A pair of binoculars

I before E except in Rammstein...

Since "con" is the opposite of "pro", isn't "Congress" the opposite of "Progress"?

While english can be a difficult language, it can be learned through tough thorough thought, though.

EastCoastMojo wrote: I still have a hard time wrapping my brain around the fact that we drive on the parkway and park on the driveway. English has a weird.

and trucks/cars carry shipments, and ships carry cargo …

I used to know a whole page of these but aging memory is taking it's toll

SVreX wrote:

Toyman01 wrote: Write it off the English being a really screwed up language.

English is not that hard, you just have to follow the rules... "I" before "E", except after "C" AND when sounding like "A" as in "Neighbor" and "Weigh" AND on weekends, and holidays, and all throughout May AND you'll ALWAYS be wrong no matter WHAT YOU SAY!!

except for weird

ok, since we're on this train of thought, an observation/question I had the other day which just caused my wife to look at me weird.

Why is it when someone is talking we might tell them to shut up, but when they wont talk to us we say they've shut down?

My 3-year old gives examples of how odd the language is every day. He understands past tense, and yet we are always correcting him on words like "runned" instead of "ran". And plural, like Gooses instead of Geese. We say "it is stupid, but that's the way it is".

The English language is a conquered person's language, so it's a mix of the conquerors languages: Old English (as the base), old Germanic languages, Latin, etc...

So it doesn't follow any single rule set.

"Listen to what I mean" takes care of most of this E36 M3.

Trans_Maro wrote: I before E except in Rammstein...

Rammstein is German, not English, so it's not even an exception. :)

Wally wrote: Ox-Oxen. Box-Boxen

VAX-VAXen.

(OK, so that's only one, but 780s are big, it's hard to get two of them in the frame at once!)

And then there's "chassis."