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Lilli 5 years ago

*mind blown*

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To be fair, many linguists would easily find a logical answer to most of the problems presented in these messages, as English language has a lot of nuances (like words being borrowed from Latin and Greek, or the fact that some words had their origins lost or they ceased to be used in spoken language). However, that doesn't mean that they still don't fail to confuse people trying to learn the language, as even the most sound explanation might seem nonsensical when the original problem could be solved by, well... changing the language? Ah, let's leave this for the linguists to figure out and non-native speakers to be confused about, right?

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HANS 5 years ago

You just ruined the ending for me!

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Chicken Pox 5 years ago

This is genius!

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PyroarRanger 5 years ago

Oh s**t.

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SykesDaMan 5 years ago

It took me a while to remember which one is positive and which one is negative between horriffic and terrfic...

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Lilli 5 years ago

I feel you dude

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Kaisu 5 years ago

This is definitely really interesting!

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Carson Skjerdal 5 years ago

That is incredible ha ha

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So Dou 5 years ago

We have the exact same word in french and with the same meaning ... others meaning too ;)

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Yoel Schvarcz 5 years ago

In french it's called Double-V

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Kaisu 5 years ago

English pronunciation was invented by Satan

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Full Name 5 years ago

What profession is a handyman in then?

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Artex Gorilla 5 years ago

Brits also use 'Quite' in a sarcastic manner if agreeing with someone (who they don't agree with).

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Kaisu 5 years ago

This is my kind of pun

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juice 5 years ago

no one knows

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Eirik Johnsbråten 5 years ago

I sent a cent with a peculiar scent.

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Sherbaan Naab 5 years ago

Two questions, same answer: because you don't wash properly.

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PyroarRanger 5 years ago

America explain... I am confusion!!

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Aileen 5 years ago (edited)

I’ve also heard, “I before E except when your feisty foreign neighbor Keith leisurely receives eight counterfeit beige sleighs from caffeinated atheist weightlifters. Weird.”

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Steven Cook 5 years ago

The last two lines may read incorrect until said...

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HANS 5 years ago

I'd rather not do either or do neither.

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Emily Ashcraft 5 years ago

one is used by the people of sarcasm and one is used by regular people

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Bleh 5 years ago

This made more sense than it should've

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Aldhissla VargTimmen 5 years ago

There's a broadcasted spelling competition for the Dutch language as well ^^ Dutch is easier though, makes more sense :)

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Tina Hugh 5 years ago

If this isn’t true, it should be

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Kaisu 5 years ago

When I hear someone say "the other day", I assume it's something within a month. I never think someone would mean something they did like a year ago

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Full Name 5 years ago

I wonder if uncovered wagons were the first form of mass transportation so you literally were "on" it.

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Ben Smith 5 years ago

Y’all.

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Carrie Henderson 5 years ago

There is in Scotland: "Youse". True.

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Mayrita Rodriguez Declet 5 years ago

"Who didn't flush the toilet after they've had a sh!t?" "It wasn't me." "Well it was fock!ng one of youse! Disgustan'!."

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Evil Little Thing 5 years ago

Or if more than 2: All Y'all

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Jakub Roháč 5 years ago

You is actually plural. Thou used to be singular. So people are actually using formal form all the time.

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Laura Ní Shuilleabháin 5 years ago

We use the word "ye" in south of Ireland. I think its "yous" dublin upwards.

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Cassie 5 years ago

And the lesser-known "y'uns" which I believe is a regional term used only in certain parts of the Appalachian mountains.

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Ivy Ruonakoski 5 years ago

That's not English. That's American.

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Bob Beltcher 5 years ago

You all = Y'all. Two youths = two utes.

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Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago

"Y'all" is an americanised contraction of the attempt to create a plural version of "you" in more modern "english" ie "you all". "You all" was then contracted to "y'all". Ironically, it's now often simply replacing "you", and now "all'a'y'all" (all of you all) is now being used for 2nd-person-plural. "Y'all" derived from non-english-speakers, trying to adapt their native-language grammar to the english language. :)

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Mary Stiles 5 years ago

That's Texas language, y'all!

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Kathy Baylis 5 years ago (edited)

Or in some places “youse”. In others “you’ns”

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Ashley Wright 5 years ago

Strictly southern.

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Time Itself 5 years ago

y'all can be singular as well. This is where y'alls or y'all's comes in

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Suzanne Smith 5 years ago

It's youse here in Aus :D

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Teri Donovan 5 years ago

All y'all.

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Nathan Gouge 5 years ago

You'ns.

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Ringo Starkey 5 years ago

All y'all.

