the horrors of an ESL/EFL student.

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four is with a U but forty is without. that really sucked.

the whole GH thing!

when BLE spells "bel" and TRE spells "ter" WHAT THE HELL!?!?!?!?!?

i think English is a way for Americans to passive aggresively show their hate for foreign immigrants!
 
FreeFloat:
And squash don't fly, either.

And noses run, fridges run, stockings run and Olympic marathoners run. But they're all different too.


My dad said I was built upside down; my nose runs and my feet smell!
 
baltimoron: here, it's easy...
If it goes by truck, it's a shipment;
If it goes by ship, its cargo;
If it goes by car, its a delivery;
Unless it is special delivery, then it goes on the truck!
 
Why is dyslexia so hard to spell?
Was someone having a joke when they created that one?
 
How about pronunciation? Shouldn't both and bother be the same? And moth and mother? Will the garbage crew refuse the refuse?
 
How about these? Try to read them aloud:

The bandage was wound around the wound.
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.
We must polish the Polish furniture.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.
At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.
I did not object to the object.
The insurance was invalid for the invalid.
There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
They were too close to the door to close it.
The buck does funny things when the does are present.
A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.
To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt.
If you have a rough cough, climbing can be tough when going through the bough on a tree!

Let's face it - English is a crazy language.
 
A flea and a fly in a flue
found they had nothing to do

Said the flea let's fly, said the fly let's flee
So they flew through the flaw in the flue

Some words are made strange to indicate origin. Japanese words have their own phonetics. Things like gaijin (pronounced like guy-gin). Most -re words sounding like -er are French, IIRC, like spectre or macabre.

I think the most versatile group of letters is ough.

I thought it was tough to squeeze through the gap by the trough. I coughed just as the archer shot the bough with his bow from the bow of the boat. Did I forget any sounds?

edit: I forgot the best part of flee/fly:
You can flee or you can fly, you flew or your fled, but either way you took flight. ???? :06:
 
Oh wow. Like my Spanish teacher always says Tu Americanos locos! I think the worst one though is i before e except after c and if it makes an a sound or maybe that night the knight went to the fight. American-English is stupid but we all speak it fairly well except us people down in Utah. ehehehehe :wink:
 
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