Another Word Game

[myst_riven08]

I’ve been perusing some oddities in the English language (apologies to UK folks....I’m in the
U.S., so there may be some differences). It is well-known that, for someone who is raised
with some language other than English, it can be harder to learn English than for one who
grew up speaking English to learn another language. The reason is that many rules either
don’t exist, or do not apply in all cases. Try explaining about words spelled differently,
and with different meanings, yet pronounced the same, to a non-English speaking person
trying to learn English (“heart” - “hart” ---- “raise” -“raze” ----etc.). How about words which
are spelled the same but pronounced different,
like “read” (pronounced “red” when used in past tense) and “read” (pronounced “reed”
when used in present tense). The list goes on.....almost ad infinitum. Anyway, I have been
giving some thought to one such word: Polish.

You see, I realize that I used to have some friends from Poland (I really did, too....I’d like
to find them again someday). They are Polish. There is also a sausage I like: Polish
Sausage. What do I do on a nice, clear day? Polish my car. Now, when a foreigner sees
the word, he has to wonder if he should go buy a sausage or get a cleaner for his car’s
paint (or, maybe buy a sausage to clean the car with?). If you clean the car with a sausage,
are you supposed to skin it first?

What I would like to do is REALLY drive people nuts! I’d like to go to Poland and open
a factory which produces a car cleaner product. Then, I could name it (what
else?)...........Polish Polish

Oh, never mind....I guess I’ll just go read a book, if I haven’t already read it. Or maybe I
should raze an old building so I can raise a new building. Or pour some soothing Aloe on
an irritated skin pore, if I’m not too poor to buy it. On the other hand, maybe I should
replace the broken window pane, except it is a pain to do that job.

Oh, well, back to Polish Polish. My car needs a good cleaning anyway (for a lunch break, I
can have Polish Sausage, if I don’t drop it in the polish by mistake).

Now, for the word game: Can you post two words which are spelled differently but pronounced the same? (there are more than I've used here) --- OR, in a pinch, one word that is spelled the same but pronounced differently depending on usage? (delete this message in reply to keep it shorter)

[Amie]

Myst, I love reading your posts, they are so entertaining, thank you. :thLt:


Would Wood make a good fire ?


Amie :amie:

[thelindaj]

one won

[L e s]

How about a Transylvanian Steak with a Stake through it

[Eve]

I can't thing what can ail this ale

What a great new fire grate

My pot has a leak so I can not cook this leek
Guess I'll just have to loaf around and eat a loaf

Speaking of loafs (loaves) my Dad always used to say to me 'use your loaf' when he meant use your brain. Anyone know how that came about? Les & Amie, I am sure it is an English expresion.

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[L e s]

Eve

use your loaf comes from Cockney rhyming slang.

Use your loaf of bread <span style='color:red'>(head)</span>

[myst_riven08]

I got tired reading all this, so I caught a nap in a cot

[Eve]

Thanks Les. I should have been able to work that out. He also used to tell me to open my minces. (mince pies/eyes)

Anyway

I think I will sail off to a sale


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[L e s]

To digress from this game

Adam and Eve Believe ....Would you Adam and Eve it?
Alligator Later ....See you later alligator.
Apples and Pears Stairs.... Get up those apples to bed!
Army and Navy Gravy.... Pass the army, will you?
Bacon and Eggs Legs ....She has such long bacons.
Barnet Fair Hair.... I'm going to have my barnet cut.
Bees and Honey Money ....Hand over the bees.
Biscuits and Cheese Knees ....Ooh! What knobbly biscuits!
Bull and Cow Row ....We don't have to have a bull about it.
Butcher's Hook Look ....I had a butchers at it through the window.
Cobbler's Awls Balls ....You're talking cobblers!
Crust of Bread Head ....Use your crust, lad.
Daffadown Dilly Silly ....She's a bit daffy.
Hampton Wick Prick ....You're getting on my wick!
Khyber Pass Arse....Stick that up your Khyber.
Loaf of Bread Head.... Think about it; use your loaf.
Mince Pies Eyes ....What beautiful minces.
Oxford Scholar Dollar.... Could you lend me an Oxford?
Pen and Ink Stink ....Pooh! It pens a bit in here.
Rabbit and Pork Talk.... I don't know what she's rabbiting about.
Raspberry Tart Fart ....I can smell a raspberry.
Scarpa Flow Go ....Scarpa! The police are coming!
Trouble and Strife Wife ....The trouble's been shopping again.
Uncle Bert Shirt ....I'm ironing my Uncle.
Weasel and Stoat Coat ....Where's my weasel?

