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Denzil Tregallion Posts: 1764 Joined: 26th May 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 11:32 on 15th June 2008 I think Andy is wrong! |
Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 11:39 on 15th June 2008 I think I am as well! I'll put a pound on it Denzil, you old fraud you. |
Posts: Joined: 1st Jan 1970 | Denzil is right! Andy is wrong!! It's 'Martin's television is broken' and Andy Edwards's coming home (is coming home). Peter, don't ask me about twins....I'm confused enough as it is |
| Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 13:08 on 15th June 2008 He he!! I always was c..p at English Sue! |
Ray Stear Posts: 1930 Joined: 25th Apr 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:02 on 15th June 2008 what are you like with 'Cornish' Andy? Ray |
Paul Hilton  Posts: 2605 Joined: 21st Nov 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:27 on 15th June 2008 Yasser--you'll regularly find English words pronounced the same, despite different spelling and thus meanings. The three found in countless forums is-- there ( location, for example) they're ( they are) and their ( ownership of something.). The spelling "there" is regularly used for all three, and the other two don't seem to exist much these days. A US friend has a forum for US students and they always seem to have trouble spelling the word--add ( short for addition ). Without hardly an exception, they always spell it-- ad ( short for advertisement ). A number of US kids seem to be increasintgly spelling their words phonetically, and must wonder what they're now being taught over there? It certainly wasn't like that in the '60s. |
Peter Evans Posts: 3864 Joined: 20th Aug 2006 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:40 on 15th June 2008 Have you noticed the word two = 2. To, as in going to and too as in also. Most people now seem to drop the extra o in too. I've got a headach now!!!!!! He he he |
| Peter Evans Posts: 3864 Joined: 20th Aug 2006 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:43 on 15th June 2008 I am never sure if a word has double letters in it, so I just put double in to be on the safe side. Welsh is a lot easier to understand. |
Jo Adams Posts: 231 Joined: 23rd Sep 2006 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:44 on 15th June 2008 On 15th June 2008 14:39, Paul Hilton wrote:
Not just the US kids Paul - blame the mobiles! |
L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 14:48 on 15th June 2008 Well I know I'M right lol too many to's and too many two's and apostophe's and spellings of the same sounding words but meaning different things, OH MY GOD I'm glad I was bought up learning English at school and don't have to learn it as a second language! But at least those of us who were dragged up in the 50's/60's/70's were taught grammer and spellings and the like, unlike these days.(and if I've made any mistakes here it's not me it's my pc  ) |
