@Cerberus: Shame on you. What are you doing asking such a cockamamie question? Are you pulling a T-Rex, or do you really believe what you wrote? Seriously. Anyway, I'll take my answer offline.
Should the pronunciations question just be locked?
Is anyone who posts to that list actually saying anything nontrivial and checking for duplicates?
Should the pronunciations question just be locked? Is anyone who posts to that list actually saying anything nontrivial and checking for duplicates? @Cerberus
@kiamlaluno For the same reason I just responded to your question late...I noticed that sending @ someone makes the sound on chat activate and alerts them to the window.
@kiamlaluno Yes, that's true, but the sound is much more noticeable for me when I'm browsing other tabs in the window. Sometimes I'm not even browsing the same window.
@kiamlaluno If it's slow -- like it is when most of the Eastern seaboard users are offline -- then anyone in chat is very likely to be browsing a different window/tab...or maybe that's just me.
@Billare That depends on where you are; if you were on the Eastern seaside, you would notice Eastern seaboard users are offline. Well, you should be offline too, if you are on Western Europe.
I am a bit disappointed that nobody got my joke, except of course the Queen of Thwack. My question on prepositions was loaded with clues. I mean, come on.
Well, I suppose it is best that I sleep off what is left of my happy state and face the consequences tomorrow.
Though I must say that the edit made by someone else to my title was fun.
@Cerberus — Sorry I went all medieval on your ass there. The time to play April Fools pranks is in the morning, not late at night. And especially not when SE time is into April 2 already. And after half a bottle of Toasted Head Cab Sauv I was a bit slow on the uptake.
Sources say English was rhotic in most places in the 17th century. How do they know that? Obviously, we don't have any samples of recorded speech from that time.
In Italy, where April fools is called "April fish", the joke we make is to attach a paper fish to the back of somebody, who goes around without knowing he has something attached.
Hi,
I would like to know more about the word 'lets' and such similar words?
Most North American speech is rhotic - why is that? Does it come from the early English settlers or perhaps from the Irish settlers?
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