Dec 29, 2010

Magpie Tales#46

The irrepressible Willow throws down the gauntlet(s) this week and challenges us to duel with . . 


Why in the Name of All That's Wonderful Doesn't English
Tidy Up It's Pronunciation!

There was a young fellow from Hove
who lost (from a pair) the left glove.
He said with a sigh
"How will I get bigh,
If the temperature downwards should move"

26 comments:

  1. With poetry this clever, pronunciation doesn't matter a bit.

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  2. What Fun! good one- Happy new year!

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  3. I find the incongruity of English to be extremely funny..but you make something of it!! Very good!

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  4. I have a friend who lives in Brighton, well Hove-Actually, I'll ask her to keep a look out for it!

    (on and by strange co-incidence the word verification that came up was "paired"

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  5. Oh this is very clever ...and yes, why does the English language have so many pronunciations of similar spellings.

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  6. George Bernard Shaw wanted English spelling and pronunciation put right, pointing out that "ghoti" should be pronounced the same as "fish" -
    "gh" as in "cough"; "o" is is "women", and "ti" as in many. many words such as "diction"

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  7. Maybe it wouldn't be as much fun as the one you have posted. Thankyou!

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  8. Very witty. I quite like reading this and giving the words an "accent". Makes me feel "sophisticated". BTW, my accents are always atrocious - My oldest son can do quite a good British one - he has been in many plays that required it... Thank you for the heads up regarding my 2nd Magpie post - I fixed it.

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  9. Why is English spelled so ridiculously?
    It never makes any cents er I mean sense..
    Hilariously clever you are!

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  10. I love a good limerick. This is a fantastic one! As a Swedish girl who moved to the US in 1974, I was incredulous about how English spelling has more exceptions than rules. Swedish spelling is about 99% phonetic. And thanks so much for stopping and commenting at Life is Good!

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  11. Lord of the Limerick
    strikes again, with a
    swat to the funny bone,
    with wit as sharp as a
    fishbone shard. Thank-you
    for this foray into funny.

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  12. "How will I get bigh"? We'll he should have kept his gloves tied with crazy string! I don't know! Great take on the old lively limerick! Where's "Hove" by Jove? Love the accent! (oh do taperecord this one!)

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  13. Cute one. I read it aloud and ended with "muhv"!

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  14. Very Clever Doctor.....Happy New Year...stay warm...bkm

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  15. I am French so I can mispronounce this as much as I want.
    Happy 365th day.

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  16. This made me smile. It must be very difficult if English is a second language. Nice Magpie.

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  17. Wigh do yew saigh that Sough? Eye fined it easigh enuff!
    Thanks doc, love it!

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  18. Inglish ist goot!
    Oive had enoof of
    Americanese
    a donkey's aperture
    sounds like a disease

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  19. Oh, this is truly entertaining...very witty! I think I would prefer your pronunciation of "move" to the actual one. It's definitely more interesting. Also, thanks for your suggestion about the second line of my piece. I did change it to improve the beat. Happy New Year! :)

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  20. It's obviously not the pronunciation that's a problem but the spelling.

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  21. I enjoyed your intro statement as much as I did the poem!

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Thank you for stopping by. To make life easier for you I have turned off the new indecipherable and time-wasting verification words. Would you care to "feedback" to Blogger and complain about them, like I did?