AGEOD Forums

Any of you who can read these lines correctly you get a cookie. For you English speaking I would be surprised if you could read all these correctly the first time through each sentence. I almost managed to without changing the sentence after I read it initially but did get tongue twisted on a couple of them.

http://www.joppeluiten.nl/SPOTDICHT%20OVER%20MOEILIJKE%20UITSPRAAK%20VAN%20ENGELS.htm

Cough
Rough
Bough
Through
Dough

Yay English.

We also have the same thing in french

- Un chasseur qui chassait fit sécher ses chaussettes sur une souche sèche.

- Combien sont ces six saucisson-ci? Ces six saucisson-ci sont six sous. Si ces six saucisson-ci sont six sous, ces six saucissons-si sont trop chèrs.

- Un patissier qui patissait chez un tapissier qui tapissait, dit un jour au tapissier qui tapissait: vaut-il mieux patisser chez un tapissier qui tapisse ou tapisser chez un patissier qui patisse

- Un dragon gradé dégrade un gradé dragon

- Je suis ce que je suis et si je suis ce que je suis, qu'est-ce que je suis?

Here in Britain we have even invented a few place names just to cause our 'English speaking' American chums some confusion. Leicester square comes to mind as one.

Hobbes wrote:Here in Britain we have even invented a few place names just to cause our 'English speaking' American chums some confusion. Leicester square comes to mind as one.

When I went to London, which is much better than anything in the states that I've encountered thus far, I was baffled and amused by how two people can speak english to one another, yet each person gives this blank stare of "what on earth did he just say?"

kyle wrote:When I went to London, which is much better than anything in the states that I've encountered thus far, I was baffled and amused by how two people can speak english to one another, yet each person gives this blank stare of "what on earth did he just say?"

Very nice of you to comment so favourably on our fair city! I must say I thought Boston and Chicago were also fine places to spend time. My wife is American and I have given up speaking on the phone to her family as they seem unable to understand what I say - however when we get together in the States and we are face to face they seem to understand me far better.

(To the Americans eternal credit her Dad always gets me a few bottles of Newcastle Brown (although he does put them in the fridge before I arrive )

Chris

One of my favourites:

Le ver vert est dans le verre

Hobbes wrote:Here in Britain we have even invented a few place names just to cause our 'English speaking' American chums some confusion. Leicester square comes to mind as one.

The same is done in the states. I have yet to find anyone in Britain who can correctly pronounce Michigan.

It was George Bernard Shaw who given the credit for saying that the United States and England were two nations separated by a common language.