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Page 18 of 44 < 1 2 ... 16 17 18 19 20 ... 43 44 > Go to page... Topic Options #209901 - 03/04/13 02:37 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: tsuwm] jenny jenny veteran Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 1554 Loc: 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. Top #209902 - 03/04/13 03:48 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: jenny jenny] tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10538 Loc: this too shall pass APRICITY ARISTOLOGY (from the pages of the wwftd dictionary ) Top #209903 - 03/04/13 06:15 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: tsuwm] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5295 Loc: 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 Top #209907 - 03/05/13 05:56 AM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: BranShea] Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1075 Loc: 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 Top #209909 - 03/05/13 02:23 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Rhubarb Commando] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5295 Loc: 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 Top #209916 - 03/05/13 11:25 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: BranShea] jenny jenny veteran Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 1554 Loc: 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 Top #209949 - 03/09/13 01:29 AM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: jenny jenny] Tromboniator old hand Registered: 05/10/10 Posts: 954 Loc: 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 Top #209955 - 03/09/13 10:09 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Tromboniator] jenny jenny veteran Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 1554 Loc: 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 Top #209959 - 03/10/13 12:55 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: wofahulicodoc] Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7210 Loc: 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... Top #209965 - 03/11/13 10:01 AM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu] jenny jenny veteran Registered: 06/05/10 Posts: 1554 Loc: 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 Edited by jenny jenny (03/11/13 11:09 AM) Edit Reason: to continue Sparta's Game Top Page 18 of 44 < 1 2 ... 16 17 18 19 20 ... 43 44 > Go to page... Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview 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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