[Eve]

This strong wind will wind me up.

Thanks for the list Les. I am more familiar with Scouse Rhyming slang. They overlap a lot.I have just found this hilarious site where you can have a phrase translated into different dialects,Geordie, Brummie etc http://whoohoo.co.uk/
Here are I few more. I had to remove a few from the list in case I got banned!
Ali, Alley: barber
apples and pears: stairs
apple tarted: farted
bagga yeast: priest
Barnet Fair: hair
blue brick (nick): jail
Boat Race: face
Bob Hope: soap
bottle: arse
bran mash: cash
brass, pallyass: promiscuous woman
bristlers: breasts
Bristol (City): breasts
Calcutta: margarine
Coat and Vest: chest
County Kildare: stair
Cowdenbeath: teeth
creamy whirl: girl
Dicky Dirt: shirt
dolly pegs: legs
Duke of Kent: rent
Eartha Kitt: shit
Elastic bands: hands
Everton (toffee): coffee
Grace Kelly: television
Gregory Peck: neck
Hampstead Heath: teeth
(H)ampton Wick: prick
Hit and Miss: piss
I suppose: nose
Inch and a Half: scarf
Irish Jig: wig
jam-role,jam: parole
Jimmy Riddle: piddle
Joe Baksi: taxi
Joe Palookad: snookered
Lauder (H)arry: order
Loaf of Bread: head
loop de loop: soup
Manchester Cities: breasts
Mince Pie, mincer: tie
Mince Pies :eyes
Mint Rocks: socks
mountains of morn: pawnshop
Mutt n' Jeff: deaf
Nanny Goat: boat
Nat King (Cole): the Dole
Niagara Falls: testicles
North and South: mouth
Orchestra Stalls: testicles
Oxford Scholar: dollar
Paddy Kelly: belly
Pat 'n Mick: sick
pegs: legs
Pen n' inks: stinks
pig's belly: television
Plates of Meat, Plawts: feet
Plymouth Sound: a Pound
pony and trap: crap
Pony and Float: boat
porky pies: lies
Rabbit (and pork): talk
Rocky Raccoon: the moon
seven: heaven
sign of the cross: the boss
snake's hiss: piss
soap wrapper: scrapper
Tate `n' Lyle: smile
tea-leaf: thief
Toffee Rex: pants
Toffees: pants
tom foolery, tom: jewelry
Turtle Doves: gloves
Vanity Fair: hair
Vera Lynn: chin
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[carolj100]

This thread has digressed rather interestingly. :lol: Now I forgot what I was planning to post! :cjlol:

[carolj100]

Well, this isn't it, but fits anyway:


The word UP

There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning
than any other two- letter word, and that is "UP."

It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or
at the top of the list, but when we waken in the morning,
why do we wake UP.

At a meeting, why does a topic come UP?

Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for
election and why is it UP to the secretary to write
UP a report?

We call UP our friends, we use it to brighten UP a
room, polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers
and clean UP the kitchen.

We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning.
People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and
think UP excuses.

To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is
special, and this is confusing.

A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.

We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP
at night.

We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP.

