Barney & Clyde by Gene Weingarten; Dan Weingarten & David Clark for August 16, 2012

  1. Nebulous100
    Nebulous Premium Member about 12 years ago

    As the Great Dr. Seuss put it, The tough coughs as he ploughs the dough.andMr. Hough, your bough is in the trough.

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    Stephen Gilberg  about 12 years ago

    What are the other three ways?

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    davidh48  about 12 years ago

    Does anyone here remember how to spell “fish” without using the same letters?

    Giving back: longest (English) word I’ve found with fewest vowels, “churchly”. My atheist friend had challenged me (grin).

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    finale  about 12 years ago

    Psych

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    jimkrantz  about 12 years ago

    Shortest English word with all five vowels: sequoia

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    runar  about 12 years ago

    Part of the problem is that most people confuse letters and sounds. There are 33 different phonemes (sounds) in English (and even that varies from dialect to dialect), and only twenty-six letters to represent them. The letter ’þ" disappeared from the English alphabed and is now spelled ’th", but that same spelling stands for two different sounds.

    It also explains the nonexistent word “ye” (as in “Ye Olde Gifte Shoppe”). it was spelled “þe”, but in handwritten manuscripts, the “þ” was sometimes mistaken for a “y”. This is also part of the reason “þ” was dropped.

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