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Suzanne Haigh 3 years ago

Not correct English

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Star McSnatch 5 years ago

A) Y'all is specifically Texas talk, lol. B) Y'all is just a contraction of 'you all'

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Bettye McKee 5 years ago

Youens

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BusLady 5 years ago

Also said as you all in some southern states..

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Cristina Sacchi 5 years ago

😂😂😂😂😂

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Ashley Galyen 5 years ago

Ye has existed for while..

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BobbyK 5 years ago

of "youse" guys

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Edgar Rops 5 years ago

That's because it is already plural. Singular is thee/thou

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Katarina Kay 5 years ago

You is both singular AND plural

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Full Name 5 years ago

You've clearly never talked to anybody in an Italian neighbourhood in Brooklyn.

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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago

It is actually the other way around. ""Thy" is an English word that means "your" in the second person singular. English used to have a distinction between singular and plural in the second person, such that we had the following: Singular: thou, thee, thy. Plural: ye, you, your." From: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1083/what-does-thy-mean

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kytetiger 5 years ago

In french or spanish, people still uses the equivalent of "thy"

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Alec Cawley 5 years ago

No, it has no singular. Or rather, the singular thou is obsolete

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Dave Walker 5 years ago

"youse" in Scouse fits that niche

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Jeff Christensen 5 years ago

"You" is the plural of either "thou" or "thee", but these are no longer used.

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Jennifer Prescott 5 years ago

In French, "Vous" can be a formal you (one person) or a plural you (group of people). English used to use "thou" for singular and "you" for a group.

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Yoel Schvarcz 5 years ago

What about Middle-English?

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Jo Choto 5 years ago

Well, technically, you is the plural form of thou, but thou just fell out of use and everything became you, which is why it takes a plural verb form. In English, verbs don't really conjugate, except for adding an s to third person singular (he loveS, she danceS, it stinkS). So we don't notice that you is plural, except for the verb to be which does have some conjugation, and there we see that you is definitely the plural form, same as other plurals, we and they. You are, we are, they are. It used to be I am, thou art, he is, we are, you are, they are.

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tuzdayschild 5 years ago

Depending on where youse from y'all might have a plural for you.

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Mama Panda 5 years ago

Sure it does...it's yous.

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Hael Smith 5 years ago

"you lot", "you guys", "gang", "my dudes" etc etc

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Magpie 5 years ago

Yous, or yous mob in Australia

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Kat Hoth 5 years ago

Either Y'all or All y'all.

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Betsy Gilliland 5 years ago

Except in parts of the South (Texas?) where y'all is singular and all y'all is the plural

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Willow 5 years ago

You can make it plural by adding two or all. Example: "you two" or "you all/all of you"

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Berdarien Brown 5 years ago

Youens.

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Berdarien Brown 5 years ago

Although this only applies south of the Ohio river

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Stephen Harris 4 months ago

Yous... you guys...

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Mary Dodd 5 months ago

In the North East of England it's Youse.

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Mary Dodd 5 months ago

Where I come from it's you's.

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Dustin Sisson 3 years ago

y'all

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Zira Michelle (LoveoftheDark) 3 years ago

it does so. Y'all.

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Pierre Bunnington 3 years ago

We do in Liverpool, you’ll hear yous used

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Chas Boline 3 years ago

"Y'all". You're welcome.

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Jimmy Axwell 3 years ago

Youse, in Australia 😂😂😂

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Sharon Reid 3 years ago

In Glasgow we would say youse as the plural of you

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Mats Iversen 3 years ago

Youse?

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Cheryl 3 years ago

It does in Australia -"youse" 😂

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Mary Minenna 3 years ago

Youse or y’all are plural forms of you depending on if you are from the North or South. 😂

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Mia Sancto 3 years ago

Yous is plural for you, it’s grammatically correct to say “yous”

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Georgette Goldie 3 years ago

you is plural

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Kelly Countryman 3 years ago

In the south there is ya'all and you'ens (that's ya'all + two).

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Kelly Carns 3 years ago

The plural of you is y’all! :)

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Kelly Carns 3 years ago

The plural for you is y’all!

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Paul Beebe 3 years ago

In Boston it does...Youse

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Josh Tall 3 years ago

why would we need a plural for a word that intended as a singular?

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Aria 4 years ago

Yous. Y'all. Yuhs. I've heard all of these used

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Douglas Mosier 5 years ago

"you" IS the plural. the singular is "thee"

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Lynn Hansen 5 years ago

"ye"

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Belinda Berry 5 years ago

We do if you're from New York. It's Youse. As in, youse guys.

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Ellen Swithers 5 years ago

Come to N.E. Pennsylvania. Everyone says "yous". This makes my brain twitch. Especially when they actually type it out.

