What is really weird is that rhyme and rhythm do not use "rhy" in the same way.
It's that damnable silent e again, causing all sorts of trouble, givin' short vowels notions that they're long.
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What is really weird is that rhyme and rhythm do not use "rhy" in the same way.
It's that damnable silent e again, causing all sorts of trouble, givin' short vowels notions that they're long.
The town of "Campbell," in Northern Ohio, is pronounced "camel."
It's AR-kin-sah. Isn't it?
When I was six or so, I got into an argument with a teacher about reptiles having pre-dated birds. No, I was told. God created them both at the same time. Checking Genesis, he wasn't even right about that.
Does anyone else have the thing where you know a word is spelled correctly, but the more you write it, the more wrong it looks?
Dude, even cow looks wrong if I write it enough times.
How would y'all say Sequim, Puyallup, or Tsawwassen?
It's AR-kin-sah. Isn't it?
I've heard that people from Kansas like to call it "Our-Kansas"
Okay, now the word "Kansas" is starting to look funny.
Also, why is "climb" spelled C-L-I-M-B instead of C-L-I-M-E?
Because it comes from the Old English "climban." English is strangly conservative for a language that lets you add words willy nilly.
And I still don't understand people who say "Missour-UH" and "Cincinnat-UH." There's a freaking I on the end of the names, people.
There's an S on the end of Illinois.
t lived in a part of Missouri that said "Missour-uh"
How would y'all say Sequim, Puyallup, or Tsawwassen?
I would get a concerned look on my face and point at the words.
There's an S on the end of Illinois.
Also there's Des Moines.