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Janszoon 12-30-2018 01:19 PM
English Words That Don’t Look or Sound Like English
 
“Shrank”.

Frownland 12-30-2018 05:57 PM
Phlegm

The Batlord 12-30-2018 06:00 PM
Guess

Neapolitan 12-30-2018 06:03 PM
English

The Batlord 12-30-2018 06:13 PM
Sounds like "English" to me.

Key 12-30-2018 07:54 PM
German

windsock 12-30-2018 08:01 PM
Juice

Oriphiel 12-31-2018 02:11 AM
Weird

DwnWthVwls 12-31-2018 07:01 AM
schroodle

Janszoon 12-31-2018 07:56 AM
macabre

Oriphiel 12-31-2018 08:07 AM
Scuba

And also Snorkel

MicShazam 12-31-2018 08:50 AM
mayonnaise

Janszoon 12-31-2018 09:25 AM
pumpkin

Frownland 12-31-2018 09:38 AM
Syzygy

Key 12-31-2018 09:39 AM
Christophe

The Batlord 12-31-2018 10:15 AM
"Massacre" unless you're Joey Ramone.

Oriphiel 12-31-2018 10:16 AM
:laughing:

Janszoon 12-31-2018 10:21 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2029339)
"Massacre" unless you're Joey Ramone.
lol

Neapolitan 12-31-2018 01:05 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg (Post 2029188)
Sounds like "English" to me.
It looks like "English" yeah, but it doesn't sound like it. People don't say it the way it's spelt, they say "Inglish." Maybe it is a regional dialect thing.

reckon - that's a Southern favorite. I do reckon.

Lisnaholic 12-31-2018 03:34 PM
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...20px-SVP-B.jpg

"Buoy" is a strange looking word, with a touch of the Far East about it - and when an American says the word, he is clearly abandoning English altogether, metaphorically throwing up his hands and saying, "Bway-who-hayee" or something similar that I can't quite remember. ;)
Why can't you guys just say "boy", which is the way me and the Queen pronounce it ?

Janszoon 12-31-2018 03:55 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2029407)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...20px-SVP-B.jpg

"Buoy" is a strange looking word, with a touch of the Far East about it - and when an American says the word, he is clearly abandoning English altogether, metaphorically throwing up his hands and saying, "Bway-who-hayee" or something similar that I can't quite remember. ;)
Why can't you guys just say "boy", which is the way me and the Queen pronounce it ?
I'm sticking with BOO-ee.

Oriphiel 12-31-2018 04:45 PM
Bu Yi

Janszoon 12-31-2018 05:00 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Oriphiel (Post 2029420)
Bu Yi
Bougie

Lisnaholic 12-31-2018 05:39 PM
^ That looks like the French for boogie, or perhaps an alternative for the entirely different bogey - which I'm sorry to say is what you have in your handkerchief after blowing your nose.

Also, is buoyant pronounced "boo -ee- ant" or do you keep things simple as we do, with "boy-ant"? Two nice, simple British syllables that anyone can employ with confidence.

Janszoon 01-01-2019 09:17 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 2029440)
^ That looks like the French for boogie, or perhaps an alternative for the entirely different bogey - which I'm sorry to say is what you have in your handkerchief after blowing your nose.
It’s the English slang for bourgeois. :)

The Batlord 01-02-2019 03:21 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 2029410)
I'm sticking with BOO-ee.
I've never heard anyone say it differently.

Lisnaholic 01-02-2019 05:43 AM
^ Time you visited a marina in England then, D&G!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 2029709)
It’s the English slang for bourgeois. :)
^ Nice! I'm going to add that to the long list of slang I've learned thanks to MB. Still favourites on that list are Jelly and Cre-Cre :laughing:

Marie Monday 01-02-2019 10:41 AM
smirk
grunge
queue: looks like confused Spanish
yacht: is actually confused Dutch


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