What do you mean, you can't....

[Rhythm Thief]

Map reading. I can't understand people who can't read maps. Mind you, as a lorry driver I can't understand people who don't know the way between two towns without looking it up.

 

[Radius]

I don't understand how people can't pronounce the word 'Croissant'.
It's not 'crossn't' - it's the first part of the noise a duck makes, a SSS sound, the word On and a T on the end. Qua sss on t. Simples!!!

Eh? Surely it's pronounced more like the other French word 'quoi'-and then-ssant, not 'kwa-ssant'. When you say 'moi', it's almost 'mwarr' not 'mwa'!' is it?

 

[Aperitif]

Almost there, doc, But the final "t" is silent.

Mort - he's from the 'tea' thread...it was only to be expected.

 

[Jane Smart]

Map reading. I can't understand people who can't read maps. Mind you, as a lorry driver I can't understand people who don't know the way between two towns without looking it up.

Well I am crap at reading maps sorry

 

[Jane Smart]

F?

Oh Doc you are so clever

 

[Auntie Helen]

Bit like the American pronunciation of bouy - which is boo-ey, always makes me smile!

Yep, makes me smile too. But you've made the classic spelling error too - it's buoy, but I see it misspelled bouy as often as I see it correctly spelled - and I move in boating circles.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Yep, makes me smile too. But you've made the classic spelling error too - it's buoy, but I see it misspelled bouy as often as I see it correctly spelled - and I move in boating circles.

Gah! - and now you've quoted me I can't sneakily sort my spellinge out!

 

[Archie_tect]

Eh? Surely it's pronounced more like the other French word 'quoi'-and then-ssant, not 'kwa-ssant'. When you say 'moi', it's almost 'mwarr' not 'mwa'!' is it?

This is as educational as mime on the radio...

 

[rich p]

I saw a large white bird with a long beak standing on one leg in Germany last year - it was a butter I think.

 

[Fnaar]

I move in boating circles.

Have you tried using the other oar as well?

 

[Auntie Helen]

That's more accurate than you would think Fnaar as I'm effectively one-armed so can only row in circles. For my RYA Incompetent Crew course they had to invent some special rowlocks on the dinghy so I could scull it along with one oar at the back.

 

[Archie_tect]

I saw a large white bird with a long beak standing on one leg in Germany last year - it was a butter I think.

Very rare those Mycteria margerinus...

 

[Archie_tect]

....they had to invent some special rowlocks on the dinghy so I could scull it along with one oar at the back.

Well if we're talking rowlocks, with one oar up your back...

 

[rich p]

Very rare those Mycteria margerinus...

10/10

 

[Aperitif]

...could have been spreading its weight on the anchor leg rich...