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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
the big brown dic. I am holding as I type
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How did your cybersex leak into this dignified conversation about linguistics?!?!?!!
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Thus, the dic.'s set out more than one acceptable way to say a word
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Well, of course, it's
acceptable- everything's acceptable these days. I was in a business meeting the other day and the "guru" that the company brought it to take it to the "next level" used the phrase "
whole nother" in front of fifty people and no one (except me) batted an eye. Alas, my sweet Jason, I am just like Galadriel- I shall diminish and fade into the West.
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Originally Posted by irishgrl
WRONG! and to PROVE IT:
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Oh, you don't know anything...
Who says "almond" what way.
Silent a: musically, realistically, logically
Silent b: thumb, dumb, climb, debt, doubt, subtle
Silent c: indict, muscle, Tucson, Connecticut
Silent d: handkerchief, sandwich, handsome, Wednesday
Silent e: bridge, serve, clue, many many others
Silent f: halfpenny
Silent g: light, sign, diaphragm
Silent h: hour, honor, heir, exhaust, exhibition, Birmingham
Silent i: business
Silent k: knife, knock, know, knead
Silent l: walk, talk, salmon,
almond, calm, yolk
Silent m: mnemonic
Silent n: autumn, solemn, condemn, column, hymn
Silent p: corps, pneumonia, coup, receipt, cupboard, clapboard, Campbell
Silent r: many in non-rhotic English
Silent s: island, aisle, viscount
Silent t: Christmas, whistle, castle, listen, soften, often, rapport, ballet
Silent u: guest, tongue, catalogue, guide, guitar
Silent w: sword, answer, two, write, whole, whore, Greenwich, Norwich
Silent z: rendezvous, chez, laissez-faire