@Ste It was horrible when I went through there, south to north. Whose brilliancy was it to make the toll boths on the exit side, so that you have to sit there and breathe fumes for half an hour?
All of the words you provide (limb, thumb, crumb) are listed in my local dictionary without a b sound. Things seem basically the same with suffixes (i.e. thumbed has no b sound).
Crumbled is is a completely different word and receives the pronunciation typical for "mble": thimble, tremble, fumbl...
> The "b" in each word appeared later (mid-15c for crumb and 16c for crumble). Given the typical pronunciation of the "mb" and "mble" it isn't surprising that these words are treated the same. Why they received a "b" at all is a little vague from the notes in the above link.
‘H’ represents a vowel sound, so we would expect ‘a hypothesis’, and that is what many say and write. However, where the stress in a word beginning with a sounded /h/ is on the second or subsequent syllable, some native speakers precede the word with ‘an’ rather than ‘a’, so you will also see and...
A basic grammar rule is to use an instead of a before a vowel sound. Given that historic is not pronounced with a silent h, I use “a historic”. Is this correct? What about heroic? Should be “It was a heroic act” or “It was an heroic act”?
I remember reading somewhere that the h is sometimes sile...
You see these all the time in movies, usually when some poor guy has been wrongly imprisoned and begins counting the days since his incarceration, but what are these markings called? I used to know, but I've forgotten and now it's really bugging me.
Did you know that every second word in Russian is a euphemism for "drink all things now"? The rest being euphemisms for "your", "mother", or some combination thereof.
@Robusto the special thing about that word is that it can mean anything at all, once you've thrown away all the others. If that's not special, then special has no meaning. (And it doesn't. That meaning is had by one.)
The edit summary here says:
cleaned up a bit, removed the trollpoking.
I'm certain removing trollpoking is referring to the removal of:
This answer is going to be deleted as off-topic, isn't it? ^_^
and I know what troll(ing) is.
But what does trollpoking mean?
I always fear my conversation sounds like this:
— What would you like to drink, sir?
— I will take some cock, thanks.
— ROFL.
Any tips on how to pronounce Coke so it is not mistaken for anything? :)
I just posted my own question about the term we use. I can't believe I missed your question! In New England (in Maine anyway), we call these snow goblins.
> GCHQ and NSA deny conducting industrial espionage, despite spying on the E. anti-trust Commissioner Almunia (who fined Microsoft and Intel), French industrial conglomerate Thales, several German government agencies...
I am from New England (northeastern US) and it's my understanding that we have a non-rhotic dialect in this region, which is unusual compared to the rest of the US.
It is common to drop the final r in a word, and that is the most singular feature of the dialect, as Tom Bosley's character in Murd...
So in Vienna there is the Ringstrasse which is a ring road around the city. The various segments are named after local features, e.g. Opernring which is named after the Opera. I stayed on Parkring, and the whole time I kept wondering where the parking was. Damn intrusive r.
It may be limited to the web ecosystem, but I've read a lot of those sentences lately, where each word is followed by a period.
Examples:
Oh. My. God.
Best. Job. Ever.
No. F***ing. Way.
Putting each word on its own hints the readers should give their full attention to each and ev...
@RegDwigнt I'm not in chat or noticing that questions are closed or reading them all the way thru because I'm too busy trying to slam in answers in hopes that I can beat Barrie to the punch
@JasperLoy No. I have been retired for nearly a year. And, except for hat season, I have always had some sense of shame about what answers I will post and what questions I will answer. The Terminator has no such feelings.
@tchrist For the record, I played it and won it as long as it interested me to do so. Two and a half years holding a meaningless "championship" is quite enough, especially since there ain't no money in it. Also note that the current title holder has answered 50% more questions than I ever did. Magno conatu magnas nugas!