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And don't forget words that are pronounced differently with identical spelling, for added hilarity: * Polish people live in Poland. * Polish your boots.
by stevekemp 11y ago
And don't forget words that are pronounced differently with identical spelling, for added hilarity:
* Polish people live in Poland.
* Polish your boots.
- tricolon 11y agoObligatory link to Nolst Trenité's "The Chaos": http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
- stevekemp 11y agoNew to me, thanks for sharing. Some great examples there, such as "minute" and "minute". heh.
- leoc 11y ago'Feoffer' is probably the worst word there. But just maybe the worst snare in English is 'positive' — the other 'positive' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_organ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_organ . Yes it's obviously some kind of loan-word, but then so are most English words...
- ziotom78 11y agoAnother example: * I read this book whenever I feel lonely. * I read this book many years ago A friend of mine coming from Scotland once told me that he phoned Twinings (the English tea maker) in order to understand how to pronounce it ("twain..." or "twin...").
- Al-Khwarizmi 11y agoSo, don't make us go to sleep without knowing how to actually pronounce Twinings! I have no idea and now want to know.
- vacri 11y agoTwine-ings. As in twine/string. Rhymes with wine. The 'ings' is pretty standard, like in 'things'. Twinings is a name, though - and all bets are off when it comes to name pronunciation.
- pandler 11y ago"Polish Remover" A bottle of solvent or leader of the Nazi party?