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Reblogged this on Smorgasbord – Variety is the spice of life and commented:
Pity all those who have to learn English.. and The Story Reading Ape has a wonderful demonstration of this on his blog today… love After a number of injections my jaw got number… brilliant.
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😀 – Thanks for sharing Sally – HUGS 😀
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Would it help if I said “Nothing worthwhile is easy?”. No, I didn’t think so.
Thanks Chris.
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HUGS BACK DAVID 😀
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This one is new to me (while I had stumbled upon the pronunciation poem before) – thank you, Chris!
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Welcome Fran 😀
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Great post, and so true about English! There are over a million individuals words in English and yet we keep coming back to the same few, re-used and re-pronounced… Much of it, I suspect, is a product of the polyglot origins – English a language, I’ve heard, that doesn’t so much borrow from other languages as knock them down in a dark alley and riffle their pockets for any words and usages it can find…
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It just highlights the wonder of the reading process, being able to process so many words in one go to make sense of them before we read them fully.
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True Sue 😀
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🙂
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Reblogged this on mira prabhu and commented:
I had a Hindi teacher in school who used to say: English! It’s the most difficult language to learn, it does not make sense!!! I bet she would have appreciated this post! Thank you, Chris Graham!
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She was right Mira 😀
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She was a tough woman!! Loved Hindi above all and didn’t hesitate to let us know it. Love!
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See, another reason to master Pig Latin!
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LOL
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Homonyms trip up writers & editors too…not just people learning English as another language.
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That’s true Carol 😀
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And when those of us who live in this verbal insanity read it, we think nothing of what we just read. 🙂
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Indeed Joelle 😀
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ridiculous really
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