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Sarah Boudreau 5 years ago

Yous need to go Philly for this one

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Jean Ball 5 years ago

If you are Scouse it's youse

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Rikard Elfgren 5 years ago

You is the plural, the singular is thou.

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Patti Renwick Parrish 5 years ago

It does, "ya'll"!

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Pamela Stoltzfus 5 years ago

In the Southern states they do, it's YU'INS.

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Avital Pilpel 5 years ago

Actually, you *is* the plural. The singular is "thou". But since the plural "you" was an polite / formal way to address a single person, it became the standard and "thou" fell out of use.

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Bob Hunt 5 years ago

Same here in Australia, probably from our Scottish/Irish Convict heritage we use the term “Youse”.

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Louise Brigance 5 years ago

Archie Bunker had a plural...youse

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Karina Andersen 5 years ago

in English it's youse

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Stacy B 5 years ago

I don't understand how YOU is plural? If I'm asking my husband "babe did you eat?" If I'm asking my family the same question I'd say "did everyone eat or is anyone hungry?" The word YOU isn't a plural.

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David Vera 5 years ago

Yous

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David Vera 5 years ago

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Martina Juričková 5 years ago

THOU are incorrect. It is the singular that it doesnt have. YOU is the plural of the original THOU singular form.

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Martina Juričková 5 years ago

No, no, you're wrong. YOU does not have a singular, te original singular for of that word was THOU, YOU was plural.

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Sue Ryan 5 years ago

It does (quite wrongly) in the North East of England but is not necessarily used as the plural.

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Kat Khatib 5 years ago

In Baltimore, WE do! People say "Yous" all of the time! We are not known for our proper use of the English language!

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Amar Bayt Fawaz 5 years ago

The word "you" is indeed plural. It's default form is plural. I'll show you: "The cats run," vs "the cat runs." <-- When the doer ("cats") is plural, the verb doesn't have an "s," however, when the doer is singular ("cat"), the verb ends with a letter "s." Now consider the fact that "you run" is grammatically correct but "you runs" isn't. This implies that the word "you" is plural by default. It isn't unusual in many languages, such as my own mother tongue, Arabic, for a person to be addressed by the plural "you," out of respect (ex: salaamu alayKUM, minnu wa minKUM, etc). My guess is that there used to be some singular form of "you," (maybe "thou") but that as time went on, it became obsolete. After all, we don't use the word "thou" anymore.

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Lindy Mac 5 years ago

It blows MY mind that THINGS have a sex assigned to them in many languages. IE: French: la table (f), Le ciel (m) (sky) etc and THEN you have to have the adjective agree with the sex of the noun.

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Lindy Mac 5 years ago

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Mark lockstone 5 years ago

Yowse right bro

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Susan L. Miller 5 years ago

If youse is from Brooklyn dere is!

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Evie Gross 5 years ago

you all or y'all for short

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Jennifer Brekke 5 years ago

In New York it's yous guys.

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Stephen Hutchison 5 years ago

We do. We have two of them, actually, "thee" and "you" ... which are also incidentally useful as the singulars.

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Laura Crawley 5 years ago

Yous guys.... that was easy

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Eve Mclachlan 5 years ago

NZ: You's.

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moeless 5 years ago

Youse guys. Ya'll. All ya'll. You'uns.

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Viv Hart 5 years ago

I'm glad!

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katboxjanitor 5 years ago

Yous guys!

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Allison Wood 5 years ago

y'all

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Houston Carr 5 years ago

Y'all

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Mark CM 5 years ago (edited)

Because there is only 1 of you. And when used to address a group of people "Hey you lot, come here", you are addressing the group and there is only one group.

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okpkpkp 5 years ago

youse

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Shelli Aderman 5 years ago

“Youse Guys!”

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Gemma Lees 5 years ago

It's "you lot" in North West England.

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Chip Frenette 5 years ago

Youse

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Alex Noott 5 years ago

Well, ewes are female sheep and, as the language is already so confusing, we thought we'd just blow your mind with that one!

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George Utley 5 years ago

"You" can be either...

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Sue Prewitt 5 years ago

yous guys

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Jean Reynolds 5 years ago

It does. You is the plural word: "You are invited." The singular is "thou art." In Shakespeare's day, people were getting tired of making that distinction. To the dismay of grammarians, huge numbers of people began using "you" for one person: "You are my favorite aunt." Another singular/plural issue (one that goes back even further) is the singular "they": "If anyone needs a ticket, they should stop by the office." This one goes back to Caxton and appears in Shakespeare, Shaw, Chaucer, and many other writers.

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Linda Robinett 5 years ago

This came up when. I was learning German which has proper plurals for you. We had to translate it as "you all" since we were not from the South.

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bill marsano 5 years ago

Just don't reach for y'all, OK?

