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TragicMonkey said:
The only firm rule in English is that most of the rules have so many exceptions to them that they might as well not be considered rules at all. This frustrates the speakers of more logical languages. To whom we reply, when they rant about it, "you are looking at the English and expecting logic, and you think we're the crazy ones?"
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It follows rules, as long as you know which particular conqueror of England brought that particular word along with them.
 
AtaraX said:
Learn something new everyday.
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Since we're in a thread about a misspelled word... "everyday" is an adjective for something you encounter often. "Every day" is a phrase meaning all days. You learn something new every day, but you don't always learn everyday things :)
 
Jon the Geek said:
Since we're in a thread about a misspelled word... "everyday" is an adjective for something you encounter often. "Every day" is a phrase meaning all days. You learn something new every day, but you don't always learn everyday things :)
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There, Atarax, you've been spanked. Was it good for you. ;) :)
 
Foolmewunz said:
R-biker: Weird Carp! First, the root is "theism" or "theist", so the pronunciation when you add the prefix is "ay-thee-ist".... Second, I think T.A. knows, for instance that Philanthropist is pronounced phil-an-thro-pist, but was just using it to show the "ist" is a suffix.
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I didn't mean to type "Carp!", my cube neighbor just asked me to identify a fish.
 
Veering a little more away from the topic, I've just been doing a bit of re-arrangin of letters:

'That's i.e.' saith ET. (It hates - this tea - as tithe.)
 
TragicMonkey said:
The only firm rule in English is that most of the rules have so many exceptions to them that they might as well not be considered rules at all. This frustrates the speakers of more logical languages. To whom we reply, when they rant about it, "you are looking at the English and expecting logic, and you think we're the crazy ones?"
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A dutch guy, Dr. Gerald Nolst Trenite (1870-1946), wrote a very fun poem about some inconsistencies in English, especially when it comes to pronunciation.

An excerpt:
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.​

Here's the entire poem, a fun read for everybody - including native speakers - who didn't know that poem, yet.
 
The best way to get under my skin is to misspell "lose" as "loose". I see it every day, and for some reason it really frustrates me. It's a sickness, and I'm seeking treatment.
 
briandunning said:
The best way to get under my skin is to misspell "lose" as "loose". I see it every day, and for some reason it really frustrates me. It's a sickness, and I'm seeking treatment.
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That frustrates me too. I've read so many flame wars where people have called one another 'Looser' rather than 'Loser.'
My spelling and grammar aren't perfect, but the made up word which annoys me more than any other is 'alot.' :mad:
 
I knew someone just one year away from college who could not spell it - would always spell collage - that misspelling annoyed me the most, maybe because the pronunciation is so jarring in one's head. I just wanted to scream at them through the computer.
 
veggie doll said:
That frustrates me too. I've read so many flame wars where people have called one another 'Looser' rather than 'Loser.'
My spelling and grammar aren't perfect, but the made up word which annoys me more than any other is 'alot.' :mad:
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This isn't always in error as looser is what the 'Loose Change' people are called here.

As an aside my favorite examples of the idiocy of the English language is that comb rhymes with dome but not with bomb and dome rhymes with comb but not with come.
 
Ausmerican said:
As an aside my favorite examples of the idiocy of the English language is that comb rhymes with dome but not with bomb and dome rhymes with comb but not with come.
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My biggest gripe (trying to teach my daughter to read):

Tough rhymes with stuff.
Plough rhymes with wow.
Dough rhymes with low.
Through rhymes with you.
Cough rhymes with off.

I look at this and sort of wonder if the national spelling bee isn't a scathing condemnation of our language.
 
The syllable argument earlier in the thread is overlooking.

Theist is one syllable long.
 
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