Random topic is random. So any clue?

I want to be a linguist and answer it intellegently, but the thread is in random! WHY?!?

 

Puppies

Kittens

This freaking thread legitimately blew my mind.

why not?

Edited March 17, 201312 yr by President Yoshi

I have ONE idea but I'm not telling you.

Edited March 17, 201312 yr by Sikota Urinakano

Word History:
Why do we pronounce one (wŭn) and once (wŭns) while other words derived
from one, like only, alone, and atone, are pronounced with a long o?
Over time, stressed vowels commonly become diphthongs, as when Latin
bona became buona in Italian and buena in Spanish. A similar
diphthongization of one and once began in the late Middle Ages
in the west of England and in Wales and is first recorded around 1400.
The vowel sound underwent a series of changes, such that the word's
pronunciation went from (ōn) to (ōōōn), with two syllables, to (wōn) to
(wōōn) to (wŏŏn) and finally to (wŭn). In southwest England,
this diphthongization happened to other words beginning with the long o
sound, such as oats, pronounced there now as (wŭts). Only in one and
once did this diphthongal pronunciation gain widespread usage.

 

 

How does a chicken simply cross the road? I must make a detailed analysis on this!

Same reason "weird" has a weird spelling. I don't see the "c", do you?

I thought it would pronounced "own".

For the love of randomness I say http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbjthzBywn1rzbilco1_1280.gif

Because bitches. 

Because I said so.

Because it is

Why is there a p in pterodactyl?

Welcome to the English language mother trucker. Google "ghoti" because, believe it or not, it's pronounced like fish. There's a whole Wikipedia page on it.

 

http://weknowawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ghoti-fish-english.png

The e is not silent but sounds like a w and gets moved to the front of the word for some reason.

KIRBY!

Why is there a p in pterodactyl?

Because Phyduck that's why!!

Edited March 18, 201312 yr by AaySquare

Welcome to the English language mother trucker. Google "ghoti" because, believe it or not, it's pronounced like fish. There's a whole Wikipedia page on it.

 

http://weknowawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ghoti-fish-english.png

 

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