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[Kisseena]

Read this poem out loud.

Now go cry in a corner.

 

 

 

I mispronounced too many of these words. :C

 

[Veteran]

I started off okay but then I think my brain became tired! I think 'bomb' is when it all came apart! XD

[Wolf O'Donnell]

It would be fine if the poet didn't put words that obviously didn't rhyme but looked as if they rhymed together! Oh, by the way... how do you guys pronounce "issue"?

[Twinrova]

"ih-shoe"

[SteveT]

This is what happens when you:

 

a) Get invaded by Normans and marginalize the native language for a few hundred years

b) Let scholars change spellings to make it look like words had Latin roots

c) Don't ever refresh spelling to keep up with the evolution of language

d) All of the above

[Twinrova]

Reading this thing makes me feel bad for the kids I'm trying to teach how to read at work. It's a wonder anyone actually does learn all this crap!

[Hana-Nezumi]

It would be fine if the poet didn't put words that obviously didn't rhyme but looked as if they rhymed together! Oh, by the way... how do you guys pronounce "issue"?

I would say ee-shuu or ih-shoo or ish-oo depending on whether I'm talking about a problem, an volume of a magazine/periodical/etc, or using it as verb that's a synonym for distribute, respectively.

[Veteran]

This is what happens when you:

 

a) Get invaded by Normans and marginalize the native language for a few hundred years

b) Let scholars change spellings to make it look like words had Latin roots

c) Don't ever refresh spelling to keep up with the evolution of language

d) All of the above

 

Take it like a man, Authorman.

[Sir Deimos]

I did fairly well. Hahah. Tough though.

[Kisseena]

I've been saying preface wrong my whole life. I've been saying pre-face.
And a hiccough is pronounced like "hiccup."
And I didn't even try terpsichorie. I looked it up and know how to say it now, though.

[Wolf O'Donnell]

Yeah, except I keep hearing the BBC presenters say "ih-syue" on Radio 4.

[Chukchi Husky]

And a hiccough is pronounced like "hiccup."

 

Hiccup is spelt hiccough?

[Kisseena]

I'm assuming it used to be spelled like "hiccough" and then with the evolution of language the spelling changed.

[deep]

Pffft. This was super easy. I recorded the whole thing in one take.

 

Edited by deep, 10 December 2013 - 04:02 AM.

[Kisseena]

Before I listened I was thinking, "Well exsqueeze me Mr. English GOSH." Bahahahahaha

OH MY GOD ZACH.
At first I was like, "HOW IS HE NOT LAUGHING?!" and then I heard you giggle.

A+ that was fantastic.

[deep]

I was worried it was going to come off like that and nobody would click it and everyone would think I was a big jerk.

[Kisseena]

EVERYONE SHOULD CLICK ON IT.

Because it's hilarious. 

[lord-of-shadow]

It would be fine if the poet didn't put words that obviously didn't rhyme but looked as if they rhymed together! Oh, by the way... how do you guys pronounce "issue"?

 

That's the point!