We English always were budget conscious....8-)
John Burke
(408) 515 4992
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From: Werner engelmaier [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 11:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] English
Aaah, John, but this is where the rub is---the 'p' stands for pence.
Werner
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From: John Burke <[log in to unmask]>
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Most people would construe that as p'ing in an alley.........
John Burke
(408) 515 4992
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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ] On Behalf
Of Werner engelmaier
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 10:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] English
My grandkids came up with a perfectly good [British] English sentence that
would leave most American befuddled {for Dewey--go have a hay day with
this}:
We stood in a cue in a narrow mew for a loo for a p.
Werner
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From: Graham Naisbitt <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:59 pm
Subject: Re: [TN] English
You know what? Maybe this economic disaster isn't so bad after all....?
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Graham N?
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On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:08, Whittaker, Dewey (EHCOE) wrote:?
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> Dancing around this subject: are the two of you to wear your tutu, > too??
> Dewey?
>?
> -----Original Message-----?
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ] On
Behalf Of Werner engelmaier?
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 6:59 AM?
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> Subject: Re: [TN] English?
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> Well, Inge,?
> not only is pronunciation challenging, but there is at least one?
> sentence that spoken makes perfectly good sense, but you cannot really?
> write it:?
>?
> There are three twos [tos, toos] in the English language.?
>?
> Werner?
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> -----Original Message-----?
> From: Hernefjord Ingemar <[log in to unmask]>?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 8:50 am?
> Subject: Re: [TN] English?
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> yeah...agree...not easy to pronounce english words..?
> no wonder some people don't understand a ounce?
>?
> e.g 'ghoti'?
>?
> anyone who can read what it is??
>?
> It's 'fish'?
>?
> f as in laugh?
> i as in women?
> sh as in station?
>?
> Inge?
>?
> -----Original Message-----?
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ] On
Behalf Of Randall L Bock?
> Sent: fredag 23 januari 2009 14:25?
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> Subject: [TN] FW: English?
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> Funny for the day....?
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> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]
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> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 8:17 AM?
> To: Agacinski, Gerry; Barardi, Michelle; Bock, Cal and Kay; Randall L?
> Bock;?
> Brenda; Buckley, Joyce ; Burroughs, Larry; Butler, Beverly; Collins,?
> Steve;?
> Diane; Edwards, Beverly; Gileczek, Richard; Hafner, Denise; Janet;?
> Krakowiak,?
> Janet; Lane, Linda and Brad; Mann, Marjorie; Monica; Patton, Cherie;?
> Wheat,?
> Mike; Wheat, Pamela; Wilke, Mary Jo?
> Subject: English?
>?
> Subject: English - interesting?
>?
> THIS IS GREAT!!!?
> Read all the way to the end.............. This took a lot of work to >
put?
>?
> together!!!?
>?
>?
> You think English is easy????
>?
>?
>?
>?
>?
> Read to the end . . . a new twist?
>?
>?
> 1) The bandage was wound around the wound.?
>?
>?
> 2) The farm was used to produce produce .?
>?
> 3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.?
>?
> 4) We must polish the Polish furniture.?
>?
> 5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.?
>?
> 6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.?
>?
> 7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to?
> present?
> the present .?
>?
> 8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.?
>?
> 9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.?
>?
> 10) I did not object to the object.?
>?
> 11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.?
>?
> 12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row?
>?
> 13) They were too close to the door to close it.?
>?
> 14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.?
>?
> 15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.?
>?
> 16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.?
>?
> 17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.?
>?
> 18) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.?
>?
> 19) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.?
>?
> 20) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend??
>?
>?
> Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in?
> eggplant, nor?
> ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.?
> English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in > France .?
> Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are > meat.?
> We take?
> English for granted.?
> But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work >
slowly,?
> boxing?
> rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a?
> pig.?
>?
> And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't?
> groce and?
> hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the >
plural?
> of?
> booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2?
> indices??
> Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend? If >
you?
> have a?
> bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you?
> call it??
>?
> If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats?
> vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat??
> Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an?
> asylum for?
> the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and?
> play at a?
> recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and?
> feet that?
> smell??
>?
> How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man >
and?
> a wise?
> guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a >
language?
> in?
> which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a?
> form by?
> filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.?
>?
> English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the?
> creativity of?
> the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why,?
> when the?
> stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are?
> invisible.?
>?
> Why doesn't 'Buick' rhyme with 'quick' ??
>?
>?
> You lovers of the English language?
> might enjoy this .?
>?
> There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any >
other?
>?
> two-letter word, and that is 'UP.'?
>?
> It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of > the?
> list,?
> but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP ? At a meeting, >
why?
> does a?
> topic come UP ? Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for?
> election and?
> why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report?
>?
> We call UP our friends. And we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP?
> the?
> silver; we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. We lock UP?
> the house?
> and some guys fix UP the old car. At other times the little word has?
> real?
> special meaning. People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP?
> an?
> appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing, but to be?
> dressed UP?
> is special.?
>?
> And this UP is confusing: A drain must be opened UP because it is?
> stopped UP. We?
> open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP at night.?
>?
> We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP ! To be knowledgeable about the?
> proper?
> uses of UP , look the word UP in the dictionary. In a desk-sized?
> dictionary, it?
> takes UP almost 1/4th of the page and can add UP to about thirty?
> definitions.?
> If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways?
> UP is?
> used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, > you?
> may wind?
> UP with a hundred or more. When it threatens to rain, we say it is?
> clouding UP .?
> When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.?
>?
> When it rains, it wets the earth and often messes things UP.?
>?
> When it doesn't r ain for awhile, things dry UP.?
>?
> One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP, > so?
> it is?
> time to shut UP!?
>?
> Oh one more thing:?
>?
>?
> What is the first thing you do in the morning & the last thing you > do
at?
> night??
> U----P?
>?
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