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Sandra Llewelyn 5 years ago

It does - it's you

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nala simba 5 years ago

There is, it is YOU,

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Mari Bryant 5 years ago (edited)

Youse.

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Elizabeth Stevens 5 years ago

You is plural, ye is singular.

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JD Cassavaugh 5 years ago

Y'ens

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Anne Germaine 5 years ago

oh ye of little faith :)

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Naomi Bells 5 years ago

You is the plural. Thee or thou is the singular

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Naomi Bells 5 years ago

You is the plural...Thee or thou is the singular

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Kylie Hopkins 5 years ago

Australians have an English plural for you.... it’s youse. Haha

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Chris Garrick 5 years ago

Clearly the writer of the above question has never spent time in the South.

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Mary Helmers 5 years ago

It does if you live in Texas. "Y'all" if you mean a few people. "All y'all" if you mean a whole BUNCH of people.

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Sue Ballingall 5 years ago

As we say in Philly Yous

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Derek O' Meara 5 years ago

In Dublin, Ireland; they say ‘Youze’ 😂 ☘️

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Ron Ashwill 5 years ago

It does in the south: y’all is singular, all y’all is plural

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Archie McDiarmid 5 years ago

As a proud Scot, youse couldn't be more wrong.

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Kirsten Affleck 5 years ago

In Scotland it's yous

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Kirsten Affleck 5 years ago

In Scottish it's yous

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JoeandElisa Arrigo 5 years ago

That’s because “you” used to be the plural form and “thou” was the singular form. Now people use “you” for the singular form and “yous” (horror or horrors!) for the plural form. Ain’t English grand!

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Emma Goudie 5 years ago

youse

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Vicki Nixon 5 years ago

Yous is a perfectly acceptable word in Scotland.

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John Seidel 5 years ago

Youse.

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Sara Stewart 5 years ago

You *is* the plural. The singular, "thou," fell out.

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Caroline Melzer 5 years ago

youse

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Col Finnie 5 years ago

But in Australian vernacular there is: "I love youse all.

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Christina Crowe 5 years ago

Y'all?

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Bean53 5 years ago

youse

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Andy Connor 5 years ago

It does. It is "youse".

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MajikDraygon 5 years ago

yous.

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Luke Bouley 5 years ago

sure it does, it's spelled the exact same way as "you"

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Mark Johanen 5 years ago

Amusing, but there are historical reasons. Originally, "you" was plural and the singular was "thou". But then people started using "you" to address important people like kings and noblemen. Maybe originally because they represented the nation, like you'd say "you" meaning all the people in the kingdom, not just the king. But eventually it became a sign of respect. (My speculation.) Either way, eventually it become polite to use the respectful "you" rather than "thou" for more and more people, until everyone was "you" and no one was "thou" and the word "thou" fell into dis-use.

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Id row 5 years ago

Because you is a singular person, an individual. If you want to qualify it as plural to refer to a group of people, that's when 'all of you' or 'you guys' comes into play. Or if you have a twangy accent, you can use 'y'all'.

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Peta Hurley-Hill 5 years ago

People say "Yous" in Australia ,but only Bogans .

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Janet Miller 5 years ago

sure it does. Youse. Or y'all. You guys. Gang.

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Gordon Dobie 5 years ago

Youse. In Irish English, this plural has a superplural form for addressing a larger number of people: Yousers.

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Angelina Bolanos 5 years ago

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Dione Trethewey 5 years ago

Youse

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Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago

"You" is the plural. The (original) singular forms are "thee", "though", "thy" and "thine" (depending on context).

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elfin 5 years ago

The plural would be "you." You (referring to a group of kids) should all get on the bus now.

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Jacquleen Payne 5 years ago

You’s, y’all, all y’alls. May be slang but still counts lol

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Krásnoočko Zelené 5 years ago

Actually, there is no *singular* of you. "You" is plural by default while "thee" would be the singular form, but it's rarely used today.

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Beau Haven 5 years ago

All y'alls

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Robin Pickering 5 years ago

Yous and youse is actually quite common. Also, ye is very common in Ireland.

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Marky Mark And The Funky Bunch 5 years ago

Colloquially people use the term: 'yous' on the east coast of Canada (Nova Scotia, Newfoundland)

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Scott Critchley 5 years ago

English might not have a plural form of you, but Aussie/Kiwi do (yous) and so do southern Americans (y'all)!

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Ivy D 5 years ago

YALL YALL YALL YALL IM FROM TEXAS CAN YOU TELL

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E A M 5 years ago

It does in NY... Youse!

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Patricia Sutkowski 5 years ago

It does in Pittsburgh: we say 'yinz' to mean two or more people. You're welcome.

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Sam Yobado 5 years ago

I read long ago that the Mason–Dixon line in America divided Yous from Y'all.

