I wonder if it's some big joke idea that they came up with a few years ago that still has a year or two left.Originally Posted by griffin
Five years of
The Fifth Element
played five times
on the fifth day
of the fifth month
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I wonder if it's some big joke idea that they came up with a few years ago that still has a year or two left.
Five years of
The Fifth Element
played five times
on the fifth day
of the fifth month
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I feel like it should start at 5:55:55 just to really complete the gag.
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Recently I have noticed that the pet toy section of the grocery store is being over-run by Hasbro... with their Tonka and Nerf brands (and now Transformers).
In the past there had been some random licenced pet toys of things from Disney, but the last couple of years has seen a sudden explosion as Hasbro and Disney appear to be fighting over that very niche toy market. It's almost as if the word "toy" needs Hasbro's attention, to start targeting.
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Random musings about the silly nightmare that is English spelling (the only language that has spelling bees!)...
"Though I coughed roughly and hiccoughed during the lecture, I still thought I could plough through the rest of it."
Of course, the reason why most of these variant pronounciations of "ough" (none of which are actually pronounced as "ough"), is because of historical reasons. They represent how these words used to be pronounced or how the pronunciation of "ough" has changed through time. Except for one idiotic outlier... hiccough. It is also the only time that "ough" is pronounced as "up." At least the others aren't alone in their weirdness.
e.g.
though rhymes with dough
cough rhymes with enough
thought rhymes with bought
plough rhymes with bough
thorough rhymes with borough
tough rhymes with rough
...etc.
What rhymes with hiccough? Well there's pickup, but of course, it doesn't end with "ough." And while the other ough weirdos have understandable historical origins, hiccough does not. It's literally because some numpty assumed the the "cup" in "hiccup" was related to the word "cough," and so he set the spelling as hiccough. Hint: the words cough and hiccough are not related!
Same with the silent g in "sovereign." Another numpty assumed that it must have been related to the word "reign" (which has a silent g because it comes from the Latin word REGNVM) - but it's not! "Sovereign" comes from the Old French word "soverain"... it never had a G in it, but some English knucklehead assumed that it needed to have one to reflect a word origin that never existed! It's as daft as painting Starscream in Jetfire colours because you think that the original Starscream toy came from Macross.
Go home, English. You're drunk!
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English can be a tough language.
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Theres never a drought of contraversy!
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