yellowcanine
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Tue Mar-25-08 05:27 PM
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Why is salmon pronounced "sam ann" and not "sal man" |
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Bugs the shit out of me when I think about it.
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Stuart G
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Tue Mar-25-08 05:45 PM
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1. Because it is ......."English.." |
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Edited on Tue Mar-25-08 05:46 PM by Stuart G
Now you need to know this: ..that 1100 years ago, when English was evolving, ......, my group got together(at a special fish meeting).... and decided that it would be pronounced sam onn and not sal man, because we knew that you would be asking this question today.. ......Tomorrow you will probably ask why we spell it phone, and not fone..........so you now know, ......you should have been at the meeting...tuff......enouf said..Stuart G.
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Tue Mar-25-08 05:51 PM
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2. Why is phonetics pronounced with an f? |
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Tue Mar-25-08 05:54 PM
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3. I see you missed that meeting too.. |
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It was on a Phriday.. That one was about sounds...like ......I no you do not no it...Hopefully you will attend next time..
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Tue Mar-25-08 05:57 PM
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Tue Mar-25-08 06:18 PM
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5. What the 'L' are you talking about? |
KamaAina
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Tue Mar-25-08 06:19 PM
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6. As it happens, salmon is a species of ghoti |
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George Bernard Shaw came up with this classic:
'gh' as in rough 'o' as in women 'ti' as in solution
thus 'fish' could be spelled 'ghoti' :rofl:
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Tue Mar-25-08 06:21 PM
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Tue Mar-25-08 06:21 PM
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8. I was talking to someone |
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who said
DEfrost (but it was really cute) instead of dafrost
like it was a 2 syllable word!!!!
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SalmonChantedEvening
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Tue Mar-25-08 06:48 PM
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9. It's not my fault I tells ya!! |
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The pun was lying unused in the hall and I grabbed it.
It had already been written. Honest.
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Tue Mar-25-08 08:37 PM
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10. I thought it was pronounced "cod" |
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Tue Mar-25-08 11:59 PM
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11. the same reason we pronounce herb as "erb" |
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even know it has a fucking 'h' in it. Because we're dumb americans
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Wed Mar-26-08 12:02 AM
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12. Salman Rushdie... Ghoti.... |
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I'm such a dork for finding this thread so funny. :rofl:
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Wed Mar-26-08 12:10 AM
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13. Being a French Canadian dork... |
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I find it even funnier.:rofl: (and I learned a couple of things too).
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Wed Mar-26-08 06:14 PM
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14. I was so confused over it I once called it Sau-mon pronounced in french. |
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