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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 18 of 72 1 2 … 16 17 18 19 20 … 71 72 Go to page... Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now tsuwm #209901 03/04/13 07:37 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Thanks tsuwm, you saved me from a second embarrassment. Now if you will kindly suppy the two words needed to continue this thread you will be our Humphrey DeForest Bogart. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now jenny jenny #209902 03/04/13 08:48 PM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass tsuwm Carpal Tunnel tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 10,542 this too shall pass APRICITY ARISTOLOGY (from the pages of the wwftd dictionary ) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now tsuwm #209903 03/04/13 11:15 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague a peach enjoying a spell of apricity only shortly could live this warming felicity the brotherhood of aristology took quick care of its pathology and then granted the fruit authenticity MEWL MORTADELLA Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now BranShea #209907 03/05/13 10:56 AM Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK Rhubarb Commando old hand Rhubarb Commando old hand Joined: Nov 2011 Posts: 1,075 Lancaster, UK A great poem, Branny - and you don't even like limericks! Here's a hymn to Italian Food: The mortadella’s smoky flavour Is one I’m delighted to savour; So don’t mewl or puke If that’s what I cook Try it – it’s bound to find favour! EVANGELICAL - EVEREST I'm immortal until proven otherwise Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now Rhubarb Commando #209909 03/05/13 07:23 PM Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague It was the challenge made me betray my solemn oath. Lancashire alas is too high up there to make a dinner call. On with the good shepherd's work. EVANGELICAL - EVEREST Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now BranShea #209916 03/06/13 04:25 AM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi English cheek knows no bounds they name our things in English The tallest things of other's are named in English's veriest. Some call it Deodungha Some call it Chomolunga Me being evangelical I refuse to call it Mount Everest . HOUSE ORGAN - HUH Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now jenny jenny #209949 03/09/13 06:29 AM Joined: May 2010 Posts: 963 Alaska Tromboniator old hand Tromboniator old hand Joined: May 2010 Posts: 963 Alaska In proofreading our staff media The new editor sneered with a "Huh!" Seems I'd spoiled our house organ, So got sacked by this gorgon Just because I'd misspelled the word "the." TRUMP –TRYST Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now Tromboniator #209955 03/10/13 03:09 AM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Damned wench! Does not the gorgon know that you are an AWAD award-winning limerickist? Make that gorgon beech cite the rule for the spoken use of "thee" or "thuh" for the written "the". As for me here is a song by Rice Miller I use as a mnemonic...* There was an animal called the goat, he butted his way on the Supreme Court "Let him go, please, please, let him go" 'cause he worked so hard you can't use him in yo' court no mo' Judge give him five hours to get out of town, he got five miles down the road and committed another crime That's when the high sheriff happened to be caming along, and caught the billy goat eating up the old farmer's corn High sheriff takes the billy goat to the county jail, but the desk sergeant said "I'll go his bail" Let him go. * thee thuh Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now wofahulicodoc #209959 03/10/13 04:55 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont re. jj Is it worth asking what you're on about? Only one of those "the"s is usually thee, and you marked it with the wrong color, if I'm interpreting your legend correctly. formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now Buffalo Shrdlu #209965 03/11/13 02:01 PM Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi J jenny jenny veteran jenny jenny veteran J Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 1,554 Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Originally Posted By: Buffalo Shrdlu re. jj Is it worth asking what you're on about? Only one of those "the"s is usually thee, and you marked it with the wrong color, if I'm interpreting your legend correctly. I dunno Buffalo, I guess it is worth whatever you determine. I used Rice Miller's lyrics to suggest determinates for the two everyday enunciations of the word "the"... 1) our regional and local manners of speaking 2) the as thee specific directive and the as thuh not-so specific 3) thuh casual as opposed to thee formal 4) for lyrical reasons But mainly to emphasize that there are no rules for correctly pronouncing "the". _______________________________________________ TRUMP - TRYST Last edited by jenny jenny; 03/11/13 03:09 PM. Reason: to continue Sparta's Game Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 18 of 72 1 2 … 16 17 18 19 20 … 71 72 Go to page... Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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