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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Brits say these words wrong! |
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An elderly gentleman is a "geezer" (prounced "geezer").
Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park is pronounced "GUY-zer" or "GUY-ser". |
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Forum: School and College Life Topic: Why do NT Males Hoot Like Gibbons? |
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| Can you explain that because I have no idea what you mean? It sounds interesting though. If "breeding" individuals grew antlers, or a showy fan of tail feathers. It's impossible for Humans to do so, of course, (though some of our "relatives" do have a certain... um lost word aga... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Brits say these words wrong! |
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| "Maths" looks and sounds odd to us Americans. But Americans say ceramics, linguistics, electronics, ballistics, statistics, physics, to name a few fields of endeavor that dont have any obvious need to be plural. So both sides of the Atlantic are being a bit arbitrary in their choice on that. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Saudies and Iran to form "joint navy"? |
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| Yeah. The Saudies have been playing four dimensional chess for a long time. Being our loyal friends...while funding militant schools in Pakistan and allowing (even bankrolling) its citizens to ...hijack airliners to fly into our buildings. On that map both parties to this naval marriage look to be a... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Brits say these words wrong! |
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Posted: Yesterday, 5:03 pm
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How do Brits pronounce the other words on the list?
In the US there is divide between the literate and the illiterate when saying "Byzantine".
The educated say "biz-AN-TEEN". The illiterate say "uhhhhh....BUY...uhhhh...ZAN-teen".  |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Brits say these words wrong! |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:43 pm
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mrpieceofwork wrote: I didn't add aluminium bc it's a different spelling. Then, scones... I've heard more than 1 person saying "SKONS" as opposed to "SKOWNS" like it's said over here.
Didnt realize that the Brits also MISPELLED aluminum too! |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Preachers to Stand Up to Christian Nationalists. |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:33 pm
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| I know Umberto Eco primarily as a writer of fictional murder mysteries set in the Middle Ages. Like "the Name of the Rose". |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Brits say these words wrong! |
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Posted: Yesterday, 3:30 pm
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| You forgot "aluminum". :lol: Not sure about everything on your list though. "Scones"? The Brits are the ONLY people in the Universe who ever utter that word. So how can they be wrong in how they say it? Lol! We americans have a completely different word for what the Brits call &q... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Saudies and Iran to form "joint navy"? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 1:04 pm
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| Supposedly Iran (and its allies) and the Saudies and its allies have secretly agreed merge their navies to guard the Persian Gulf (to boot the US out?). Only Iran has confirmed this. Iran and the Saudies forming a joint navy would be like Biden and Putin agreeing to create a joint US-Russian army. I... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Who's Your Favourite WP Member? |
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Posted: Yesterday, 8:26 am
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IsabellaLinton wrote: I think he's run off with Raleigh.
Or hopped a freight train to parts unknown. |
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Forum: Art, Writing, and Music Topic: Misheard Song Lyrics |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:33 am
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| A friend of mine always used to think a line of the chorus was "Mosquitos and Potatoes" in Smells Like Teen Spirit. With the lights out, it's less dangerous <--- Maybe Here we are now, entertain us I feel stupid and contagious <--- or this one maybe? Here we are now, entertain us A mulatt... |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Now I'm a Sea Gull... |
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Posted: Yesterday, 6:05 am
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CockneyRebel wrote: I hated being a tufted titmouse. I thought it was a female mouse with huge tits.
Tufted titmice, or "titmouses"?, are cute little sparrow sized birdies with top notches (like what cardinals and bluejays have). |
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Forum: Random Discussion Topic: Sell everything and buy one vain item, what is it? |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 8:52 pm
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Some of us dont have much wordly stuff to sell.
Better way to set up the question would be something along the lines of...what if some one GAVE you a million dollars, but you HAD to blow it all on one luxury thing. What would it be?
Something like that. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: China defends buzzing American warship in Taiwan Strait |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 8:46 pm
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| Lessee... The battleship U.S.S. Maine accidentally exploded in Havanna harbor, and that triggered the Spanish American War. Then in 1916 the German U boat sank the British ocean liner Lusitania drowning 1100 people including 100 Americans rivaling the Titanic. That helped pull the US into the First ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Preachers to Stand Up to Christian Nationalists. |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 6:52 pm
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| Totalitarianism - with state control of the means of production, and an ideology of class warfare, is Communism. Totalitariansim- that retains private property over the means of production, and built upon an ideology, of nationalism, or racism, or religion, militarism, would be fascism. The temptati... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Nikki Haley announces 2024 presidential bid |
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Posted: 05 Jun 2023, 6:35 pm
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| She will surely be denounced as a traitor to Trump. And, she isn't exactly White enough for the Repugs' White Nationalist base. And she is not a dude. Plenty of antidotal evidence Hope this is just a typo. The term is "anectodal evidence". Not "antidotal evidence". :) Evidence b... |
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