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05-17-2007, 06:25 AM
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Strange sounding words
I would hate to be from another country and try to learn the English language. Why isn't there an individual spelling for the word, 'read' ? Sometimes it's sounds like, 'reed', and sometimes it sounds like, 'red'. We take so many examples like this for granted, but I think it would be very difficult to teach someone who speaks another primary language to speak our language. If g-o-o-d rhymes with wood, shouldn't f-o-o-d rhyme with them as well?
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05-17-2007, 06:38 AM
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Thats it and thats that
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Virginnie
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My family was having dinner over at SILs house a few weeks ago and her dh was saying how so many people are saying that english is one of the hardest languages to learn for that very same reason. Then we have those words like there, their, and they're.
I just had a hard time in French to tell you the truth... my teacher told me to take French 1 again or try another language and from there it was off to Spanish!  |
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05-17-2007, 07:58 AM
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Location: Oxford, England
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I found English really easy to learn actually. French is much, much harder, the grammar is a killer !  |
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05-17-2007, 06:28 PM
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If you refuse to use your brain
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Location: Heartland
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mood, food, good, hood, wood, rude, dude, nude, lewd, brewed, glued, crewed, sewed, hewed, cued, dewed, hued, queued, sued, suede, you'd, who'd, cooed, wooed, mooed, mewed, stewed, screwed, chewed, and a bunch of others I can't think of right now.
Yeah, English might be a bit confusing. Oh, and don't forget diaphragm.
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05-17-2007, 06:31 PM
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If you refuse to use your brain
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Heartland
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I'll start another one if you want to play:
road, rode,
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05-18-2007, 08:37 AM
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Plus, you drive on the parkway and park on the driveway...
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05-18-2007, 08:44 AM
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Location: mid-Illinois
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We had a German exchange student for a year .... when she got here she spoke perfect "English" language....not American English. It was really hard for her to relearn American English! HA HA HA
I think French was very hard to learn.
Dear and Deer
Bear and Bare
In the word "often", do you pronounce the "t"? My hubby and I argue about this. The dictionary says we are both right. LOL
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05-18-2007, 08:44 AM
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Oooo ... Fancy a cuppa?
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Location: Where the real happy cows reside!
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It's all physcological or is that physical! Hell, I don't know if I even spelled the first one correctly 
Personally I like words like ... rubber baby buggy bumpers  |
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05-18-2007, 08:46 AM
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Oooo ... Fancy a cuppa?
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Join Date: Mar 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by doll lady
We had a German exchange student for a year .... when she got here she spoke perfect "English" language....not American English. It was really hard for her to relearn American English! HA HA HA
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OMG, I can totally relate to Oxford English and American English and I'm from England. Completely threw me for a loop when I landed in the U.S. I still get tongue twied and tisted! |
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05-18-2007, 08:47 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tet tea
It's all physcological or is that physical! Hell, I don't know if I even spelled the first one correctly
Personally I like words like ... rubber baby buggy bumpers |
I cringe when people put an imaginary, 'R', in the word, 'wash'. |
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