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Twitch Mitchell 5 years ago

It's y'all y'all

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Jenica Thomas 5 years ago

if you're from New Jersey there is the word "Yous"

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Cindy Snow 5 years ago

Yous guys😁

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Aldhissla VargTimmen 5 years ago (edited)

yay I know how to explain this! It's because you was the plural form of "thou". "you" was also a polite form to speak to 1 other person. Because British people are so polite, thou became unused and now only you is used for both singular and plural :) edit: it's like "tu" and "vous" in French, only in French "tu" didn't die out :)

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Bernadette Circle 5 years ago (edited)

In the upper Midwest of the United States we use ‘you guys’ regardless of gender

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Marie Wright 5 years ago

You=y'all. All y'all is 2 or more people.

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Martha Meyer 5 years ago

But that's just slang, not regular grammar that always applies.

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ShareMusic 5 years ago

Southeastern Pennsylvania (Berks County, specifically) uses "youse." The deep south and Texas use "y'all." Don't know why the rest of the U.S. hasn't followed suit.

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Reuben Reynoso 5 years ago

youse

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Fencat 5 years ago

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Manfred Jordan 5 years ago

The plural of "you" is "you all"! and invented by Michael Jackson -> I love you all

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Daria B 5 years ago

One is AWful, the other is AWEsome. Maybe here lies the difference.

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Chris 5 years ago

WTF is balogna?!

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Piou 5 years ago

You mean man's laughter isn't the same as manslaughter? Hmmm maybe I should reconsider my hobbies

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Kaisu 5 years ago

Because baked comes from the stem word "bake" so all you have to do is add the d in pronunciation. Whereas naked IS the stem word, so it has its own pronunciation. Confusing I know

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Fairy Kat 5 years ago

Shrek... LOL!

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Artex Gorilla 5 years ago

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Dave Walker 5 years ago

Try saying you'll meet a Continental European at "Half Eight" and see what time he arrives...

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Dynein 5 years ago

Ever learned German? It doesn't just change the specific of the verb... it changes the whole meaning. "wenden" - to turn, "verwenden" - to use, "abwenden" - to avert, "zuwenden" - to give care/love/attention. That game can be played with pretty much any verb...

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F. H. 5 years ago

I'm sorry to say, but in that case the proofreaders language skills were just lacking.

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Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago

But you can find two mistakes from proof reading!

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Full Name 5 years ago

It's weird the veil of this lie has reigned since ancient times. It's ageing well. Being that it's on my conscience, I'll ignore it's deficiencies and feign adherence to this insufficient and heinous rule.

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MonsterMum 5 years ago

I had a non English guest who wanted to see a dentist but all the ones he found were at Dental Practices - he didn't want to be practiced on, he wanted one who knew what they were doing

40points

Sri Hastuti 5 years ago

tell your guest practice makes perfect

7points

Chicken Pox 5 years ago

If the building is already built, why we still call building?

21points

Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago

What? You don't work in a built?

12points

Molly Universe 5 years ago

Something about root words blah blah blah. IDK.

5points

Avital Pilpel 5 years ago

I'm not drunk, I'm still drinking

0points

CookieNeerrrrd 5 years ago

Why are we like this... I'm English and I still don't understand why we are like this ._.

13points

CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago

From what I understand, it has to do with all the conquering that happened way back in the day. The people who eventually became English were very good about incorporating the conquerors' language in with their own, which is why there are so many words (double that of German) and so many nuances. **steps down from podium**

12points

nanashi 5 years ago

I've stopped trying to curse in English because once I said "how should we f**k this" instead of "how should we f*****g do this" and I was laughed at, thinking I did it in jest. I didn't. I really thought that was how you curse in English.

10points

Tina Hugh 5 years ago

No, non-native speakers should cuss frequently:-) It’s funny and it’s interesting because errors lay bare the underlying structure of the language, stuff one doesn’t normally notice if one’s a native speaker

10points

Florence Hastings 5 years ago

English is not a language, it’s a perpetrator that takes other languages down dark allies, beats them to a pulp and robs them. 😂

3points

Ale_Vidal23 5 years ago

i live in switzerland and it's quite frustrating that for words like "du", "dir", "dich", "Ihr", "Sie", "Ihnen", "euch", which are pronouns, in english you simply translate ALL OF THEM into the word "you"

3points

Lisa Shelton 5 years ago

What gets me is that "I'm gonna see if I can't catch that ball" and "I'm gonna see if I can catch that ball" mean the same thing.

3points

Laci 5 years ago

I like how some people actually answered the questions.

3points

Laura Lawson 5 years ago

The big problem is that English is a mishmash of other different languages that all have their own rules! You have Greek, Latin, French, Norse & Spanish roots, just to name a few, and they all have their own grammar, etc, as displayed above.

