Topic: Petition to get one of this forum's venerable users to change their moniker. (Read 494 times)
June 12, 2018, 03:39:03 PM
There are dozens of them... DOZENS!
June 12, 2018, 02:43:04 PM
Perhaps we should wait to see what the Trump-Kim summit gives before making our judgment.
I doubt this topic was on their agenda unless some White House intern misspelled "theymonuclear weapons".
June 12, 2018, 01:49:19 PM
I googled... and found some Capitonyms with different pronunciations. 
June 12, 2018, 01:35:28 PM
I had assumed everyone knew what a thermos was 
Yeah, it means thermostat. But the BTT admin has a "Y" to his.Well, it's a common practice here and majority of members also have their names as improper nouns. Its not yet time to crucify them. Perhaps we should wait to see what the Trump-Kim summit gives before making our judgment.
June 12, 2018, 01:15:24 PM
what's the thing with herb and Herb, how are they each pronounced?
Americans don't pronounce the "h", so they say "erb". This is more true to the original French pronunciation.
June 12, 2018, 01:09:04 PM
I'm not entirely sure Nice (with the capital) is a word in English it looks more French or something to me.
Oh yeah, my bad. It's a French city with a French name, so that one doesn't count.
@gleb, what's the thing with herb and Herb, how are they each pronounced?
June 12, 2018, 02:33:59 AM
I'm not entirely sure Nice (with the capital) is a word in English it looks more French or something to me.
Oh yeah, my bad. It's a French city with a French name, so that one doesn't count.
June 12, 2018, 02:24:49 AM
Bingo! And yes it's the only one.
What about the other 3 examples I gave...?
Oops! I'll give you Polish/polish. Are both Reading/reading and Nice/nice really pronounced differently?
I'm not entirely sure Nice (with the capital) is a word in English it looks more French or something to me.
And Reading, as above is pronounced redding as o_e_l_e_o states.
June 12, 2018, 12:24:09 AM
Reading the city is pronounced Red-ing, and Nice as in nephew and niece.
June 12, 2018, 12:21:21 AM
Bingo! And yes it's the only one.
What about the other 3 examples I gave...?
Oops! I'll give you Polish/polish. Are both Reading/reading and Nice/nice really pronounced differently?
June 12, 2018, 12:08:39 AM
Bingo! And yes it's the only one.
What about the other 3 examples I gave...?
June 12, 2018, 12:01:17 AM
Here's one pertaining to the uniqueness of the English language. There is ONLY one word in the English language that when it's a proper noun, both have different pronunciations in spite of being spelled exactly the same excepting that the first letter of the proper noun one is capitalized (hence a proper noun).
Looks like nobody figure out the word yet, eh? Here's a hint: 420.
I can think of three, but none of them relate to 420...
Polish/polish
Nice/nice (City in France)
Reading/reading (City in England)
It was probably the polish/Polish he was thinking of. I thought there were a few yesterday (there's probably more than those three).
No, not that.
Ahh, I think he must mean Herb (as in short for Herbert) and the American pronunciation of herb.
Still, definitely not the only one.
Still, definitely not the only one.
Bingo! And yes it's the only one.
June 10, 2018, 06:13:06 AM
Ahh, I think he must mean Herb (as in short for Herbert) and the American pronunciation of herb.
Still, definitely not the only one.
Still, definitely not the only one.
June 10, 2018, 05:32:44 AM
Here's one pertaining to the uniqueness of the English language. There is ONLY one word in the English language that when it's a proper noun, both have different pronunciations in spite of being spelled exactly the same excepting that the first letter of the proper noun one is capitalized (hence a proper noun).
Looks like nobody figure out the word yet, eh? Here's a hint: 420.
I can think of three, but none of them relate to 420...
Polish/polish
Nice/nice (City in France)
Reading/reading (City in England)
It was probably the polish/Polish he was thinking of. I thought there were a few yesterday (there's probably more than those three).
