Oh dear... O.o

I love english and its probably my favourite language for its grammal simplicity and plasticity. But the random pronunciation drives me insane.

Needs more upvotes. "the sound a plunger makes" outstanding and 100% hilarious

I love that example!

I had to say that in my mind like 50 times until it made sense

If I try to write that i think i will break my corrector

Yeah but that's true for every language. You rarely have "full" synonyms that are completely interchangeable in every context (non-native speakers are generally detectable by breaking unspoken context rules) . Apart from minute differences in meaning, most words also have meanings beyond the thing they describe, such as opinion.

And did you pick him up?

Why is the nose running and the feet smell???

*Takes notes*. Don't use s**t when talking to someone...

This is brilliant.

Love this one!

It will say BOOM later on

Lining up in silence, exactly as a queue should be!

Sarcasm, I guess. Use the word in a sarcastic context too often and it changes the meaning to the opposite. Happens frequently.

Also "gaol" O.O

Shouldn't "emordnilap palindrome" simply be a palindrome?

I warn bored panda to remove this one. This could cause various murders by the readers here.

...... foreign neighbour's heifer

Quite impressive

isn't that convenient?

I was taking a TEFL (Teaching English as a foreign Language) qualification in Japan, and one of the exercises I had to do was read to a class of students. The one word that stuck in my mind was black bird versus blackbird. The difference is so subtle, but I hadn't given it any thought until you had to explain the difference.

My English teacher taught me not to use "handy" in English because it would be a derogatory term for handicapped people. Is that true?

*jabs finger at my screen* America explain!!!

And here is another strange "Americdnism" I spit my cereal, I would say I spat my cereal...

Whoever came up with those names for the hair colors were color blind

That would be a nice nickname for bored panda!

I have a medical condition which resulting in tearing of the cornea. When I write that, people sometime get confused. My cornea doesn't produce liquid, it rips apart and is excruciatingly painful, but tearing can make it feel a little better because the liquid lubricates and protects the tear.

Fun with sounds and spelling

And the B in tomb is silent, and the E in time is silent, and the T in often is silent, and the H in honor is silent, how do you pronounce BETH? It's all silent letters!

Because the Frigidaire brand became so popular that “fridge” was used as the term for all refrigerators.

Fairly sure this is because U used to be written as a V

The French got it right

I write "w" with u's instead of v's

The French say "double-v"

Take a look at cursive (which used to be the way things were written)

If you look at a 200-year old English dictionary you may find that there are only 24 letters in the alphabet. The words beginning with i and j may be treated as starting with the same letter, as well as the words beginning with u and v.

Stop blaming the romans, all languages that come from Latin say "double v" !!!

Ah.. blame the Romans for that!

In French it IS double-V (deux-v"). It is probably because written W's base is normally rounded, while V is always "pointed" at the base. In Latin V was written instead of U. Probably because a straight line is easier to carve in stone, than a curved one.

When 'W' as a capital looks like a V V, VV. 'w' as a small letter looks like a u u . uu. Hand wrighting.

I heard a comedian saying once, when talking about spelling words, "D as in W, W as in Y, E as in X, Y as in U, etc. It was really funny, but I don't remember it all.

because it was originally written that way in Anglo-Saxon times. ... At first, the sound was represented by “uu”—literally a double “u.”

In german also double v

exactly!!!!

Really hard to vunderstand

Old Roman