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I was thinking of the old "How do you pronounce ghoti?
The answer is of course fish, as in
trough
women
options
Then I was reminded of a poem that you may or may not know that shows some of the peculiarities of the English language... I googled and found it
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English is Easy!
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 whole lot of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
When couldn'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.
And I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet,
But I give 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 plural is these,
Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be called 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 will all agree,
Is the trickiest 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.
And dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's close 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!

Anyone know any more?
How come when you've finished building a structure, it's still called a building and not a built?
Why do they put up a sign saying "road works" when a road doesn't work?
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Why do they put up a sign saying "road works" when a road doesn't work?

And there's nobody there working on fixing it so that it does work anyway... :dry:
Sign on poster outside theatre:
Macbeth pronounced success
Exit left three very confused foreign language students lol
I must be either very sad or very dedicated - i just copied that to put on my literacy display in my classroom confused
Bev
We park on the driveway and vice versa.
Sit up and sit down mean exactly the same thing.
Your alarm clock is off until goes off, at which point it's on - once it's gone off it stays on until you turn it off and then it stays off until it goes off again.
Cricket - You mostly stay indoors when your team is in, which seems reasonable enough, but when it's your turn to be in you go outside. And you stay out for as long as you're in until you get out, when you go back inside. loon
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Ice i have a headache now rolleyes

Story of my life. I don't need to take condoms on a date, just paracetomol. confused
Ice I have a cure for my headache..........
SEX
lol :lol: wink
And why is it called a boxing ring when it's square?
Mike.
"Blowjob"
What's that all about? I mean I know I look like a beachball...
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Sit up and sit down mean exactly the same thing.

Dearest Frederick,
I beg to differ... If my mother tells me to sit down then I park my bum on a chair... if she tells me to sit up then she is telling me to sit erect in my chair and not slouch... subtle difference... perhaps too subtle for you... smile
Yours sincerely,
Clarissa
lol
ROFL Wibbly, you beat me to it - although I'm not sure I would have felt comfortable posting what might be construed as an attack on an incumbent pendant :eek: /me waves cheerily at Ice Pie then goes to get a spade to unhole himself bolt
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unhole

Is that a real word?
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unhole

Is that a real word?
dunno ;)