Words that should be changed

[Beebo]

I dont like the word LOSE, (as in not win) It just looks wrong.

Rose, Nose, Hose, are all spelt and pronounced in a similar way, but Lose is the odd one out, as it's pronounced like News, or Snooze or Booze.or even Loos

So I say kick it out of the dictionary. Let's make a list of words that are just plain wrong. the english language must have plenty of these.

 

[biggs682]

mine would be why do we have to have now & know closely followed by anything & anythink

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Yay, get rid of lose and everyone's a winner!

 

[Sandra6]

I was going to write the word fractious earlier, but it just looked wrong, so I didn't. It should probably go.
The mood I'm in today I could probably get by with only a few choice words anyway.

 

[ASC1951]

On the BBC this morning I heard Peter Day presenting a piece about the commercial use of "unpersonned aircraft". WTF is next? Personhole covers? Safe Personhandling Regulations?

 

[Beebo]

On the BBC this morning I heard Peter Day presenting a piece about the commercial use of "unpersonned aircraft". WTF is next? Personhole covers? Safe Personhandling Regulations?

Someone at the BBC needs to PTFU and stop this silly use of person instead of man.

 

[Shortmember]

Why isn't 'slough' pronounced 'sluff,' like tough and rough-and why isn't 'cough' pronounced cow? The list of anomalies in the English language is enough/enow to drive one crazy.

 

[Kies]

I live a few miles East of Slough .... we call it "sluff"

 

[Fnaar]

I live a few miles East of Slough .... we call it "sluff"

John Bunyan: (OK, not about the Slough we know and love, but it could be...)
'This miry Slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore is it called the Slough of Despond: for still as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place; and this is the reason of the badness of this ground.

 

[User6179]

I dont like the word LOSE, (as in not win) It just looks wrong.

Rose, Nose, Hose, are all spelt and pronounced in a similar way, but Lose is the odd one out, as it's pronounced like News, or Snooze or Booze.or even Loos

So I say kick it out of the dictionary. Let's make a list of words that are just plain wrong. the english language must have plenty of these.

You see loose instead of lose a lot on tinternet , I say lets lose lose

 

[XRHYSX]

WHY ENGLISH IS SO HARD

We'll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
If I speak of my foot and show you my feet,
And I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,
Yet hat in the plural would never be hose,
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine: she, shis and shim!

 

[swee'pea99]

Pulchritude. Such an ugly word.

 

[ohnovino]

Though, through, thought, thorough: I spell them incorrectly every single time (including writing this post)

 

[Archie_tect]

'Much' and 'any'.... silly spellings.

 

[Bollo]

Why isn't 'slough' pronounced 'sluff,'.....

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