3points

An Honest Merchant 5 years ago

It's mostly german and french

0points

Angela 5 years ago

Gallagher and english language! YouTube it and laugh with me....

3points

Himanshu Raj 5 years ago

क्या चूतिया भाषा है !

2points

E A M 5 years ago

There, their, they're...

2points

John Louis 5 years ago

The worst aspect of the English language for writers is the lack of a gender neutral first person singular. Ex: A good employee knows that they have to be on time. NO! employee is singular they is plural Ex. A good employee knows he has to be on time. NO! This assumes the employee is male (unfounded sexism). Ex. A good employee knows that s/he has to bee on time. NO? Acceptable in some circles but still not perfect. Pity the poor writer who has to use English.

2points

Demi Zwaan 5 years ago

Singular 'they' does have a long history and should simply be accepted. There's also 'it' which is the true neutral first person singular. Some people prefer it. I don't, but it is an option.

0points

Chyppa Homer 5 years ago

It started out as a perfectly good Tuesday, then you people had to grammar all over it

2points

SurrealKit 5 years ago

The thing about English is it's a mess but at the same time it's kind of super flexible. So I can generally understand what people mean to say when they make technical errors. That's why people get called out with "You know what I meant." when they correct people. It takes a lot of errors to make a sentence that's completely incomprehensible and it's easy for two people to say the same thing and mean completely opposite things. That's just English.

2points

My O My 5 years ago

Here's a funny little story: my fist language as a toddler was english second one german. "Lost" a lot of the english as I am barely using it. BUT: I speak german with english melody

1point

Katarina Drvodelic 5 years ago

Don't get me started on Croatian

1point

Matthew Smith 5 years ago

Being an Englishman I really enjoyed this post, learned something too.

1point

SykesDaMan 5 years ago

I'll just leave this here: https://www.englishclub.com/esl-articles/199909.htm

1point

Foxxy 5 years ago

I recommend attempting The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenite, it really gets you thinking about the English language.

1point

Foxxy 5 years ago

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-1point

Sulu Chewy 4 months ago

Like everything else that was stolen or taken, so was the language. So I wonder, what was the language like before the conquistadors conquered?

0points

Michael Sternberg 4 months ago

I live in Israel and one of my neighbors has a good point he’s trying to learn English and noticed that in all Hebrew English or English Hebrew dictionaries there are pronunciation guides for Hebrew even though Hebrew has almost no exceptions to the pronunciation rules but none for the English

0points

Marie-Ève Girard-Dubreuil 3 years ago

I have a question for the frenchies out there. Why do we translate some places like New Mexico, New Orleans, New England but not New York or New Hampshire? I want to know!!

0points

Rike Renz 5 years ago

I'm always searching for an English ambivalent to the German word "Doch!", like: Kid: "I'm not gonna do my homework!" Parents in Germany: "Doch!" Parents in english: "You will do!" 🤷🏼‍♀️

0points

Avital Pilpel 5 years ago

Some languages borrow words from other languages. English hits other languages over the head in a dark alley and steals all their vocabulary. No wonder English has words spelled according to Greek, Latin, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Hebrew, and Hindi rules - to name jut a few. "Stephan (greek) and (German) Peter (Latin) saw (german) Satan (Hebrew) flaunting (french) his pyjamas (Himdu) like a maniac (greek) samurai (japanese) jihadi (arabic)." Suspicous, in more ways than one.

0points

Edwin Quantrall 5 years ago

Why can I wear a windbreaker -- but I can't say that it breaks wind? (Also, I'm surprised that the contributor found *ONLY* 40 examples...)

0points

Laura Osborne 5 years ago

There was a photo on Facebook a while ago of a ship shipping shipping ship shipping shipping ships! Say that a few times while drunk 😀

0points

Allison Reina Cellura 5 years ago

Phonetics is spelt with a "ph." The English language makes no sense!

0points

Carol McClellan 5 years ago

Mine is the fact that we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway. Also the fact that what we call football uses hands more than feet.

0points

Mark CM 5 years ago

Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?

0points

Gemma Lees 5 years ago (edited)

When I was doing my PGDE in post-compulsory adult literacy, we would often share stories about our learners. A classmate of mine was teaching at an ESOL, (English for Speakers of Other Languages), centre and one of her learners approached her and asked why "quite a bit" and "quite a lot" meant the same thing. She explained that the English language was ridiculous.

0points

Jaybird3939 5 years ago

Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?

0points

Lily dL 5 years ago

AUSTRALIA: 3 different pronunciations of the same vowel.

0points

Dan West 5 years ago

Try explaining to a foreign friend why, in America, we park on a driveway and drive on parkway.

