Forum home› The potting shed
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

🦀CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 9 🦀

1…7273757778…100

Posts

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Mother-in-law's tongue really is a terrible name for a nice plant. :| 
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Wild edges, you havent met mine!!!!
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    BenCotto said:
    Lyn, that pronunciation is just wrong. Mind you, I did have a geography teacher who insisted the correct pronunciation of the mountain range was Him ARE lee ers and strictly speaking we ought to say Eve-rest not Ever-est because the former was how Sir George Everest pronounced his name.

    The one that I am struggling with is Kamala (Harris) as I keep wanting to say cuh MAR la when it should be CAR muh luh. I suppose we should be grateful the Democrats did not choose Pete Buttigieg.
    Attenborough has always pronounced Him ARE lee ers.
    I have a friend with a daughter called Kamela pronounced as Pamela. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Many many years ago I sat in a biology lecture for over 30 mins before I realised the speaker who kept saying toth was actually talking about tooth, and teeth!
    AB Still learning

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We had a geography teacher who told us all about greynight
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    I was listening to a radio program about Luther in the car on the way home from work. The presenter couldn't say "th" so it took me a little while to realise who this mysterious "loofah" was. I had to stop the car when he talked about the time Luther had nailed his theses to the church door... (try it out with "f" instead of "th"!)
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I'd just helped a patient to have a wash and brush-up after her caesarean, and her midwife asked me:  "Any foetal loss?"  I was baffled: the patient had just been delivered of a live, healthy, full-term baby, so why was the midwife asking about loss of a foetus?  After a bit of to-ing and fro-ing, it turned out she wanted to know if the lady had opened her bowels yet;  "Any faecal loss?"
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Being slightly deaf and loath to use my hearing aids, I often find that what I think I heard is much more interesting than what was actually said.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    OH has "creative" hearing too.   Bloody frustrating at times cos he refuses to wear his aids too.  Why buy them then?
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    A man goes to the doctor saying he can’t pronunce f or th. “Well,” says the doc, “you can’t say fairer than that.”

    I know, I’ve told it before, but it still makes me chuckle.
    Rutland, England
This discussion has been closed.