Idle Thoughts ?

[SparklyKid]

Why does recipe not rhyme with recite. Why is rhyme not spelt like time. Why is there an "F" in elephant. Hundreds more, bough,bow,cough,cow.

[-Talbot-]

Are you missing 'Another-View'?

[fiction-factory]

Sew watt?

[choux]

Ephphalumps are ophten fotografed
A giraphphe has an ephphing long neck
Fosforous is phound in phlares and phertilisers
Filatelists have stamped out a phorm of phinancial investment
Filharmonic orchestras should have a phlugelhorn
However, sheferds never watched their phlox by night

btw, rhyme is spelt similarly to thyme ;)

I suspect the little idiosyncrasies of our beloved mother tongue are there to help our European neighbours learn our language more easily.

[douglas9401]

David Frost once said 'There's no rime or reason'.

Cool.

[elliemay1]

This may be of interest to you, Sparkly:

http://spellingsociety.org/uploaded_misc/poems-online-misc-1419940069.pdf

[roopower]

I always though it's because our words come from so many different languages

[Peter Pedant]

read any book like
History of our language

English where did it come from and where is it going?

Historical linguistics - doesnt pay the rent but is quite interesting

[Peter Pedant]

Pomes I liked

The poet euripides
is an old sobersides
His greatest play Andromache
doesnt make your ribs ache

[Prudie]

Why are overalls overalls but coveralls cuvveralls?

[andy-hughes]

It's language - that's how it works.

[retrocop]

One of the Two Fat Ladies ( Jennifer Paterson) always said, "You will find the 'resseep' on our website.

[choux]

Retro, JP pronounced recipe as 'receipt'.

[maggiebee]

Spelling Checker

I have a spelling chequer,
It came with my pea see.
It plane lee marques for my revue
Miss steaks eye cannot see.

Each thyme when eye have struck the quays
I weight for it to say
If watt I rote is wrong or rite;
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a miss take is maid
It nose be four two late,
and I can put the err or write
As this rime demon straights.

I’ve run this poem threw it;
I’m shore your policed to no
It’s letter perfect in its weigh;
My chequer tolled me sew.

[Theland]

Plenty of time on your hands?

[Mamyalynne]

Receipt

Def
ARCHAIC
a recipe.
"she spent hours in the kitchen, trying all sorts of receipts"


I know at least two people who still use that way of saying it.

[tonyav]

So should I ask for a recipe next time I'm at a till in a shop, I'm sure the girls on the checkouts have many.

[Mamyalynne]

I don't think it works the other way round Tony, but who can tell.

[tonyav]

I'll try it tomorrow ;-)

[retrocop]

//Retro, JP pronounced recipe as 'receipt'.//
OK. Little difference how I spelt her pronounciation.
Most people in my company pronounce recipe as 'ressippy'.

[Mamyalynne]

As above, it isn't a pronunciation issue - rather the use of an archaic term.