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That Werner really knows how to coin a phrase.
Dewey

-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Werner engelmaier
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 12:00 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [TN] English


 


 Aaah, John, but this is where the rub is---the 'p' stands for pence.

Werner


 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Burke <[log in to unmask]>
To: 'TechNet E-Mail Forum' <[log in to unmask]>; 'Werner engelmaier'
<[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 1:55 pm
Subject: RE: [TN] English










Most people would construe that as p'ing in an alley.........

John Burke
(408) 515 4992


-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Werner engelmaier
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 10:52 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
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


 


 

-----Original Message-----
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....?
?

Graham N?
?

On 23 Jan 2009, at 14:08, Whittaker, Dewey (EHCOE) wrote:?
?

> Dancing around this subject: are the two of you to wear your tutu, >
too??

> Dewey?

>?

> -----Original Message-----?

> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Werner engelmaier?

> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2009 6:59 AM?

> To: [log in to unmask]

> Subject: Re: [TN] English?

>?

>?

> 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?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

> -----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?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

>?

> 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]] On Behalf Of Randall L Bock?

> Sent: fredag 23 januari 2009 14:25?

> To: [log in to unmask]

> Subject: [TN] FW: English?

>?

> Funny for the day....?

>?

> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]?

> 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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