Ace-Garageguy Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Chrysanthemum is often shortened to "mum" when speaking or writing, due to the difficulty and amount of time consumed by dealing with words of more than one syllable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeakDoc Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Syllable recognition is the key to correctly spelling an onomatopoeia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Onomatopoeia used to be frequently written with the "o" and "e" attached, "œ" , sometimes called a typographic ligature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeakDoc Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Ligature marks on the wrists and ankles indicate that the victim was taken against their will and possibly tortured. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Tortured, convoluted sentences can often be the result of a writer being in too much of a hurry to pay sufficient attention to organizing his thoughts before committing them to paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBcritter Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 "Paper Roses" was a rather tear-stained song recorded by Anita Bryant in the sixties and Marie Osmond in the seventies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 seventies was the name of the original professional skateboard distributors in england Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunajammer Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 England swings like a pendulum do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classicgas Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Do you know who sang that song? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1972coronet Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Song stuck in me crust today: Don't Call On Me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Classicgas Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 Me thinks I thought too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeakDoc Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 (edited) Much of the trouble with a game like this comes when a sentence ends in a word that is spelled the same as an entirely different word; pronounced differently, with an entirely different meaning; like wind and wind. Edited July 18, 2022 by BeakDoc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 wind it up screamed the passenger, i want to feel the wind in my hair Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 18, 2022 Share Posted July 18, 2022 (edited) "Hair today, gone tomorrow" said the bald bullet-headed Bond-villain-lookin' bozo. Edited July 19, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy safgksdggkohwretvkvkgkhdfhfhljjhdf;lhfggggggpp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jokar124 Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Bozo the Clown and Ronald McDonald were one and the same person in Washington D.C. : Willard Scott ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Scott, Mr. Scott: beam us up, quick! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1972coronet Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Quick isn't necessarily fast, and vice-versa: "That car is fast!", is a common colloquialism muttered by many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 (edited) Many is the time I've wished I could just hit some interdwerb troll in the face with a shovel. Edited July 19, 2022 by Ace-Garageguy qwertyuiop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belairconvertable Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Shovel, yes, it is a very handy garden utensil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Timmy Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Utensil use in the kitchen can be dangerous when sharp edges are combined with electricity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOBLNG Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 Electricity and the safe and efficient storage of it is key to the long term success of electric vehicles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeakDoc Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 Vehicles, it seems, have largely become nothing more than generic tools to transport the boring and uninspired from point A to point B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Timmy Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 B is a letter of the alphabet and shouldn't be confused with Bee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOBLNG Posted July 19, 2022 Author Share Posted July 19, 2022 Bee Gees was a group founded way back in 1958 that I personally never even heard of until they did most of the soundtrack for the 1977 hit movie “Saturday Night Fever”, starring John Travolta. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitchdup Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 travolta sounds like something a tri chevy ev would be called, dont steal my idea general motors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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