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#209966 - 03/11/13 02:11 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Lancaster, UK OK, I agree that we don't need no steenkin' roolz but -
over this side of the pond, the general practice, even in 'street-talk', is that words starting with a vowel sound are preceded by 'thee' and all others by 'thuh.' That is not what your colourful example, above, shows (as Buff rightly says.)
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#209968 - 03/11/13 03:12 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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Vermont The "rule" I learned was "thee" before a vowel, "thuh" otherwise, with, of course, a few exceptions. (There are always exceptions...)
As RC says.
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#209970 - 03/11/13 03:23 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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Land of the Flat Water Originally Posted By: Rhubarb CommandoOK, I agree that we don't need no steenkin' roolz but -
over this side of the pond, the general practice, even in 'street-talk', is that words starting with a vowel sound are preceded by 'thee' and all others by 'thuh.' That is not what your colourful example, above, shows (as Buff rightly says.)
I've always subscribed to the same, except "thee" when
used in emphasis: "That was the (thee) best dinner I've ever had".
----please, draw me a sheep----
#209971 - 03/11/13 05:00 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: LukeJavan8]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Well now boys, is not sectional diversity wonderful? How rigid are the (pronounced thuh) uh, arbitrary rules over in England and how richly is the (pronounced thee or thuh according to whim) English Language used here in the ever-evolving southern South.
Here, you see, we drawl but conserve our words. Nuance, pitch, so forth, and et cetera are all incorporated into a mishmash of meanings and this is why our words are alive and yours are becoming dead.
#209973 - 03/11/13 07:01 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: jenny jenny]
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Netherlands, the Hague how richly is the (pronounced thee or thuh according to whim) English Language used here in the ever-evolving southern South.
That's why the rest of the world some little once in a while has a hard time reading you.
TRUMP-TRYST
#209984 - 03/12/13 01:03 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: BranShea]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi Maybe, Branshe. Or perhaps they are just stolid.
Jump Donald Trump you are slipping in the ratings
Find a frump Donald Trump the ratings are abating
Tryst her hire her
Admire her fire her
Hump Donald Trump the whole wide world is waiting
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#210046 - 03/17/13 12:02 AM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: jenny jenny]
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Alaska There once was a world-famous heiress
Who flew off to party in Paris.
She fell in with a hepcat
Who pampered her, 'cep' that
His acts were designed to embarrass.
COOKIE – COPILOT
#210075 - 03/21/13 07:40 AM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: Tromboniator]
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi The Copilot was the vet the pilot was the rookie
Their mission: Bomb the munitions plant at Kwazooki
The pilot had a boxlunch; a chicken and a cookie
The co-pilot's lunch was to bomb the plant at Kwazooki
He said:
"Lookie, Zero, nine oclock!" and stole the rookie's cookie.
FARMER - FATALITY
#210076 - 03/21/13 02:49 PM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: jenny jenny]
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Land of the Flat Water Loverly.
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#210115 - 03/26/13 06:37 AM Re: Sparteye's Game, only it should load faster now [Re: jenny jenny]
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Alaska There was once, in a rustic locality,
A sodbuster of utmost banality.
Thought himself a great charmer,
This troglodyte farmer.
His results were cupidic fatality.
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