If you observed Lent last year, but you're not doing it this year, you're relentless.
I don't make the rules. That's just how English works.
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Noone:
My brain: is it im-pet-us or imp-eh-tus? Have I been saying it wrong all these years? Im-pet-us? Imp-eh-tus?
*Looks it up* Imp-eh-tus. Cool. I was right.
30 seconds later...
My brain: Wait. Why do impetus and impotence sound the same?
#showerthoughts #englishisweird
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Do you know where phrase “ham-handed” comes from?
#ham #englishisweird #howthehelldidinotknowthat #memoir #memoirs #humor #books
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Vzhledem k tomu, že je to angličtina, tak to bude "aunt Matilda" nebo něco podobně intuitivního. #englishIsWeird
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Do you stumble on in to vs into?
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What a splendiferous #etymology! Music accompanying libations?! And see more at "spouse"??
I bet @susiedentwords.bsky.social would have great stuff to say
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Yeah, fuch the fuchsia spellers.
What other word spellings make no damn sense?
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Sound the same, spelled differently.
Slay - As in to slay a dragon
Sleigh - As in “One horse open sleigh”
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Same spellin, different meaning.
Does- As in accomplishes something
Does- Plural for Doe, a female deer.
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Sounds the same, different spelling and different meanings.
Rain-as in water falling from the clouds
Rein-as in slow something down (rein a horse in)
Reign-to rule, as in what a king/queen does. Also, how long a king/queen rule.
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Read- as in “to read a book”
Read- as in “I read this book yesterday “
Same spelling, different tense.
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English is what happens when the Vikings learn Latin and use it to shout at Germans and then the French shout back. #history #language #EnglishIsWeird
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Why in God's name do Americans put punctuation inside quotation marks? IT MAKES NO SENSE.
Like:
Maria said, "This is important," and I panicked -- no clue what to say or where the period should go!
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Used to, pronounced with an ess, means was.
Used to, pronounced with a zee, means utilized.
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I am so fucking over this cold! Unfortunately, I'm not over this cold yet.
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Ever notice English has no single word for "the day after tomorrow"?
Meanwhile, German’s out here like: "übermorgen."
Japanese? "asatte."
But English? We said, "Nah, let's suffer through 7 syllables every time."
#LanguageProblems #EnglishIsWeird #WhyUseOneWordWhenYouCanUseSeven
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Henry Kissinger is cool... now, at least.
This is why I don't usually believe in absolutes, but yours I will give a lot of latitude.
Attitude: Double T
Latitude: Single T
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Pasific Osh*ean… who approved this language?? 😂
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There’s A LOT of valid points by this young lady 🤣🤣🤣 Words are weird!
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If someone is describing something, which of these indicates a more negative reaction?
"This thing was not good"
"This thing was not very good"
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More evidence that english is 5 languages in a trenchcoat.
Don't illude me, or I might elude you while I allude to snow leopards.
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When alphabetizing...
- "After" is before "Before"
- "End" is before "Finish"
- "Finish" is before "Start"
- "Fall" is before "Spring"
- "Afternoon" is before "Morning"
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(I know these are minor, but they're annoyances to keep in mind when looking at sorted data)
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According to Merriam Webster, backyard is one word, while front yard is two. Why? #EnglishIsWeird
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I'm so glad I have smart friends.
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The word "series" -- which means having multiple things -- doesn't have a plural.
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I'm not sure how, or if, they work in other languages but my instinct is that for full effect, crossword puzzles need to be in a language which is the equivalent of three raccoons in a trenchcoat.
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#WTHenglish
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Think of it like the opinion-size-quality-shape-age-color-origin-material-type-purpose adjective ordering rule. #englishisweird
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