God help the English Learner...

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God help the English Learner... (Original post)	1monster	May 2014	OP
Further illustrated:	1monster	May 2014	#1
Sometimes I get behind a tanker truck that says "Clough."	immoderate	May 2014	#2
You got me -- unless it is some person's family name...	1monster	May 2014	#3
What's in a name?	DFW	May 2014	#4
Or the Austrian town of Fucking.	mwooldri	May 2014	#6
Park on a driveway, drive on a parkway. nt	Bernardo de La Paz	May 2014	#5

Response to 1monster (Original post)

Sat May 24, 2014, 11:59 AM

1monster (11,012 posts)

1. Further illustrated:

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Sat May 24, 2014, 12:15 PM

immoderate (20,885 posts)

2. Sometimes I get behind a tanker truck that says "Clough."

What do you call these?

--imm

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Response to immoderate (Reply #2)

Sat May 24, 2014, 12:18 PM

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.

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Sat May 24, 2014, 12:26 PM

DFW (47,698 posts)