The English Language!?!

[Paul Cleaver]

George Bernard Shaw suggested that fish be spelt 'ghoti'.

 

gh as is laugh, o as is in women, and ti as in station.

 

sacrebleu:001_smile:

[WeeDee]

sacrebleu:001_smile:

 

Another well-known English word of exclamation.

[NFG]

Hmm,

 

Makes French seem quite straight forward, after all a lot of English words ie those ending ion are the same. If I forget a word I just say it like the gendarme in 'allo allo' & usually not far off or they correct me!

 

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[Stubby]

I just pharted ....

[Eddy_t]

Goose is geese

What's the plural of mongoose?

 

 

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[s.varty]

Goose is geese

What's the plural of mongoose?

 

 

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Gotta be mongooses.. ?

[Eddy_t]

Gotta be mongooses.. ?

 

Yup, seems strange, you'd have thought the logical plural would be mongeese

 

 

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[s.varty]

Yup, seems strange, you'd have thought the logical plural would be mongeese

 

 

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You gotta be stupid to understand the English language, and it was the only subject I was good at school, not sure if that's something to be proud of or not??

[WeeDee]

You gotta be stupid to understand the English language, and it was the only subject I was good at school, not sure if that's something to be proud of or not??

 

I reckon it is - in the same way one might be proud of solving cryptic crosswords!

[Arbtech Tree Services]

Of all the words to spell strangely................PHONETIC