OT - Gaol
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DonDaddyD wrote:sarajoy wrote:
Don't prod him, please.Wallace1492 wrote:DonDaddyD wrote:I prefer prison.
After the female commando poll, you may get your preference!!! :P
That's unnecessary.
But anyway
Which is preferred Gaol or Jail.
Up here the local (prison) is called The Big Hoose."Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"0 -
Gaol. I like how it's a G followed by an A that's soft - I'm trying to think of others, but the only ones I can think of are followed by a consonant - judgment, ridgway.
The correct way to pronounce "oregano" is, of course the Italian way: o-REG-ano.0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:sarajoy wrote:
Don't prod him, please.Wallace1492 wrote:DonDaddyD wrote:I prefer prison.
After the female commando poll, you may get your preference!!! :P
That's unnecessary.
But anyway
Which is preferred Gaol or Jail.
I think I prefer jail - gaol is such a strange looking word to me that I sort of stand back and wonder what it means and the normal pronunciation of words beginning with 'ga...' produces a hard 'g'. Besides, even the French have changed their spelling from Old French (gaole) to 'geôle' so I don't see why we should have to stick to a now redundant spelling.0 -
Wierdly, I think Gaol should be spent Gail..... :shock:Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
Have you BEEN to Glasgow?biondino wrote:Wallace, why on earth do you hate a dialect? How's it your problem?
Rab C Nesbit was a documentary, not a comedy, you know. FACT.0 -
deptfordmarmoset wrote:DonDaddyD wrote:sarajoy wrote:
Don't prod him, please.Wallace1492 wrote:DonDaddyD wrote:I prefer prison.
After the female commando poll, you may get your preference!!! :P
That's unnecessary.
But anyway
Which is preferred Gaol or Jail.
I think I prefer jail - gaol is such a strange looking word to me that I sort of stand back and wonder what it means and the normal pronunciation of words beginning with 'ga...' produces a hard 'g'. Besides, even the French have changed their spelling from Old French (gaole) to 'geôle' so I don't see why we should have to stick to a now redundant spelling.
Even Monopoly cannot make up its mind which one is right..."Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"0 -
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sarajoy wrote:
My students in Italy used to love that one.0 -
Sewinman wrote:Kew-bridge wot! mofo! Kew-bridge rules and run tings! Tings nah run we! Kew Bridge-wot!
:shock:Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:Sewinman wrote:Kew-bridge wot! mofo! Kew-bridge rules and run tings! Tings nah run we! Kew Bridge-wot!
:shock:
Why is that man squinting? Has he misplaced his spectacles?
And it's rather rude to do a double "up yours" at a camera, even if it is combined with a "thumbs up". Some people's manners...0 -
rhext wrote:Greg66 wrote:Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!.
Got a nasty feeling that Aluminum is the Old English spelling too!
Not since 1812: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=aluminum0 -
Greg66 wrote:DonDaddyD wrote:Sewinman wrote:Kew-bridge wot! mofo! Kew-bridge rules and run tings! Tings nah run we! Kew Bridge-wot!
:shock:
Why is that man squinting? Has he misplaced his spectacles?
And it's rather rude to do a double "up yours" at a camera, even if it is combined with a "thumbs up". Some people's manners...
That's Sewinman in his mispent youth tearing it on the streets of Kew-bridge where he once tagged a wall 'Kew-bridge' in Kew (I think)....Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
Greg66 wrote:Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!.
Meeeeer.
I also hate their adoption of such non-words as 'burglarized' (burgled) or 'weaponized' (armed).0 -
And serves me right for not reading the rest of the thread before posting....
....but big thanks to Sarajoy for the Ghoti link. Been looking for that one for years ever since it was explained to me in University, and I then forgot how to get the 'i'.0 -
And don't get me started on 'visit with', or the wholesale conversion of nouns to verbs!0
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lost_in_thought wrote:Greg66 wrote:Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!.
Meeeeer.
I also hate their adoption of such non-words as 'burglarized' (burgled) or 'weaponized' (armed).
Aye. Like "medaled" (earned a medal). And the verb "apres", being something done post-skiing.0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:Greg66 wrote:Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!.
Meeeeer.
