Wierd words of the English language thread.........

[JoLLyRoGer]

For instance...

How in the world do we get (kûr'-nel) out of colonel?? Looks like it should be pronounced (cô'-lô-nôl)


Whoops...Innocent typo

 

[fatbaby]

wednesday

 

[Infos]

jollyroger

one word spellcheck

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

ROTFLMAO!!!! Great link!!

Thanks for the laugh!!!

 

[AreaCode707]

"The pluarl of box is boxes, not boxen
But the plural of ox is not oxes but oxen.
More than one goose is not gooses but geese,
So why can't a number of moose be called meese?
More than one mouse is mice and not mouses,
Yet the plural of die is still dice and not douses.
If the plural of man is invariably men,
Why shouldn't a number of pans be called pen?
If one is a tooth and the rest of them teeth,
It's a wonder the plural of booth is not beeth.
If I speak of a foot and you show me two feet,
You'll be ready to put on your boots, not your beet.
The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim
So English, I reckon, you all will agree,
Is the funniest language you ever did see!"

I'm glad I started with English as a first language cause it seems near impossible to learn as a second.

 

[Jfur]

bilbo

 

[pulse8]

weird

 

[GhettoFob]

I always wondered about Kansas and Arkansas.

 

[Stifko]

Platapus always struke me as a funny name. Did I spell that rite?

 

[gopunk]

<< Platapus always struke me as a funny name. Did I spell that rite? >>



platypus


svelte

 

[Logix]

percolate

syzygy

 

[AreaCode707]

genre

 

[yakko]

Phone instead of fone or face instead of phace.

 

[yobarman]

Jubblies.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

<< "The pluarl of box is boxes, not boxen
But the plural of ox is not oxes but oxen.
More than one goose is not gooses but geese,
So why can't a number of moose be called meese?
More than one mouse is mice and not mouses,
Yet the plural of die is still dice and not douses.
If the plural of man is invariably men,
Why shouldn't a number of pans be called pen?
If one is a tooth and the rest of them teeth,
It's a wonder the plural of booth is not beeth.
If I speak of a foot and you show me two feet,
You'll be ready to put on your boots, not your beet.
The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim
So English, I reckon, you all will agree,
Is the funniest language you ever did see!"

I'm glad I started with English as a first language cause it seems near impossible to learn as a second. >>



English is relatively easy to learn. If you want a hard to learn language, try Dutch. Dutch is my primary language, English my secondary btw. English has rules. Dutch consists mostly of exceptions to rules.

P.S. In Dutch colonel is written kolonel, and pronounced the way it's written.

 

[Elledan]

<< English has rules. Dutch consists mostly of exceptions to rules. >>

So true

 

[Mani]

doubt

Can't think of any other english word with a silent b...

 

[Nemesis77]

I love finnish, every word is pronounced exactly how they are spelled. There are no confusion on how words should be spelled/pronounced.

 

[Kadarin]

English is quite strange..

You can plan a table, or table a plan. Not only that, but absolutely any word in the English language can be verbed.

 

[xirtam]

bathroom

 

[mattyrug]

Flame Suit on!
neffing
J/K

 

[Marshy]

Climbing?

 

[ed21x]

omphaloskepsis: contemplation upon the navel =P

murder: a group of crows

merkin: ???

 

[Haircut]

One of the most inappropriate words ever has to be: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Which is a fear of long words.

 

[Kadarin]

Lavabo.