0points

bill marsano 5 years ago

So many of these people are unnecessarily upset over minor complications and contradictions. How will they face the vagaries of real life?

0points

gonzo 5 years ago

Sometimes words can help with the meaning by appearing as a symbol, instead of how you pronounce it. There could be a lot of meanings for Q but just 1 meaning for Queue (at least in English) : )

0points

Jo Choto 5 years ago

These are some of the many reasons I find joy in being a linguist!

0points

Lomion 5 years ago

Let's remember Pacific Ocean which has three "c" in it pronounced differently!

0points

Trainluvr NYC 5 years ago

English is a lousy language. Whom may we scold for using it?

0points

Bluebell Rizzi 5 years ago

Gideon and pigeon... just droppin that on in there.

0points

Monday 5 years ago

English is definitely not a hard language to learn in comparison to other languages...but damn does it have quirks.

0points

Anthony J Cornish 5 years ago

English is an easy language to learn for rudimentary understanding but to speak British English really well is very difficult as there are too many words that we know mean almost the same thing.....but not quite.

0points

S. 5 years ago

The answer to all of these is . . . it’s all for the aesthetic.

0points

Bob Beltcher 5 years ago

All of this is because the English language is comprised of multiple other languages and not just one.

0points

Lance LaRocque 5 years ago

Just to mess them up more introduce these English words borrowed from the French language: garçon, café, façade, coup d'état, coup de théâtre, and coup de grâce. The list does go on.

0points

Magpie 5 years ago

How do I add a post to the thread ?. I have TEN ways to say the letter O. ___________ one ( wu ) . won. ( u). Woman women ( woo / wi ) _______ Go to top. Form. cow. word.

0points

Magpie 5 years ago

NONE OF THEM RHYME!!!!!

2points

C. Peirce Terry 5 years ago

The people that figured these out are are very smart. They have dissected lots of words.

0points

Scott Critchley 5 years ago

#34 - English might not have a plural form of you, but Aussie/Kiwi do (yous) and so do southern Americans (y'all)!

0points

Sasy 5 years ago

Australians try very hard not to use yous, it is a horrible sounding word

-1point

Melody Shanahan-Kluth 5 years ago

In Lincolnshire (UK) Old Boy can mean both a young lad or a very old man :) I love the English language, it keeps everyone on their toes!

-1point

Kiss Army Premium 5 years ago

Tell someone "Time stands still when I look at you." ... Now tell them "You're face could stop a clock."

-1point

Melanie Peapell 5 years ago

This post just broke my brain!!

-1point

Jirka Kubeš - soukromý 5 years ago

Anybody wandered what THERAPIST does?

-2points

Anthony J Cornish 5 years ago

OUR QUEER LANGUAGE I THINK YOU ALREADY KNOW OF TOUGH AND BOUGH AND COUGH AND DOUGH OTHERS MAY STUMBLE BUT NOT YOU WITH THOROUGH AND THROUGH WELL DONE ! AND NOW YOU WISH, PERHAPS TO LEARN OF LESS FAMILIAR TRAPS ? BEWARE OF HEARD, A DREADFUL WORD THAT LOOKS LIKE BEARD AND SOUNDS LIKE BIRD. AND DEAD, ITS SAID LIKE BED, NOT BEAD – FOR GOODNESS SAKE DON’T CALL IT DEED ! WATCH OUT FOR MEAT AND GREAT AND THREAT – THEY RHYME WITH SUITE AND STRAIGHT AND DEBT A MOTH IS NOT A MOTH IN MOTHER NOR BOTH IN BOTHER OR IN BROTHER AND HERE IS NOT A MATCH FOR THERE NOR DEAR AND FEAR FOR BEAR AND PEAR AND THERE’S DOSE AND ROSE AND LOSE – JUST LOOK THEM UP – AND GOOSE AND CHOOSE. AND CORK AND WORK AND CARD AND WARD AND FONT AND FRONT AND WORD AND SWORD AND DO AND GO AND THWART AND CART – COME, COME I’VE HARDLY MADE A START ! A DREADFUL LANGUAGE ? MAN ALIVE I’D MASTERED IT WHEN I WAS FIVE !

-3points

Molly Universe 5 years ago

Are you ok?

1point

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MonsterMum 5 years ago

I had a non English guest who wanted to see a dentist but all the ones he found were at Dental Practices - he didn't want to be practiced on, he wanted one who knew what they were doing

40points

Sri Hastuti 5 years ago

tell your guest practice makes perfect

7points

Chicken Pox 5 years ago

If the building is already built, why we still call building?

21points

Paul K. Johnson 5 years ago

What? You don't work in a built?

12points

Molly Universe 5 years ago

Something about root words blah blah blah. IDK.