I also hate their adoption of such non-words as 'burglarized' (burgled) or 'weaponized' (armed).
I'm sure I read in a Mills and Boon once:
"I stood before the bed, my girlfriend drapped across it. She looked onward, wanton and waiting, eagerly, for my weaponized self to burglarize her very existence....."
What? Too much?Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Greg66 wrote:Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!.
Meeeeer.
I also hate their adoption of such non-words as 'burglarized' (burgled) or 'weaponized' (armed).
I'm sure I read in a Mills and Boon once:
"I stood before the bed, my girlfriend drapped across it. She looked onward, wanton and waiting, eagerly, for my weaponized self to burglarize her very existence....."
What? Too much?
Are you sure about the burglarize?.....not something similar?0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:Greg66 wrote:DonDaddyD wrote:Sewinman wrote:Kew-bridge wot! mofo! Kew-bridge rules and run tings! Tings nah run we! Kew Bridge-wot!
:shock:
Why is that man squinting? Has he misplaced his spectacles?
And it's rather rude to do a double "up yours" at a camera, even if it is combined with a "thumbs up". Some people's manners...
That's Sewinman in his mispent youth tearing it on the streets of Kew-bridge where he once tagged a wall 'Kew-bridge' in Kew (I think)....
No, no -he tagged the station Kew York!!0 -
DonDaddyD wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:Greg66 wrote:Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!.
Meeeeer.
I also hate their adoption of such non-words as 'burglarized' (burgled) or 'weaponized' (armed).
I'm sure I read in a Mills and Boon once:
"I stood before the bed, my girlfriend drapped across it. She looked onward, wanton and waiting, eagerly, for my weaponized self to burglarize her very existence....."
What? Too much?
I don't know why, but DDD & Mills and Boon is not a combination I can easily see
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There're certain types in the UK (clue: find the Watford Gap on a map, then look south from there) who have an even more irritating pronounciation of certain words than the Yanks. C'mon, guys, it's "grass" not "graarse", "bath" not "baarth". And my (southern softie) mother-in-law has the audacity to take the mickey out of my accent ... :? Frankly, if she heard some of the people I grew up with say "book", "cook", and even "water" she would struggle to recognise it as English at all. Regularise the spelling of them!
(Oh, yeah - back on topic: "yog-hurt" or "yo-gurt"; "herbs" or "'erbs"; "vit-a-mins" or "vi-ta-mins"; "nu-clear" or "nu-cu-lar"?)Never be tempted to race against a Barclays Cycle Hire bike. If you do, there are only two outcomes. Of these, by far the better is that you now have the scalp of a Boris Bike.0 -
The Hundredth Idiot wrote:There're certain types in the UK (clue: find the Watford Gap on a map, then look south from there) who have an even more irritating pronounciation of certain words than the Yanks. C'mon, guys, it's "grass" not "graarse", "bath" not "baarth". And my (southern softie) mother-in-law has the audacity to take the mickey out of my accent ... :? Frankly, if she heard some of the people I grew up with say "book", "cook", and even "water" she would struggle to recognise it as English at all. Regularise the spelling of them!
(Oh, yeah - back on topic: "yog-hurt" or "yo-gurt"; "herbs" or "'erbs"; "vit-a-mins" or "vi-ta-mins"; "nu-clear" or "nu-cu-lar"?)
Well, if you're from the North, frankly, you ought to expect it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn3_bYcAnWI
I mean really.0 -
Kieran_Burns wrote:The one that drives me nuts is: "He was hung"
NO!!!
It is "He was HANGED"
muttermuttermutter
Unless you are referring to Il Duce.0 -
Kieran_Burns wrote:The one that drives me nuts is: "He was hung"
NO!!!
It is "He was HANGED"
muttermuttermutter
Aye but lob the cadaver in a Gibbet afterwards and he'll have been hanged then hung.
It all went downhill when they stopped referring to it as Penal Servitude.0 -
Reading this thread was as boring as a week in the gaol.
(From Northern Old French gaole (modern French geôle), from gabiola, a popular diminutive of Latin cavea (“‘cage’”).)If i aint riding it, then im thinking about riding it.0
