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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:56 am    Post subject: IF Tech Institute GAME!! Reply with quote

Hmm.. it would seem that I still have powers pertaining to the IFTech Institute.. so lets have some fun, shall we?

How about a good, old-fashioned vocabulary game?

Give me some grammatical abnormalities! For instance:

DEER isn't pluralized when there's more than one.. but BEER is.
GOOSE becomes GEESE, but MOOSE doesn't turn into MEESE.
YOU is used for one individual OR a group.. (not "YOUS", which makes my teeth hurt.).

Wanna give it a try?
(And, yes, I realize that "wanna" isn't proper English or good grammar, but that's not really the point here.. unless you want it to be- in which case, i probably have a pencil around here somewhere, and that has a very nice, sharp, leady and hurtful point.... oh, enough bloodshed already.. ON WITH THE GAME!)
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

You may not be able to have YOUS but you can have EWES.

No matter if its one EWE or a hundred EWES it's still a SHEEP or some SHEEP.

Am I getting it right? Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This may not be exactly what you are looking for...

But I am going TO bring up TWO, TOO.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about the BOXEN which are pulled by six OXEN?

Or the CACTI adding ABACI (which actually is correct, but so is ABACUSES)

Or the TOOTH that's in the BOOTH
which when many could be TEETH
and the BOOTHEN would be BEETH
and FORSOOTH would be FORSEETH
for as GOOSE goes into GEESE
so would CHOOSE go into CHEESE
and the TREE which becomes TREES
would have FRY turn into FREEZE
and the FLY turn into FLEAS
and the HE turn out as HES
could we stop this cycle please?

English is odd. We should all switch to French--at least there you have la police de langue!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 1:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My favorite has alway been:

If the plural form of MOUSE is MICE, why isn't the plural form of HOUSE, HICE?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Javert.. that was awesome!!


((and you might have the most charming case of OCD i've ever seen. Razz ))
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 5:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

scissorkitty wrote:
((and you might have the most charming case of OCD i've ever seen. Razz ))


OCD!!? Who has OCD? I've never obsessed about anything or anyone for years without respite--or gone to any lengths to pursue them across three counties, causing the death of a mayor, a priest, and a destitute mother in the process! Would I stoop that low?? Never!
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 6:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

*giggles at Javert* Razz

One LOUSE and two LICE, but not one SLOUSE and two SLICE? A DOUSE becomes DICE?


And apparently a HOUSE can be a HICE if you're posh enough, but then a CrËche would be a collision between two motor vehicles in Kensington.

....so says the interweb Wink
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 7:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure this totally counts but warrants a question nevertheless:

If Coconut Oil is made from Coconuts
And Corn Oil is made from Corn
And Cotton Seed Oil is made from Cotton Seeds...


Where does Baby Oil come from?
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If pro is the opposite of con.

What is the opposite of congress?

I saw that somewhere, I thought it was funny. I do like the idea of congress though.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If BREED becomes BRED, and BLEED becomes BLED then shouldn't READ become RED?

Or, really, READ ends up being PRONOUNCED AS "red".. but still spelled the same, which drives my husband crazy. And then.. technically, if you get married.. shouldn't you have a "WEEDING", so you can later be WED?
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If READ became RED, then LEAD could remainLED, and not LEAD but then why is SPREAD still pronounced SPREAD whether now or before? Confused
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thunderbird wrote:
Not sure this totally counts but warrants a question nevertheless:

If Coconut Oil is made from Coconuts
And Corn Oil is made from Corn
And Cotton Seed Oil is made from Cotton Seeds...


Where does Baby Oil come from?


Enough about that, let's talk about rape seed! And, indeed, rape oil...

And technically, YOU is the plural. Thou, or thee, is the singular but it is no longer used.
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