Activity for pureferret â€
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| Comment | Post #290214 |
How am I supposed to pronounce occasionally? Because I'm pretty sure I've been saying *occasionly* my whole life. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290214 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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Vowel insertion phenomenon When I, maybe Br.E speaker, pronounce adverbs ending '-bly' I find myself occasionally inserting an extra vowel. So I say feeble-y, noble-y but I 'correctly' say 'nim-bly' and 'lim-ply' (I've placed the hyphen to approximate stress). Various online dictionaries give the pronunciation without th... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288998 |
How could I better define what I'm expecting in an answer? (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288998 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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How can I un-translate these humourous 'translations' Windows terms, from Bengali? Here's the image of the humourous 'translations', and my wife has helped me 'untranslate' some of them, but we're stuck on some: image transcription below > Bill Gates has released Windows in a Bengali version called JANAALA 2016. Some terms which have been used: > > Save - Basao Save... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288413 |
Here's more what I mean, this page uses Tudorættinni to mean The Tudors, literally Tudor-family: https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3sastr%C3%AD%C3%B0in (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288413 |
How does this work with extended family?
I'm used to the notion that a large extended family with an family name that might be known over generations. For instance, referring to The Windors (UK royal family) or The Tooks (Hobbit family: https://lotr.fandom.com/wiki/Took_(family) ) (more) |
— | 11 months ago |