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God help the English Learner... (Original Post)
1monster
May 2014
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1monster
(11,012 posts)1. Further illustrated:
immoderate
(20,885 posts)2. Sometimes I get behind a tanker truck that says "Clough."
What do you call these?
--imm
1monster
(11,012 posts)3. You got me -- unless it is some person's family name...
In that case, there was a guy who wrote a college text on the history of the western world who spelled his name that way. The professor always referred to him as Clog with the "o" pronounced as the "o" in "flow".
But your guess is as good as mine.
DFW
(54,349 posts)4. What's in a name?
Ponder the situation of this family business in Germany:
http://www.fuecker-busreisen.de/das-unternehmen.html
And it's CEO: Heinz Günter Fücker
mwooldri
(10,303 posts)6. Or the Austrian town of Fucking.
Or the other languages that have words when read in English have a very different meaning.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,994 posts)5. Park on a driveway, drive on a parkway. nt