5points

Avital Pilpel 5 years ago

I'm not drunk, I'm still drinking

0points

CookieNeerrrrd 5 years ago

Why are we like this... I'm English and I still don't understand why we are like this ._.

13points

CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago

12points

nanashi 5 years ago

10points

Tina Hugh 5 years ago

10points

Florence Hastings 5 years ago

English is not a language, it’s a perpetrator that takes other languages down dark allies, beats them to a pulp and robs them. 😂

3points

Ale_Vidal23 5 years ago

3points

Lisa Shelton 5 years ago

What gets me is that "I'm gonna see if I can't catch that ball" and "I'm gonna see if I can catch that ball" mean the same thing.

3points

Laci 5 years ago

I like how some people actually answered the questions.

3points

Laura Lawson 5 years ago

3points

An Honest Merchant 5 years ago

It's mostly german and french

0points

Angela 5 years ago

Gallagher and english language! YouTube it and laugh with me....

3points

Himanshu Raj 5 years ago

क्या चूतिया भाषा है !

2points

E A M 5 years ago

There, their, they're...

2points

John Louis 5 years ago

2points

Demi Zwaan 5 years ago

Singular 'they' does have a long history and should simply be accepted. There's also 'it' which is the true neutral first person singular. Some people prefer it. I don't, but it is an option.

0points

Chyppa Homer 5 years ago

It started out as a perfectly good Tuesday, then you people had to grammar all over it

2points

SurrealKit 5 years ago

2points

My O My 5 years ago

Here's a funny little story: my fist language as a toddler was english second one german. "Lost" a lot of the english as I am barely using it. BUT: I speak german with english melody

1point

Katarina Drvodelic 5 years ago

Don't get me started on Croatian

1point

Matthew Smith 5 years ago

Being an Englishman I really enjoyed this post, learned something too.

1point

SykesDaMan 5 years ago

I'll just leave this here: https://www.englishclub.com/esl-articles/199909.htm

1point

Foxxy 5 years ago

I recommend attempting The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenite, it really gets you thinking about the English language.

1point

Foxxy 5 years ago

This comment has been deleted.

-1point

Sulu Chewy 4 months ago

Like everything else that was stolen or taken, so was the language. So I wonder, what was the language like before the conquistadors conquered?

0points

Michael Sternberg 4 months ago

0points

Marie-Ève Girard-Dubreuil 3 years ago

I have a question for the frenchies out there. Why do we translate some places like New Mexico, New Orleans, New England but not New York or New Hampshire? I want to know!!

0points

Rike Renz 5 years ago

I'm always searching for an English ambivalent to the German word "Doch!", like: Kid: "I'm not gonna do my homework!" Parents in Germany: "Doch!" Parents in english: "You will do!" 🤷🏼‍♀️

0points

Avital Pilpel 5 years ago

0points

Edwin Quantrall 5 years ago

Why can I wear a windbreaker -- but I can't say that it breaks wind? (Also, I'm surprised that the contributor found *ONLY* 40 examples...)

0points

Laura Osborne 5 years ago

There was a photo on Facebook a while ago of a ship shipping shipping ship shipping shipping ships! Say that a few times while drunk 😀

0points

Allison Reina Cellura 5 years ago

Phonetics is spelt with a "ph." The English language makes no sense!

0points

Carol McClellan 5 years ago

Mine is the fact that we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway. Also the fact that what we call football uses hands more than feet.

0points

Mark CM 5 years ago

Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?

0points

Gemma Lees 5 years ago (edited)

0points

Jaybird3939 5 years ago

Why do we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway?

0points

Lily dL 5 years ago

AUSTRALIA: 3 different pronunciations of the same vowel.

0points

Dan West 5 years ago

Try explaining to a foreign friend why, in America, we park on a driveway and drive on parkway.

0points

bill marsano 5 years ago

So many of these people are unnecessarily upset over minor complications and contradictions. How will they face the vagaries of real life?

0points

gonzo 5 years ago

Sometimes words can help with the meaning by appearing as a symbol, instead of how you pronounce it. There could be a lot of meanings for Q but just 1 meaning for Queue (at least in English) : )

0points

Jo Choto 5 years ago

These are some of the many reasons I find joy in being a linguist!

0points

Lomion 5 years ago

Let's remember Pacific Ocean which has three "c" in it pronounced differently!

0points

Trainluvr NYC 5 years ago

English is a lousy language. Whom may we scold for using it?

0points

Bluebell Rizzi 5 years ago

Gideon and pigeon... just droppin that on in there.

0points

Monday 5 years ago

English is definitely not a hard language to learn in comparison to other languages...but damn does it have quirks.

0points

Anthony J Cornish 5 years ago

0points