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

Why do Americans say dove instead of dived? He dived into the pool, not he dove into the pool. That is what I was taught at school anyway. Also hanged and hung He was hanged from the tree, not he was hung from the tree. Is this a specifically American thing. No offence, just genuinely would like to know.

i yust foryot jow tao shpeek engrish

HER SMILE LMAO SHE KNOWS WHAT SHES DONE

https://saqibwaseem1234.blogspot.com/2022/08/how-to-communicate-fluently-in-english.html

I had this list printed out poster size to display outside of an elementary school library. The kids loved trying to read them. Eventually we'd go through them during class but it was fun to hear them in the hall realizing each word meant something different and were pronounced differently. The conversations were great.

I think the problem is that English Dictionaries were compiled many years ago. Also because the English dialect varies so much over short distances ANY spelling that is phonetic would be wrong in the next county, When I comes to Scottish, Welsh Irish, Indian, Australian , Canadian and the USA the language would disintegrate into many different languages. Think of 'correct spelling'; as much like Chinese ideograms.

Because we're three languages wrapped in a trenchcoat pretending to be one. Most of our vowel system derives from germanic patterns which are classified as strong and weak verbs (common in Dutch today). Therefore, drank, ran, saw, fell (strong derivation), and walked, felt, seemed, tested (weak derivation). Btw... nobody ever teaches us this.