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13/06/2005 15:21:19
Dragan Nedeljkovich (En ligne)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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>One of the worst spelled word in the English language (depending on where you live) has to be 'Colonel'. Where the heck's the 'R'?

That's "kernel"... probably originating from a walnut.

>Or how about 'cough' vs 'tough' or 'couch' vs 'touch'. How is a person new to English supposed to deal with this nonsense?

But it's very simple... you only have to remember the exceptions: harbinger, finger, ginger, linger, impinger, stinger, winger. You see the obvious rule on how to read the "g" in -ger?

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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