Omg! I can’t believe how dumb I am 😆

amother

Poppy

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 6:09 pm

I recently noticed that the dove bar soap has a picture of a dove! I thoughts its just a squiggle till now

amother

Freesia

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 6:21 pm

we learned the years of the month chant as:

30 days have September, April, June and November
All the rest have 31 except for February which has 28
But leap year coming once in four
Gives February one day more

amother

Pansy

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 6:30 pm

We sang it:

Thirty days has September,
April June and November,
All the rest have thirty one,
February stays alone,
It has twenty eight days clear,
And twenty nine on each leap year.

amother

DarkViolet

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 6:42 pm

amother Hydrangea wrote:

Brits say antee, semee etc. I belive. Americans say anteye, semeye

Americans say it either way.

And either can be pronounced eye-ther or ee-ther.

Bubby6

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 6:43 pm

amother Poppy wrote:

I recently noticed that the dove bar soap has a picture of a dove! I thoughts its just a squiggle till now

Is it dove, as in wove, or duv?

theoneandonly

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 6:59 pm

amother Poppy wrote:

I recently noticed that the dove bar soap has a picture of a dove! I thoughts its just a squiggle till now

In that vein, DS recently pointed out to me that the Amazon logo has an arrow from the A to the Z because they have everything you need from A to Z.

amother

Seafoam

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 7:12 pm

amother Scarlet wrote:

Bingo!
Did you always know that?

And if any of you are interested in some more little known functions of every day items here you go....

https://www.boredpanda.com/eve.....pose/

Omg I never noticed there was an arrow!! I must go check now!

amother

Tan

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 7:23 pm

sequoia wrote:

The tune is by Mozart. There are a lot of different songs to it, but the original song is:

A vous dirai-je maman
Ce qui cause mon tourment
Papa veux que je raisonne
Comme les grands personnes
Moi je dis que les bonbons
Vales mieux que la raison

Unlikely to the point of probably being false. Mozart, along with many of his contemporaries, used variations of this tube in their own music. We have no indication that he composed it, but we do have evidence that it predated him.

gr82no

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 7:36 pm

amother Hotpink wrote:

The look on my friends face when she realised how epitome is pronounced in 11th grade... LOL

Lol I read it wrong because thats what o think ot should be but when I reread it I read it correctly

happyclappy

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 7:36 pm

amother Bergamot wrote:

we learned this song without the last line.

Its a rhyme rather than a song.
The last 2 lines go

"Except february alone which has 28 days clear
And 29 in a leap year"

Tao

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 7:49 pm

schoolbus wrote:

Do u pronounce vase, like vayse or vuz??

Like the song in Hercules LOL

amother

Brunette

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 7:50 pm

When I was around 10 years old I discovered tha5 prunes and plums were the same fruit. I still remember the shock of the revelation.

amother

Daylily

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 7:53 pm

schoolbus wrote:

Do u pronounce vase, like vayse or vuz??

I pronounce it vuz, never heard anyone pronouncing it vayse

schoolbus

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 7:58 pm

amother Daylily wrote:

I pronounce it vuz, never heard anyone pronouncing it vayse

I definitely heard many people call it that What

ittsamother

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 8:10 pm

amother Daylily wrote:

I pronounce it vuz, never heard anyone pronouncing it vayse

I grew up calling it a vahz, but in Madeline it rhymes with face, so I know some people pronounce it that way.

BusyBoys

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 8:11 pm

Bubby6 wrote:

Is it dove, as in wove, or duv?

Duv (that’s what I say..)

amother

Brickred

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 8:27 pm

Amelia Bedelia wrote:

Anyone pronounce iron as "eye-ron"? I once had a mature older English speaker stop me at a store, asking me an opinion about a dress's fabric for her granddaughter, if it would need to be "eye-ronned."

I have an aunt in her 70s who grew up in Canada (I think Toronto) who pronounces it like that. I always assumed it was a Canadian thing.. I live in tri-state and my mother is British so I'm used to words being pronounced differently.
Any Canadians want to weigh in?!?

chanatron1000

Tue, Mar 05 2024, 8:37 pm

amother Scarlet wrote:

I wonder when all the people who write/say "c/w/should of" instead of "c/w/should have" are going to realise. Who wants to tell them? Wink

It's actually instead of "could've, would've, should've," which is pronounced the same as the misspelling.