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How about a game of questions. I will start with a couple of questions and see if you can add to them. I may be asking for trouble on this one.



Why do we say someting is out of whack? What is a whack?



Why do "tug" boats push their barges?



Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game?" when we are already there?



Why doesn't glue stick to the bottle?



If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?



ok your turn................

:rolleyes:

Mookey1229 wrote: :rolleyes:


The trouble is, Mookey, is that the English language is too versatile. Try a different language like Latin or Ancient Greek.

Somebody was asking about the neck of the woods in another thread. Here's a good place, too.

*rats, I thought they were going to post in Latin*

Amor est vitae essentia

chonsigirl wrote: *rats, I thought they were going to post in Latin*

Amor est vitae essentia


You wha'?

Luv is the essence of life..............................

Wow, that was a long word.......

chonsigirl wrote: Luv is the essence of life..............................


You mean Latin is derived from French?!!:D

Clancy wrote: ....why did they pick a word like: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia { the fear of long words } when people with that fear will shrink back from it


Well made up Clancy. Meriam-Webster doesn't recognise it. Either that or you mis-spelt it as I pasted it across.

Punch it into dictionary.com, the word is there.

Spelled right too.

A+ for that!:)

chonsigirl wrote: Punch it into dictionary.com, the word is there.



Spelled right too.



A+ for that!:)


You're right Chonsi. But Dictionary.com doesn't provide a clue as to the pronunciation of the word.

chonsigirl wrote: Punch it into dictionary.com, the word is there.

Spelled right too.

A+ for that!:)


why "I before E, except after C"?, who really cares????

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Hippo-like the animal

oto-you know, a guy name

monstrose-mon-stroos

quid-hey, it's a buck here or there

ali-baba

o-oh no!

phobia-fob-ee-ah....fear

Greek in origin.......................

minks wrote: why "I before E, except after C"?, who really cares????


That's English for ya Minks. English was created so we could have an English version of the Holy Bible. Need I say anymore.

On the other hand, ol' Willy Shakehisspear had loads of fun with English when it first came out.

chonsigirl wrote: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia



Hippo-like the animal

oto-you know, a guy name

monstrose-mon-stroos

quid-hey, it's a buck here or there

ali-baba

o-oh no!

phobia-fob-ee-ah....fear



Greek in origin.......................
Not the same as the little signs that appear above the letters in a proper dic.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia



‘ip-pō-pŏ-tō-mŏn-strōs-ē-kĭp-pă-dā-lē-ō-fō-bē-ă

OpenMind wrote: That's English for ya Minks. English was created so we could have an English version of the Holy Bible. Need I say anymore.

On the other hand, ol' Willy Shakehisspear had loads of fun with English when it first came out.


thee be a brilliant man OM

chonsigirl wrote: Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia





‘ip-pō-pŏ-tō-mŏn-strōs-ē-kĭp-pă-dā-lē-ō-fō-bē-ă


So the e after stros is actually pronounced then!

Beats Mary Poppins.

minks wrote: thee be a brilliant man OM


Cease to persuade, my loving Proteus.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

Were't not affection chains thy tender days

To the sweet glances of thy honoured love,

I rather would entreat thy company

To see the wonders of the world abroad

Than, living dully sluggardized at home,

Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

But since thou lov'st, love still, and thrive therein -

Even as I would, when I to love begin.

Clancy wrote: Collective nouns :



Ok, I can undersatnd something like , an "intrigue of kittens.



But the collective noun for baboons is a 'flange' ...now I have a flange pedal at my feet {on the pedal board} ....and when I step on it , it doesn't sound like a baboon at all !.....


Sorry Clancy. You're just not playing it right. I didn't know the collective noun for a group of baboons is a flange. Fascinating. Because if a flange is trodden on in the right way, that's just what it sounds like.

Clancy wrote: Maybe with a crass remark like that , you should shove the jack plug up your own arse ....no offence , like


Been there, done that, and it was brilliant. No flange of baboons could ever reproduce that.

Clancy wrote: ....Yeah , bought the t-shirt , etc, etc, ....I think you were out of order.


Sorry Clancy. Didn't mean to offend.

Clancy wrote: ...s'ok OM , my remark was less than cordial , when it comes to snooze, I'm very protective. She's her own woman, ....anyway, best forgotten.


So I've just discovered. Not covering up for myself, I invited Snooze to see. I stand straitly humbled. I feel really very rotten now.

OM, I know your a gentleman and a scholar..!! You said your apology Snooze won't hold it against you.. so don't feel bad.

CARLA wrote: OM, I know your a gentleman and a scholar..!! You said your apology Snooze won't hold it against you.. so don't feel bad.


Thank you, Carla. I so long to eyeball you again.

I know it has been a long time since we chatted..!! I miss you to...:-4

Thank you, Carla. I so long to eyeball you again.

CARLA wrote: I know it has been a long time since we chatted..!! I miss you to...:-4


Shucks, now I feel as red as that smilie.:-4

This thread did not turn out the way I thought it would. Guess I will have to come up with something else.

Threads never do hunny! :wah: We're just a bunch of OAP's who meander away from the point and never make it back again! hehehehehe :wah: :-5

Welcome to ....er......so, why IS the sky blue? :wah: