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Showing Original Post only (View all)The most not fun sentence in English for folks learning English 😀 [View all]
English is a difficult language
but it can be understood through tough, thorough, thought though!😀
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"Buffalo" is the name of a ruminant mammal and a city in NY state. It can also mean "to bully, obstruct".
eppur_se_muova
Yesterday
#5
That's the sentence I'd like to drag my seventh-grade teacher to and say...
malthaussen
Yesterday
#9
I have coarse and fine sea salt. After skipping on the coarse I thought to myself "fine is fine".
twodogsbarking
Yesterday
#10
Ah but goose has yet another meaning. If you get goosed more than once is it geesed?
twodogsbarking
Yesterday
#17
When I was living in Catalunya, it was a requirement to learn the one about the setze jutges (sixteen judges)
DFW
Yesterday
#19
Interesting video! If you'd like to know how English ended up with those spellings/pronunciations, I posted
highplainsdem
23 hrs ago
#32
You're welcome! I love the OED. Have the compact edition I bought about
highplainsdem
22 hrs ago
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