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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 9.7
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person Donald Trumps chooses to represent him on television
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
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JonF Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 6174 Joined: |
Moron taunts grannies protesting peacefully, then uses the N-word... to the photojournalist. using a large camera to record the incident.
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Dr Adequate Member Posts: 16113 Joined:
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More on Pierson here.
Also I myself in the course of my research have discovered something much more damaging to her credibility. Apparently she's a Trump supporter.
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Dr Adequate Member Posts: 16113 Joined:
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I am not sure what is right but it seems to me that, maybe, since "pus" has one "s" maybe purulent should be pusy with one "s". Really, purulent should be purulent. Pus has a classical root, after all: we don't go about saying tripody for tripedal or automatony for automatic or absorby for absorbent.
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Rrhain Member (Idle past 261 days) Posts: 6351 From: San Diego, CA, USA Joined: |
NosyNed writes:
quote: There are a couple things going on here. The rules of English regarding the relationship between pronunciation and spelling (and for simplicity's sake, I'm restricting myself to single syllable words) is such that if it ends with a vowel and a single consonant, the vowel is short: cop (a police officer)rap (a short strike upon a surface) In order to get a long vowel sound, you add a silent-e to the end: cope (to handle a situation)rape (to engage in sexual activity against someone's will) When you attach a suffix to these words, the rule is that if it ends with a consonant and the vowel is short, you double the final letter: cop + -ing => copping (to admit to)rap + -ing => rapping (to repeated strike a surface) This is because when you add an ending to a word that ends with silent-e to the end, you drop the silent-e, leave the final consonant alone, and then add the ending: cope + -ing => coping (to be handling a situation)rape + -ing raping (to be engaging in sexual activity with someone against their will) There's an employment agency, "Jobing.com," that always annoys me when I see it: It should be spelled, "Jobbing.com." I don't know what "jobe-ing" is." If the word has more than one consonant at the end, you don't touch them but simply tack on the suffix: fall + -ing => fallingbless + -ing => blessing So with "pus," to add a suffix to it, you would typically double the s and add the suffix: pus + -y => pussy This has the same short "u" sound as the original "pus." The problem, of course, is that we have another word that uses the short "oo" sound that is written with a "u": puss. We can't spell it "pus" because with the consonant-vowel-consonant construction, that is pronounced with a short "u." In order to indicate that it is pronounced with a different vowel sound, the spelling is different: "puss" with a doubled s. So if we want to add -y to the end, you leave the consonants alone because there is more than one: puss + -y => pussy This has the same short "oo" sound as the original "puss." And thus, we end up with two words that are spelled the same due to following standard rules of English but are pronounced differently. Context will let you know if you are referring to putrescence or something related to weakness or cats. [Note: Yes, I know. It's English and thus there are any number of exceptions to the rules.]Rrhain Thank you for your submission to Science. Your paper was reviewed by a jury of seventh graders so that they could look for balance and to allow them to make up their own minds. We are sorry to say that they found your paper "bogus," specifically describing the section on the laboratory work "boring." We regret that we will be unable to publish your work at this time. Minds are like parachutes. Just because you've lost yours doesn't mean you can use mine.
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jar Member (Idle past 93 days) Posts: 34140 From: Texas!! Joined: |
I'd still much rather sit next to any homosexual than him. In fact, I'd rather not sit where he sat until someone has done a through clean and wipe.
Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1278 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
That's kus yor a forinner. In the following there are little blue symbols like a speaker. Hit them and hear the difference between 1 and 2. Here. But it's OK to pronounce them the same if that's your social norm. Kinda like pussy poop in a cat box and an English poop in the Vatican. I'm actually fascinated to discover that American English distinguishes these two sounds - I never knew that. In British English they wouldn't be considered separate sounds. Not that we don't hear the difference, but which 'u' sound you use depends on where you grew up rather than which word you're trying to say.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4597 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 9.7 |
Domestic Terrorists Seize Federal Facility In Oregon
and another link
What's Happening in Oregon Is Nothing Less Than Armed Sedition Edited by Tanypteryx, : added a linkWhat if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy |
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ringo Member (Idle past 666 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined:
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caffeine writes:
And yet "British English" itself doesn't have universal pronunciation standards. "Mom" , pronounced "mawm" in the US, is often pronounced "mum" in Britain (and spelled that way too) but it can also be pronounced "Moom" (rhymes with "book"). "Book" can be pronounced "booook" (rhymes with the Canadian "tuque", which in the US is pronounced "hat". )
In British English they wouldn't be considered separate sounds.
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Dr Adequate Member Posts: 16113 Joined: |
I'm actually fascinated to discover that American English distinguishes these two sounds - I never knew that. In British English they wouldn't be considered separate sounds. Not that we don't hear the difference, but which 'u' sound you use depends on where you grew up rather than which word you're trying to say. I'm fairly sure that whereas Northerners may conflate ʌ and ʊ into ʊ, no-one conflates them into ʌ.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1278 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
And yet "British English" itself doesn't have universal pronunciation standards. "Mom" , pronounced "mawm" in the US, is often pronounced "mum" in Britain (and spelled that way too) but it can also be pronounced "Moom" (rhymes with "book"). But that's just what I said - in the north of England it's pronounced 'mum' (which you spell 'moom' because of the silly way you think 'u' should be pronounced); whereas in the south it's pronounced the way you think 'mum' should sound.
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caffeine Member (Idle past 1278 days) Posts: 1800 From: Prague, Czech Republic Joined: |
I'm fairly sure that whereas Northerners may conflate ʌ and ʊ into ʊ, no-one conflates them into ʌ. I was about to argue, but then I thought about how a southerner would say 'book' and realised that I didn't think this one through!
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Tangle Member Posts: 9580 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 6.6 |
Mum is mum is mum. (Except when is doesn't mater ;-)
I'd sort of accept maybe a shortening of the 'u' and exageration of the 'm' for a northerner - mumm - just, but I doubt a Canadian would notice. But book and look and cook - as in 'the cuwk tuwk a luwk in the cuwkery buwk' - is quite distinctive. A Northerner has a bath while a southerner has a barth. A northerner sits on the grass while a southerner sits on the grars. Strangely, both sit on their respective arses.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved." - Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
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nwr Member Posts: 6484 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 8.7 |
In British English they wouldn't be considered separate sounds.
I'm surprised to hear that. In Australia (where I grew up), they are clearly separate sounds. And usually Australian pronunciation is closer to British (or London) than to US pronunciation.Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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nwr Member Posts: 6484 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 8.7
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A Northerner has a bath while a southerner has a barth. A northerner sits on the grass while a southerner sits on the grars.
Now that is going to be confusing to Americans. They expect "r" (as in "ar") to be pronounced, whereas you are probably just intending to lengthen the "a" sound. Aren't we getting a bit off topic here?Fundamentalism - the anti-American, anti-Christian branch of American Christianity
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