What are you doing today 2023

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Pepper said:
My husband could never get the pronunciation of Worcester. It was hilarious! In Massachusetts we pronounce it 'Wooster.' Do you?
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Is it any wonder that non-English speakers have to be praised for learning our wretched language. I used wretched deliberately because the letter "w" is silent. In Brit speak, the term Wooster is used for Worcester. Warwick is pronounced Worrick and so on. Tsunami must have those foreigners baffled, then there's the silent "P" as in psychology, psychiatry, psyche, psychotic or pseudo. But the one that really causes headaches is the word, "Sword." Why is the w silent in sword but not sworn? Speaking of profanities, why is it that foreigners learn to swear in English so very quickly?
 
Good morning! Feeling better than yesterday. Yay. And it's another lovely cool morning.

I'm gonna go into work for a couple of hours but not gonna knock myself out for sure. Texted Sir last night. He insists he's going to work this morning :( :oops:. I really hope he gets up this morning and decides that's off the table.

Taking a jacket to work because there's work to be done in the freezer🥶 and with my Reynaud's disease/syndrome, whatever it is, don't need to tempt fate.

Y'all behave while I'm gone. (As if!)
 
horseless carriage said:
Is it any wonder that non-English speakers have to be praised for learning our wretched language. I used wretched deliberately because the letter "w" is silent. In Brit speak, the term Wooster is used for Worcester. Warwick is pronounced Worrick and so on. Tsunami must have those foreigners baffled, then there's the silent "P" as in psychology, psychiatry, psyche, psychotic or pseudo. But the one that really causes headaches is the word, "Sword." Why is the w silent in sword but not sworn? Speaking of profanities, why is it that foreigners learn to swear in English so very quickly?
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I was watching a reality show last night.. The cast in it were not English... and they were stone cold sober, middle class in their late 20's when they arrived in Croatia, and the very first thing and only thing they asked of the Croatian cab driver was how do they swear in his language ... I thought that was very odd... but perhaps that's how they learn ...
 
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horseless carriage said:
Speaking of profanities, why is it that foreigners learn to swear in English so very quickly?
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Had a Russian driver who claimed to not know English. He took me way out of my way and he kept insisting in Russian he knew no English. Yet, when I said "F you" he not only understood, but began cursing me back in "perfect" English!

F You. Great way to break the ice! ❤️
Learned it in Italian by age 10. Didn't learn it in English till I was 13. I learned it by reading 'Lady Chatterley's Lover.'
 
Good Morning Breakfast Clubbers@@!!!!///well made it
thru another nite, no dizziness, yay...sunny and 73F here, going
into high 90's today...we could use the rain but none coming...
Got very achy shoulders today, but oh well, always going to be
some pain or other...<Make it a good day no matter what !!!! ;)
 
hawkdon said:
Good Morning Breakfast Clubbers@@!!!!///well made it
thru another nite, no dizziness, yay...sunny and 73F here, going
into high 90's today...we could use the rain but none coming...
Got very achy shoulders today, but oh well, always going to be
some pain or other...<Make it a good day no matter what !!!! ;)
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..and where have you been young man...you do realise it's almost 2pm..dontcha ? :p
 
hollydolly said:
Temps are climbing.. 83 deg now... set to be 90 later...I've been in the garden brushing down all the cobwebs.. fences, garden furniture trellises etc.. blimey so many overnight.. ..verrry hot in my enclosed garden... had my mad woman hat on ..lol
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yes whats that song Mad dogs and english man go out in the midday sun,,lol Go find some shade .
 
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We're going to go into town to workout. Even though most businesses will be closed for the Holliday, the little grocery store should be open, but I'm not sure if the deli will be open. And cups!!!! Maybe, as a special treat, they might even have cups!!!!
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hollydolly said:
I was watching a reality show last night.. The cast in it were not English... and they were stone cold sober, middle class in their late 20's when they arrived in Croatia, and the very first thing and only thing they asked of the Croatian cab driver was how do they swear in his language ... I thought that was very odd... but perhaps that's how they learn ...
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I watched the same reality show. I also thought it was odd to ask about curse words. Sunday night is my favorite night for watching tv…love, love, love all the silly reality shows. My guilty pleasure!
 
Oldntired said:
I watched the same reality show. I also thought it was odd to ask about curse words. Sunday night is my favorite night for watching tv…love, love, love all the silly reality shows. My guilty pleasure!
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yes mine too... the American ones not the British ones.. Here we take the lowest class of people they can find and put them in reality shows.... I hate it.. but American ones..(not all ) I like....
 
Well setting here with heat pad on shoulders, prob won't
do much different today, laundry started...had to laugh at
myself a few mins ago, tv would not come on so was trying to
find cable co number, picked up my pile of stickies, scraps of
paper etc and the whole mess flew all over the place!!!! So
much for keeping track of things LOL....very sunny here 80F to
start the day.......(oh I found out cable system was down at that time).....:p
 

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