General Chat

Would not a bone - become a bon?

and a throne - a thron? :-D :-D

sorry, couldn't resist :-)

Guinevere this just came to mind lol

"“FRANK: Do you know Yeats?
RITA: The wine lodge?
FRANK: No, WB Yeats, the poet.
RITA: No.
FRANK: Well, in his poem 'The Wild Swans At Coole',Yeats rhymes the word "swan" with the word "stone". You see? That's an example of assonance.
RITA: Yeah, means getting the rhyme wrong.”
Willy Russell, Educating Rita

:-) I never see the word candelabra ( well you don't these days lol) without thinking about my mum's way of saying it, also 'cactus' which always came out as 'catcus' :-D

:-D exactly Tec lol, I was told the 'e' at the end modifies the sound of the 'o'.

btw i was down in your area Sat/Sun, just overnight on a flying visit to my friend and had a very nice scone there, with real cream in it :-D

When something has gone should we say goan, Tec?

I love that play, Rose.

We don't have these problems with the Welsh language :-D

Glad that you enjoyed you scone Rose :-)

Now I must be goan to make dinner :-D

Around here, it's 'Gorn' :-D


,,,,and I say 'scon'

otherwise wouldn't it be sc one (as in the number)

Tecwyn - nothing better than listening to the Welsh 'talking tidy'.

I must dig out John Edwards' tape of Wenglish. Very funny!

Dermot - I always try to "talk tidy" in English or Welsh :-D

I have not heard the John Edwards Wenglish tape.

Tec :-)

so were dus this leve me

and i dident use spell check :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

We English squabble often about our language; please do note: it's 'We English'.

Remember, in our fair language, Ghoti spells fish :-D

'gh' from enough
'o' from women
'ti' ftom nation

Guinevere, dictionaries are servants, not masters. They reflect usage. If the way we use our language changes then so eventually must the dictionary. The home counties are not the yard stick for the rest of us.

‘Let us maintain the dignity of our language far above the base & dishonest buffooneries of mob eloquence’.

NOW I IS CONFUSED

I couldn't agree more, Denis. I don't live in the home counties, though.

There would be little point in having grammar at all or examinations in English Language if people could just do what they liked with it.

The failure of some schools in recent times to give pupils a good grounding in grammar & punctuation leads to mistakes often being made unwittingly.

The 'apostrophe' has become unfashionable in some areas. A District Council in mid-Devon wants to ban them entirely from street signs to reduce potential confusion.

I'm totally confused about their decision.

I still haven't forgiven Waterstone's decision to become Waterstones.

The apostrophe is an endangered species and should be cherished.

do you remember Wolfie?

Power to the people!!!

and his mum(I think, or was it gran?) and her Michaelwave

China is experiencing a writing problem too.

The rapid rise of computers & smartphones has left hordes of youngsters barely able to write by hand. And many are unable to recall the estimated 10K characters used in daily life without resorting to electronic prompts.

Ken wit ah wis oot the other dae wi ma pals an wun said this is pure ded brilliant init.