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Pub quiz. The writing was beautiful. Shame they couldn’t spell Rwanda.IMG_8999.jpeg
 
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Brissy1 said:
It was correct when I typed it!
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And another one - this was my local when I was working in the UK so I can't go in and say FFS get someone to teach you how to construct an email.

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Then there is pronunciation. As I walked past the TV last night I thought I heard the voice on the Maxigesic ad say they were adictive. That would be newsworthy. In fact she was saying additive but pronouncing it a dit ive hence my confusion.
 
drron said:
Then there is pronunciation. As I walked past the TV last night I thought I heard the voice on the Maxigesic ad say they were adictive. That would be newsworthy. In fact she was saying additive but pronouncing it a dit ive hence my confusion.
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And then there's Simplified English*, addicting.

*American English 😤
 
Groundfeeder said:
Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
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You've got to remember that English developed from two routes, Anglo Saxon and Romance (Roman, French). For many situations you can use more than one word based on the different routes. At one time using a Romance based word was considered more acceptable (posh) than the Anglo Saxon equivalent.
 
Beano said:
You've got to remember that English developed from two routes, Anglo Saxon and Romance (Roman, French). For many situations you can use more than one word based on the different routes. At one time using a Romance based word was considered more acceptable (posh) than the Anglo Saxon equivalent.
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Exactly - that's how program became programme, etc. The US version of English got 'snap frozen' when they moved into the US in the 1600s and didn't adopt those silly romantic urges :)
 

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