Professor.Arturo Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Why is 'blood' not spelled 'blud'? thats how we pronounce it!! if blood is pronounced blud, why is food not pronounced fud? Loads more! Also, who decided to put the letter s in 'lisp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrible Trio Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Why is 'blood' not spelled 'blud'? thats how we pronounce it!! if blood is pronounced blud, why is food not pronounced fud? Loads more! Also, who decided to put the letter s in 'lisp? why is route pronounced root but thousand isn't pronounced thoosand (depending on whether or not you live in fife) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor FinnBarr Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Why is Easter Road pronounced Easter Road and not Festering Sheethole? :107years: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrible Trio Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Why is Easter Road pronounced Easter Road and not Festering Sheethole?:107years: very valid point Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppercrutch Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 In the word 'queue' how many letters are actually necessary.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flux Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 how come the word for small is bigger than the word for big? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makateer Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Why is 'blood' not spelled 'blud'? thats how we pronounce it!! if blood is pronounced blud, why is food not pronounced fud? Loads more! Also, who decided to put the letter s in 'lisp? Because there is no L in it. Flood rhymes with blood. Food rhymes with mood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cigaro Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Why is abreviation such a long word? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal_ Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Because there is no L in it. Flood rhymes with blood. Food rhymes with mood. door rhymes with more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flux Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 why is dyslexic so hard to spell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coppercrutch Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 why is dyslexic so hard to spell? It's not................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie fenwick Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Why is 'blood' not spelled 'blud'? thats how we pronounce it!! if blood is pronounced blud, why is food not pronounced fud? Loads more! Also, who decided to put the letter s in 'lisp? because fud is pronounced hibby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamboj Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe. Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes, and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind. Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age. Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie. 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. Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spikey? Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Finally, which rhymes with enough -- Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give up!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ulysses Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 how come the word for small is bigger than the word for big? How come the word for smaller is bigger than the word for bigger? Which evil swine put an "s" in "lisp"? Why is "fish" not spelt "ghoti"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Lyon Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Why do we say 'back in front'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Why is "fish" not spelt "ghoti"? You might have to remind me: "gh" as in 'laugh' gives us the 'f' "ti" as in 'notion' gives us the 'sh' Why the "o"?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambo66 Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 You might have to remind me: "gh" as in 'laugh' gives us the 'f' "ti" as in 'notion' gives us the 'sh' Why the "o"?? "o" as in "women" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I P Knightley Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 "o" as in "women" Merci bien. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cigaro Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 How come the word for smaller is bigger than the word for bigger? Which evil swine put an "s" in "lisp"? Why is "fish" not spelt "ghoti"? You might have to remind me: "gh" as in 'laugh' gives us the 'f' "ti" as in 'notion' gives us the 'sh' Why the "o"?? Why is laugh not spelt laf. Why is notion not spelt noshun? By the same accord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovecraft Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Why is 'blood' not spelled 'blud'? thats how we pronounce it!! if blood is pronounced blud, why is food not pronounced fud? Loads more! Also, who decided to put the letter s in 'lisp? I'm guessing it's derived from the word blōd, which is pronounced blud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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