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[Logan]

Please forgive me, but I laughed out loud.


If it makes you feel any better - I read a lot of books by British authors when I was a kid. I can't remember if this happened in the second or third grade, but we had a spelling test, and my teacher marked mine wrong when I wrote "neighbour," and "favourite."

I took whatever book I was reading at the time, looked through it, then, armed with my proof and the spelling test, I marched up to her desk and told her I thought she was wrong. I had spelled those words correctly, look here...

She briefly looked where I was pointing, flipped my book closed, looked at the author, and brusquely said, "Well, yes, but he's English."

She was not amused when I, in my innocence, said "I thought we were learning English."

 

[alp]

So much happened whilst I nodded falling asleep last night.

@Upsy Daisy I have always stuck with perennials as they save me a packet. Can't really afford to buy annuals seeds or plants. Actually, I have killed quite a few perennials all through the years. Colour in summer can be had by having cornus, some of which have most attractive burnished red stems. I just can't afford the space for them. You have quite a few lovely shrubs and so there are fixtures which will add colour even in the winter. I have had only a handful along the side, which I use as screen.

Spelling is a tricky thing. I always think the English spell favorite without a u.. just as humorous, without another u .. I could be so wrong...

Heating was on this morning, the knocking scared me stiff and I promptly switched the system off.

 

[Logan]

It's confusing when one word has two meanings.

 

[alp]

@Logan This is nothing compared with the 3 sexes in German for nouns and the male and female for nouns in French .. That's why the English is one of the most spoken languages in the world, apart from Chinese and Spanish.

I feel sorry for the German children who have to struggle with long words and the unnecessary gender distinctions. Why would any sensible person tell his/her child that it's WRONG to say le table?! This word has now been outlawed in German

Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz .. ahhhhhhhhhhh ..

 

[Verdun]

Morning everyone
At the beach again earlier but chillier. Still lovely though and another sunny day to come
MaryMary and I wont bicker alp....where did that come from? She has promised to buy me lunch and a couple of plants
Doing some teaching again soon so anything in the garden will be left for the afternoon.
Have a fun day everybody

 

[Logan]

@Logan This is nothing compared with the 3 sexes in German for nouns and the male and female for nouns in French .. That's why the English is one of the most spoken languages in the world, apart from Chinese and Spanish.

I feel sorry for the German children who have to struggle with long words and the unnecessary gender distinctions. Why would any sensible person tell his/her child that it's WRONG to say le table?! This word has now been outlawed in German

Rindfleischetikettierungsueberwachungsaufgabenuebertragungsgesetz .. ahhhhhhhhhhh ..

 

[alp]

Morning everyone
At the beach again earlier but chillier. Still lovely though and another sunny day to come
MaryMary and I wont bicker alp....where did that come from? She has promised to buy me lunch and a couple of plants
Doing some teaching again soon so anything in the garden will be left for the afternoon.
Have a fun day everybody

Correction! You mean a couple of pints!

I reckon all three of us will bicker over the lowest possible offers!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Morning , @MaryMary loved your post made me giggle!

Bit cloudier out there today but should be OK for more leaf sweeping!!

Hubs couldn't speak a word of English when he came over to do his PHD......and even now he often asks me about certain words, their meanings and spellings. But all in all his English is brilliant, especially as didn't have to write in words as such ,more numerals and abbreviations as his subject was pure maths. I even ask him now how to spell some English words!!!!Hats off to him and everyone who is bilingual......I have recently started to learn French.....again!!...but I'm not much good

Have a Tutesweet Tuesday!.......is there such a word? Was it in a song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.....or am I going mad?........no don't answer that last bit!

 

[alp]

@Upsy Daisy I have been learning French again, again and again .. La table is actually French ..

Your hubby is a clever man!

Just tell you why the EU want us to stay .. they might have to converse in French (ouch .. ) or German (ouch ..).. or English?

Have visitor today .. So trying to make a semblance of tidiness (ah, what does that word mean?) LOL!

 

[MaryMary]

MaryMary and I wont bicker alp....where did that come from? She has promised to buy me lunch and a couple of plants

I said What?!!

Correction! You mean a couple of pints!

Ah, yes, that was it! Verdun, you must have heard me wrong.

I reckon all three of us will bicker over the lowest possible offers!

The three of us would make a formidable team. Shopkeepers would tremble before us!!

 

[MaryMary]

Hubs couldn't speak a word of English when he came over to do his PHD......and even now he often asks me about certain words, their meanings and spellings.

It's the nuances that I think that would be the hardest to get. The feel of the words. "Sleepy" is different from "tired," and both are different from "weary." And then there's the slang. "I worked hard today, I am beat." They're all the same thing...but somehow not the same.

Have a Tutesweet Tuesday!.......is there such a word? Was it in a song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.....or am I going mad?........no don't answer that last bit!

Toot Sweets!!

Which, at least over here, "toot sweet" has taken on the meaning of things happening quickly. "I want that done, and I mean toot sweet!"

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Ah .......my sanity has been saved........thanks @MaryMary

I'll be singing it all evening now.....much to everyone 's annoyance

 

[alp]

The three of us would make a formidable team. Shopkeepers would tremble before us!!

I think they would close up shops ..

 

[alp]

It's the nuances that I think that would be the hardest to get. The feel of the words. "Sleepy" is different from "tired," and both are different from "weary." And then there's the slang. "I worked hard today, I am beat." They're all the same thing...but somehow not the same.





Toot Sweets!!

Which, at least over here, "toot sweet" has taken on the meaning of things happening quickly. "I want that done, and I mean toot sweet!"

toot sweet is French ish ... I like that... that makes me cackle .. Tout suite .. Haha .. love the clever and cunning in the phoneticisation ??

 

[Verdun]

Ha ha, must have been alp who promised me that
Not a "bickerer" though.......say my piece and move on. Life is too short to bicker
Busy when I got back this afternoon.......moved large helenium, divided large cream phormium and planted and more.
Delightful day weatherwise.....warm, sunny, dry and pleasant. Chillier tonight though