Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Say the following 4 words to yourself: COUGH THROUGH ROUGH THOUGH Notice that none of them rhyme. But....for some unknown reason, the following 2 words do. PONY BOLOGNA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Pretty sure bologna is Italian, not English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Alpo said: Pretty sure bologna is Italian, not English. Alpo: You are correct sir. In origin yes; however, one which we have adopted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Chinese is much weirder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Angus McPherson Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 When teaching grade school my dad would ask his students how to pronounce GHOTI. The answer, of course, is "Fish". GH from enough O from women TI from nation = Fish Simple, eh? Angus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Having worked with many people that English is their second language the one thing I have always heard is American English is a very hard language to learn due to the strange spellings, as Kit mentioned, and the use of slang and inflection when speaking. Here is an example: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tennessee Trapper Tom Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 We have a primarily an English speaking base, nothing more. Our language is an amalgamation of many languages from the very beginning. As we take on new immigrants we take on food, culture, language, and all their slang. If you spend some time in England you’ll find it to be very different from us due to their cultural growth and change over the years. Instead of referring to our language as english, I would prefer that we speak American. It’s a cultural mix and that’s a good thing. It brings a commonality among different cultures . We are a melting pot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 I always say bologna = bo-loh-na I only use "baloney" to refer to what usually comes out of an anti-gunner's mouth. And yes, Chinese is about as hard to learn as it gets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 WHICH Chinese? Mandarin? Wu? Myu? Cantonese? Or one of the other couple hundred? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 Mandarin wasn’t bad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Tennessee Trapper Tom said: We have a primarily an English speaking base, nothing more. Our language is an amalgamation of many languages from the very beginning. As we take on new immigrants we take on food, culture, language, and all their slang. If you spend some time in England you’ll find it to be very different from us due to their cultural growth and change over the years. Instead of referring to our language as english, I would prefer that we speak American. It’s a cultural mix and that’s a good thing. It brings a commonality among different cultures . We are a melting pot And like most melting pots the dross rises to the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 The Silent Alphabet A as in BREAD B as in DEBT C as in INDICTMENT D as in HANDKERCHIEF E as in GIVE F as in HALFPENNY G as in GNAW H as in HOUR I as in FRIEND J as in MARIJUANA K as in KNOW L as in CALM M as the first M in MNEMONIC N as in AUTUMN O as in PEOPLE P as in PSALM Q as in COLQUHOUN (a Scottish surname) R as in FORECASTLE S as in ISLAND T as in CASTLE U as in GUARD V as in MILNGAVIE (a Scottish place name) W as in WRONG X as in SIOUX Y as in PEPYS Z as in RENDEZVOUS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 On 5/9/2018 at 2:57 PM, Tennessee Trapper Tom said: We have a primarily an English speaking base, nothing more. Our language is an amalgamation of many languages from the very beginning. As we take on new immigrants we take on food, culture, language, and all their slang. If you spend some time in England you’ll find it to be very different from us due to their cultural growth and change over the years. Instead of referring to our language as english, I would prefer that we speak American. It’s a cultural mix and that’s a good thing. It brings a commonality among different cultures . We are a melting pot I once read that English is a language that came about from Norman men-at-arms trying to seduce Saxon barmaids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailrider #896 Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 As Professor "Enry 'Iggins" said about the English language, "In America they haven't spoken it for years!" American regionalisms and dialects sometimes make it hard for Americans from different parts of the country to understand each other! Even city names are pronounced differently in spite of being spelled the same. The city in California is San Jose (San Ho-Zay). But in downstate Illinois, it is San Joze! In Egypt, the city is Cairo (Ky-roe). In Southern Illinois, it's Kay-ro. Des Moines is French in derivation, pronounce De-Moyne. And I still don't pronounce Pueblo, Colorado like the native Coloradans (Pee-yeb-low rather than Pweb-lo, the way I learned in in Chih-caw-go. Toe-may-toe, Toe-mah-to. Let's call the whole thing off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaleWolf Brunelle, #2495L Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Willie Nelson Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 rouGH wOmen acTIon GHOTI or FISH ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 On 5/9/2018 at 5:44 PM, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Mandarin wasn’t bad do like their oranges Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Ranger, 48747L Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 On 5/9/2018 at 4:57 PM, Tennessee Trapper Tom said: We have a primarily an English speaking base, nothing more. Our language is an amalgamation of many languages from the very beginning. As we take on new immigrants we take on food, culture, language, and all their slang. If you spend some time in England you’ll find it to be very different from us due to their cultural growth and change over the years. Instead of referring to our language as english, I would prefer that we speak American. It’s a cultural mix and that’s a good thing. It brings a commonality among different cultures . We are a melting pot that was a term I used in teaching 5th grade history one day director of history comes in and says the correct term is now 'salad:' we're all together but we now keep much of our former culture. I think we've sprinkled too many nuts on the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lorelei Longshot, SASS #44256 Life Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Xerox pronounced zerox is another strange one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted May 11, 2018 Author Share Posted May 11, 2018 Talk about confusing: Most of you will probably find this paragraph easy to read even though the words are not spelled correctly. "Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Willie Nelson Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 That's kinda how I type anyway.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Willie Nelson Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 1 hour ago, Lorelei Longshot, SASS #44256 Life said: Xerox pronounced zerox is another strange one should it be pronounced zeroz? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 English is a Germanic rooted language using a Latin grammar structure, with a LOT of Old and Middle French loan words that has a habit, when faced with a new idea, thing or concept, of appropriating terms from other languages, mangling them to the point of incomprehensibility for ease of pronunciation. Then, there's the fact that standardized spelling rules haven't been around for a whole 2 centuries yet. What's so hard about that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Trail Posted May 11, 2018 Share Posted May 11, 2018 Lead Lead Led Read Read Red Sean Bean - Shouldn't we pronounce his name either: "Shawn Bhawn" or "Seen Been"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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