June 10, 2018, 01:02:09 AM
Here's one pertaining to the uniqueness of the English language. There is ONLY one word in the English language that when it's a proper noun, both have different pronunciations in spite of being spelled exactly the same excepting that the first letter of the proper noun one is capitalized (hence a proper noun).
Looks like nobody figure out the word yet, eh? Here's a hint: 420.
I can think of three, but none of them relate to 420...
Polish/polish
Nice/nice (City in France)
Reading/reading (City in England)
June 10, 2018, 12:12:44 AM
Replies to this thread, whether for or against the idea, constitutes a yea.
That's ridiculous, nobody is gonna fall for that.
June 09, 2018, 06:37:07 PM
There once was a BitcoinTalk admin [theymos]
Who some say was octospermous
Though the cause was unknown
Others have been told
It was due to him contracting thermus
Who some say was octospermous
Though the cause was unknown
Others have been told
It was due to him contracting thermus
There once was a BitcoinTalk admin [theymos]
Who had several problems with this thymus
He had contracted thermus
From a contaminated thermos
But cured himself by eating some Thymus
I never knew there were two meanings for thymus and both their meanings were totally opposite of the other. Tf.
Here's one pertaining to the uniqueness of the English language. There is ONLY one word in the English language that when it's a proper noun, both have different pronunciations in spite of being spelled exactly the same excepting that the first letter of the proper noun one is capitalized (hence a proper noun).
That said, I'm now leaning toward that theymos and Theymos be pronounced differently as well (thy-miss & thy-most [t is silent or, if you prefer, thy-mose], respectively).
Looks like nobody figure out the word yet, eh? Here's a hint: 420.
May 26, 2018, 10:48:02 AM
There once was a BitcoinTalk admin [theymos]
Who some say was octospermous
Though the cause was unknown
Others have been told
It was due to him contracting thermus
Who some say was octospermous
Though the cause was unknown
Others have been told
It was due to him contracting thermus
There once was a BitcoinTalk admin [theymos]
Who had several problems with this thymus
He had contracted thermus
From a contaminated thermos
But cured himself by eating some Thymus
I never knew there were two meanings for thymus and both their meanings were totally opposite of the other. Tf.
Here's one pertaining to the uniqueness of the English language. There is ONLY one word in the English language that when it's a proper noun, both have different pronunciations in spite of being spelled exactly the same excepting that the first letter of the proper noun one is capitalized (hence a proper noun).
That said, I'm now leaning toward that theymos and Theymos be pronounced differently as well (thy-miss & thy-most [t is silent or, if you prefer, thy-mose], respectively).they-moss
@theymos, if you read this, can we pronounce it they-moss or do you prefer something different as pronunciation.
May 25, 2018, 09:37:24 PM
There once was a BitcoinTalk admin [theymos]
Who some say was octospermous
Though the cause was unknown
Others have been told
It was due to him contracting thermus
Who some say was octospermous
Though the cause was unknown
Others have been told
It was due to him contracting thermus
There once was a BitcoinTalk admin [theymos]
Who had several problems with this thymus
He had contracted thermus
From a contaminated thermos
But cured himself by eating some Thymus
I never knew there were two meanings for thymus and both their meanings were totally opposite of the other. Tf.
Here's one pertaining to the uniqueness of the English language. There is ONLY one word in the English language that when it's a proper noun, both have different pronunciations in spite of being spelled exactly the same excepting that the first letter of the proper noun one is capitalized (hence a proper noun).
That said, I'm now leaning toward that theymos and Theymos be pronounced differently as well (thy-miss & thy-most [t is silent or, if you prefer, thy-mose], respectively).
May 25, 2018, 05:43:33 PM
There once was a BitcoinTalk admin [theymos]
Who some say was octospermous
Though the cause was unknown
Others have been told
It was due to him contracting thermus
Who some say was octospermous
Though the cause was unknown
Others have been told
It was due to him contracting thermus
There once was a BitcoinTalk admin [theymos]
Who had several problems with this thymus
He had contracted thermus
From a contaminated thermos
But cured himself by eating some Thymus
I never knew there were two meanings for thymus and both their meanings were totally opposite of the other. Tf.
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