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LOL Grandad u crak me up sumtyms.....Buh seriously...im still Li's joka!
 
salamualikum.
Grandpa :uuh:

@wordrobe thats a classic one heh

Ma'assalama
 
khalil27 said:
The longest word in the English according to the Oxford English Dictionary is: “pneunomoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”. (Oh!! How to pronounce it….)
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i used this word in my everyday life :p na come on lol who is gona use that word, by the time they finish the word, you wil get bored

what does it mean btw:shade:
 
Woodrow said:
As the English Professor told the class "Did you know that sugar is the only English word in which the s is pronounced as sh?" And one of the students replied "Sure"
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:sl:

Wow. English must so hard to learn, with all the inconsistencies with letter pronunciation!
 
No word in the English language rhymes with...

Orange
Purple
Silver [As mentioned by Dreamer]
Month
 
buriedaway_4536 said:
No word in the English language rhymes with...

Orange
Purple
Silver [As mentioned by Dreamer]
Month
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That may only apply for now. English is constantly changing and new words are added almost daily.

One day the following words may become accepted:

Brorange--Brownish orange color

Slurple--- the method of drinking a popular soft drink

gilver---a person who scuba dives with the use of artificial gills

onth ----a past tense usage of once.


That is the problem with trying to interpret from one language to another. As languages that are currently used gain and loose words and over time meanings also change.

One of the best examples is the word molasses and how it has changed in the past 400 years. Some of the older meanings had been:

Horse dung
Animal bite
A cut
Any wound
a poultice

and today an unrefined sugar cane syrup


A very large percentage of English words used daily only came into existence in the past 100 years and many words have changed either spelling, pronunciation of definition.
 
Woodrow said:
A very large percentage of English words used daily only came into existence in the past 100 years and many words have changed either spelling, pronunciation of definition.
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That's why it is categorized as a living language. A dead language does the contrary, it's vocabulary doesn't grow and less people speaks it.

Like ancient Egyptian language.
 
There's no rhyme for 'purple' or 'orange' though.

Purple oranges suck that way.
 
al_imaan_786 said:
^^lol


how come the cat in the hat couldnt find a rhyme for feline?
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It would have messed up the story if he had. The goal was to keep the story in single syllable words.
 
al_imaan_786 said:
u watched it?....:uuh:
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Having had kids and grandkids and great grand kids, it is a question of how many times have I had to watch it. When my kids were little it was only in book form. I must have read that story to them hundreds of times. Then with the grand kids it was an annual event on TV. Now with great grandkids it is sticking it into the DVD player almost every time I see them. At least I don't have to read it anymore.
 
Sweet! I never Noticed. I do know one that there is riddle that which is the longest word and the answer was Smile *mile*!.
 
Woodrow said:
Having had kids and grandkids and great grand kids, it is a question of how many times have I had to watch it. When my kids were little it was only in book form. I must have read that story to them hundreds of times. Then with the grand kids it was an annual event on TV. Now with great grandkids it is sticking it into the DVD player almost every time I see them. At least I don't have to read it anymore.
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i thought u would have said that gramps
 

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