spelling issue was a disgrace "

Suppose it's how you critical you are in your op and who starts it of course!

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

"The shit I got from the trolls when I raised the spelling issue was a disgrace "

I would like to know your definition of trolling, as I think it differs from what most people think it is!!

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By *lowercandyWoman
over a year ago

Lancashire

"Does it matter to me on the forums? No, I'll just skip their posts if I find them difficult to read.

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By *herbert fountainWoman
over a year ago

Hanley

"Does it matter to me on the forums? No, I'll just skip their posts if I find them difficult to read.

Totally agree

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

"Does it matter to me on the forums? No, I'll just skip their posts if I find them difficult to read.

This sums it up well

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

"The shit I got from the trolls when I raised the spelling issue was a disgrace

I would like to know your definition of trolling, as I think it differs from what most people think it is!!

Unwanted and negative and not following thread and purposefully being provocative

Taking things out of context

Trying to wind people up

The list goes on Mrs leggy

Can you tick any of those boxes

I think you can

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

its easy too install a spell checker on your pc they all have them .

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

"I'm not a grammar snob nor perfect at English myself but has to be said the level of the written word on here has a lot to be desired.

Far too many abbreviations and lack of commas, full stops and capital letters...

Do you think we're all losing the will to spell and form sentences correctly or is it just the symptom of the texted word simplifying things?"

Dear Sir - hear is me home werk 4td - I wented to d pac 2c T duks n dey wus not palyin so wented T tother plaice n swaed den there

Mark out 10 please

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By *awandOrderCouple
over a year ago

SW London

"The shit I got from the trolls when I raised the spelling issue was a disgrace

I would like to know your definition of trolling, as I think it differs from what most people think it is!!

Unwanted and negative and not following thread and purposefully being provocative

Taking things out of context

Trying to wind people up

The list goes on Mrs leggy

Can you tick any of those boxes

I think you can "

The problem is people read it from their context and make a comment as such. If it is vaguely on topic, then it's relevant. I haven't even red the posts, to be honest .... but this isn't a definition of trolling. That is something much more serious ....

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

Sometimes it's the difference between

Helping your uncle jack off a horse

And

Helping your uncle jack, off a horse.

Grammar has its place I'm sure, but sometimes it's hard on phones

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By *andemanMan
over a year ago

bedforshire

"Poor spelling/grammar/text language in the forums doesn't bother me, but if someone messages me with poorly spelt wording etc, especially on a first message where they are trying to get my attention, then I know they aren't for me.

I enjoy mental stimulation as well as great sex. If I have to decipher what they are saying to me, then it takes away the enjoyment.

I appreciate people have dyslexia, and I can tell the difference between dyslexia and bad/lazy spelling and grammar. "

Many thanks and i do try to get it right, but spend my life focusing on the concept and the idea ahead of the spelling of them.

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By *andemanMan
over a year ago

bedforshire

" its easy too install a spell checker on your pc they all have them .

Yes but will it work in these chatrooms and messages? I also mainly use my phone. I would be happy to use one, however my experience of them (considerable being dyslexic) is that they only help about 70% of the time. Some are set for Amarican English and some sites are set in Amarican English to add to the "fun"!

Advice on one that works in here greatfully recived.

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

The English language is very complex

We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes;

But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.

Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese,

Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,

Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,

Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,

But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.

I speak of my foot and show you my feet,

If I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth, and a whole set are teeth,

Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

If the singular is this and the plural is these,

Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be named kese?

Then one may be that, and three may be those,

Yet the plural of hat would never be hose;

We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,

But though we say mother, we never say methren.

The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,

But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim!

So our English, I think, you all will agree,

Is the craziest language you ever did see.

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?

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word,

That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;

For goodness sake, don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat;

They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there,

Or 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, man alive,

I'd learned to talk it when I was five,

And yet to write it, the more I tried,

I hadn't learned it at fifty-five!

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

" its easy too install a spell checker on your pc they all have them .

Advice on one that works in here greatfully recived."

yeah, if my spellcheck underlines american mispelled words then i'll notice that but maybe overlook some wrongly spelt words also.

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

"The English language is very complex

We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes;

But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.

Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese,

Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,

Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,

Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,

But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.

I speak of my foot and show you my feet,

If I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth, and a whole set are teeth,

Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

If the singular is this and the plural is these,

Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be named kese?

Then one may be that, and three may be those,

Yet the plural of hat would never be hose;

We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,

But though we say mother, we never say methren.

The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,

But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim!

So our English, I think, you all will agree,

Is the craziest language you ever did see.

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?

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word,

That looks like beard and sounds like bird.

And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;

For goodness sake, don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat;

They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.

A moth is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there,

Or 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, man alive,

I'd learned to talk it when I was five,

And yet to write it, the more I tried,

I hadn't learned it at fifty-five! "

I like this

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By *lanemikeMan
over a year ago

Bolton

I take pride in trying to write English correctly. To me it does matter......others may think differently.

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