Yeah, but you need two to rub together. Werner -----Original Message----- From: Whittaker, Dewey (EHCOE) <[log in to unmask]> To: TechNet E-Mail Forum <[log in to unmask]>; Werner engelmaier <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 8:38 am Subject: RE: [TN] English 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? >? > ---------------------------------------------------? > Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0? > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text? > in? > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet? > To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to? > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL)? > To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to? > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest? > Search the archives of previous posts at:? > http://listserv.ipc.org/archives? > Please visit IPC web site? > http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for? > additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or? > 847-615-7100 ext.2815? > -----------------------------------------------------? >? >? >? >? >? >? > ---------------------------------------------------? > Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0? > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text? > in? > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet? > To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to? > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL)? > To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to? > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest? > Search the archives of previous posts at:? > http://listserv.ipc.org/archives? > Please visit IPC web site? > http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional? > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or > 847-615-7100? > ext.2815? > -----------------------------------------------------? >? > ---------------------------------------------------? > Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0? > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following > text in? > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet? > To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]> : SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL)? > To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]> : SET Technet Digest? > Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives? > Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16> for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask]> or 847-615-7100 ext.2815? > -----------------------------------------------------? ? ---------------------------------------------------? 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