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

Charlie Short is being a little bit insulting, even if it is funny and to be fair, accurate. Perhaps he said it in jest, but it’s still very rude. I hope he followed up with an apology.

Okay. now you are being rude. Just because they have a foreign name doesn't mean you can be roasting them

Charlie is being a jackass

Nice. Nothing like a spot of racist humour is there.

That was uncalled for Charlie.

It's A LOT more than 3 languages smooshed together. It's more like 11. That is why spelling is so much fun in English.

Made me pronounce baked like you would naked.

Bruh..... 😂

Hahaha I love this one!!!!

pretty racist comment there, Charles.

Wait, baked doesn't rhyme with naked? Genuinly curious, I'm not trying to make up a weird joke

Charlie Short, not very nice of you.

Wait, how am I supposed to pronounce "naked"? I'm so confused rn, and I get why people make fun of french accent. (For real I have no clue about how to pronounce "naked")

That moment when you realize you still don't know the right pronunciations of English words... after all these years of struggle...I really thought they were both pronunced as in "naked"...shame on me..

And you Charlie Short represent the need for a plunger.

Well Charlie's not wrong

It's not nice to make fun of people's names, but ok, just this once.

The sound a plunger makes? Me, scrolling back to his name and getting a wipe to clean the coffee of my screen.

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