Freddy Mercury, Venus Williams Williams Bruno Mars all happened to walk into the same bar.
But they didn't planet that way.
I'll get me coat!
BTW roughly $/1.33 = £ (so $800/1.33 = £601 - but then your joke of course doesn't work quite as well!
Freddy Mercury, Venus Williams Williams Bruno Mars all happened to walk into the same bar.
Hey Fossie, I think you have a greater grasp of the Kings English than I. I, being Buddhist believe you have had more times on this earth than I. I'm starting to think most people in the UK have more rounds here than I. Thanks to this site to bringing me this Knowledge.fossie wrote: ↑Sun Dec 20, 2020 6:56 pmIt's Maths by the way not math.. it's a plural thing so must have an 's at the end.
We know it's the way it is said in the US , but it winds us ( some of us anyway) up ..as with route ...it's pronounced root , not rowt. A rowt is when a team/ side beats another decidedly. The word route is from the French route meaning road as in auto route etc ...
To you root can be a beer which is a type of drink that taste like Germoline.
Depeche Mode redid Route 66, and since they are from England, did they fare any better?Uncle Bob wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 6:03 pm"Rowt" was one that gets me, though from the IT view point (we have routers, they have rowters).
Also although the roads are Rowts, when it came to that song about the "66" the American singer does use the "root" pronunciation (doesn't really work well singing Rowt 66 does it).
I also got used to having to type in color when programing (programming).
Actually a good read is Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mother-Tongue- ... 0141040084 ) - you will find that quite a few American English words we possibly take exception at are actually closer to the older English versions (so you could say technically more correct) as they didn't evolve.
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Here in the states it's the latter.
The motorcycle item at the start of the thread has long gone! All that is left is the tangential remainder of this thread pin-balling around the etherverse.Brad GSX1100SD wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 12:08 pmHas everyone forgotten the motorcycle in all this, or have I wandered into a discussion on pronunciation, spelling & grammar?