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English Is Weird!
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I was brought up bilingual, with English mostly spoken not written until I went to school in the UK at 11. . I still have trouble with these English words that sound the same, but mean something completely different. Pare ,Pear and Pair, Fair (with at least two meanings) and Fare.
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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...
14:37 Thu 27th Aug 2020
these are called homonyms innit?
oh like innit and "in it" - er innit?
and English isnt the only language to have them
a bit of thought - French is full of them - most singulars and plurals - la mere les meres
- verbs - tu jetes, il jete
ils prennent - que je prenne ( subjonctif d'accord)
if you are interested - as your French is obviously good enough I recommend
Cours de linguistique générale by Saussure(*)
You other proles can read it in English
(*) funny thing - two students after his death reconstituted his lectures from three adoring students' notes.
They had asked Muhdarm ( la veuve Saussure ) for her late husbands crib sheets and she said there werent any. No makey, no writey all that sort of stuff
and a hundred years later guess what?
they turned up
The old widow had just NOT wanted to co operate
oh like innit and "in it" - er innit?
and English isnt the only language to have them
a bit of thought - French is full of them - most singulars and plurals - la mere les meres
- verbs - tu jetes, il jete
ils prennent - que je prenne ( subjonctif d'accord)
if you are interested - as your French is obviously good enough I recommend
Cours de linguistique générale by Saussure(*)
You other proles can read it in English
(*) funny thing - two students after his death reconstituted his lectures from three adoring students' notes.
They had asked Muhdarm ( la veuve Saussure ) for her late husbands crib sheets and she said there werent any. No makey, no writey all that sort of stuff
and a hundred years later guess what?
they turned up
The old widow had just NOT wanted to co operate
On your marks, get Set......
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