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I remember a girlfriend in grade school making fun of me because I pronounced all my "wh-" words as "hw."
It was only later (high school?) that I learned that that was the original way!
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I pronounced all my "wh-" words as "hw." ??
Using your ex. above, would that be something like huh-wine?
Did/do you ever put the h back in, as in huh-whine, do you know?
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It's just one of my . . . aspirations!
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Augh! CB, come here a minute--I have something for you...
Getting somewhat back on topic: I sure wish the other word for emotion or touch was spelled fell, 'cause that's how I type it, about 90% of the time! And I vote for changing extremely to extrememly.
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Coffeebean, forgive me, but ROTFLMAO!!
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Will Whom become extinct?
one favorite bit i stumbled across in a grammar book said:
whom is never correct. if you have used it correctly, you should recast the sentence to use WHO, rather than whom. If you are unsure that you have used it correctly, it is more important to recast the sentence to eleminate the use of whom.
now i always use whom correctly.. i never use it!
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In reply to:
whom is never correct. if you have used it correctly, you should recast the sentence to use WHO, rather than whom.
And did this tome say why whom is never correct? Did it explain why this perfectly valid word is so egregious that one should rework sentences just to avoid using it. Did it suggest an alternative title for Ernest's book?
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It's all a bit like my personal bugbear - the tendency to use 'myself' due to the existential fear of 'me' in business writing. Nobody seems to want to use 'me', and because they're all deathly afraid of misusuing 'I', every personal pronoun is of the 'myself' form. It is ugly, awkward, uneuphonious and just plain wrong.
Ah well....
cheer
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To which I will simply add that "uneuphonious" is eminently self-descriptive.
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