General Chat

Why not say - I sent you a text yesterday - that way you avoid the making a mistake!! Ails x

Did you get any flours today Ann? Who scent them two ewe? Who was the won? Hope it didn't brake the bank! You never no they might come in pears!

Thanks Ails......seems easy when you think about it...

Ann, how right you are about Americanisms. We say he dived into the water, Americans say he dove, which what we used to say and is the more logical. You drive your car and you drove it yesterday, therefore, logically, You dive into the water and you dove in yesterday. maggie

Maggie Again it is the difference in the origin of the words... Dive - is an old English word. Dived or dove, is equally correct. English people tend to use the word 'dived' as 'dove' sounds slightly clumsy, and we like to indicate the past tense by adding -ed. Driver is a french word, and the past tense is therefore drove. OC

Thanks OC - it is a lovely language isn't it :o) How do other's pronounce 'detritis'. I know how I was told to pronounce it, but heard it pronounced another way on Radio 4 last week - it took me a few minutes before I realised what word they were using!!! maggie

the letters 'ou' have a lot of different ways of being pronounced. McLoughlan (sounds like 'loch') through, (to) trough, (off) thorough, (but) ought, (caught) enough (cuff) though (woe) plough (wow) scour, (rhymes with bower to some) hiccough ('hiccup') Why is the American pronunciation for the word 'herb' like the French, 'erb?

My car's antique The gaskets lique And since last wique The bearings sqique. But even though The oil don't flough T'will be a blough To let it gough. len

Len , you spell just like my son :-)

Hi, Bringing back memories from school days,,,,a reading test at aged of about 10,,,,,,,,,,,,,all was fine till I got to=========Picturesque,,,,,,,,say what you see...............Picture--SQUE,,,,,,,,,,!!! where did the ESK go,???suffice to say one word I never forgot to spell,,,,,,,,,)))