said...
"Fran" wrote

Actually, that doesn't surprise me. I was once asked how I knew
the difference in pronounciation between through, though,
thorough, cough, bough, tough and hiccough.

And Lough.

I'd forgotten about that!
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said...
In article , Fran
writes
English is a
horrendous language to learn.

A furriner arrived in Britain unable to speak the lingo saw his first
hoarding advertising a show " CAVALCADE - pronounced success!" he went
home!

Groan. *Thwack*!
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In article , Fran
writes
I'd forgotten about that!
It'll come to you the next time you make dough.
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John Dann wrote:

What is it about newsgroups that results in the longest threads often
being the ones that are OT (or at least have drifted substantially
OT)? No criticism implied, I'm just interested in a bemused sort of
way.

It makes a change from talking about the same old stuff...

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"Howard Neil" wrote in message


By the way, Y Mynydd Du is pronounced "er minith dee" the "th" being as
in "the" rather than in "think".

Not Rrmunnnehth-ee?


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