To be knowledgeable of the proper uses of UP, look
UP the word in the dictionary. In a desk size dictionary,
UP takes UP almost 1/4th the page and definitions add
UP to about thirty.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways
UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give
UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP.
When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP.
When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain
for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my
time is UP, so I'll shut UP.

[myst_riven08]

If I were to pare a pair of apples, then shoo a fly from my shoe, I might take a plane to a plain and get lost in a maze in the maize, it may leave me in a daze for the rest of my days.......uh, I think....

[Eve]

Polish Polish
Myst, Would your Polish Polish polish Polish cars or would your Polish Polish polish anything? If your were in Greece would it be grease?
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[L e s]

I wanted to train to drive a train, but I had to pause for a bit, to clean the paws of my cat before I could get the bit between my teeth

[Eve]

I would like to cite a strange sight I saw on a web site

The Capitol was in the Capital city

She was taught not to wear her pants too taut

Bill was busy sealing the ceiling

:neener: Good grief, there are 1000's of them!

[Denine]

I see the saw or is it
I saw the sea ????

[myst_riven08]

Hey, Denine, what kind of saw blade do you use to saw the sea? :lmbo: :cjlol:

[amb141]

Re: "UP"

There is even one instance in which "up" and "down" mean precisely the same thing -- in the expression "slow up" (or, alternatively, "slow down".)

alan

[L e s]

Could we just settle for a pieceof peace or would you find it in the wood I think that on the whole you may find it in the hole but which witch had the great grate

[Eve]

http://www.members.aol.com/teejaw/smilies/Monkey2.gif

If you meddle with a metal medal you need to be on your mettle

I would not give a cent for the scent he sent

The boy swam out to the bouy

A ewe under a yew

Just send me the facts in a fax

The hair of the hare

Its not very humorous when you bang your humerus

[Suze]

did the wind wind the kite

i yellled fore four times in the golf course

the grass on the course was course

I wound the bandage around the wound

I fought for the fort

I have an eye

[L e s]

The heir to the throne was out for a walk to get some air


We all tried to use the awl

It was too much to find two together

write about the rite in the right context for the wright to do his job

Spruce up the spruce tree

pare the pair of pears


Would the sewer sew my jacket in the sewer whilst I sow seeds

[Suze]

How are a jeweler and a jailer alike

The jeweler sells watches
The jailer watches cells

[Eve]

She ate a canape under the canopy

Use khol to make your eyes black as coal

A knight in the night

I would not moan if the grass was mown

I'd like a sundae every Sunday

[L e s]

I blew raspberries at the man selling overpriced Raspberries

[Suze]

I was seen watching the scene


it was too dark to see the number two on the door

[Eve]

I'm in a daze these dayshttp://www.stopstart.freeserve.co.uk/smilie/scared.gif

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[Suze]

I wil train the train to go slow

[Eve]

He threw the plate through the window

[Wrong Number]

They had to refuse the refuse truck because the dump was full.
The farmer was trying to teach the sow how to sow his crops.
No other time then the present to give me my present.

[Eve]

He had to sell his cell phone

The dear deer were to dear to buy

The problem was discussed with disgust

The arrival of the emminent guest was imminent

His fate at the fete was unknown

The big horse was a little hoarse

[L e s]

Did Bush sanction sanctions against Iraq?

[Eve]

When the sheep were mustered he had a mustard sandwich


He knows nothing about her nose

[Suze]

Her toes were towed

[Suze]

UP
There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning than any other two-letter word, and that is "UP." If you are not confused after reading this you must really be messed "UP."
It's easy to understand UP, meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list but when we waken in the morning, why do we wake UP. At a meeting, why does a topic come UP ?

Why do we speak UP and why are the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write UP a report ?

We call UP our friends, we use it to brighten UP a room,
polish UP the silver, we warm UP the leftovers and clean
UP the kitchen. We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car.

At other times the little word has real special meaning.

People stir UP trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an
appetite, and think UP excuses. To be dressed is one thing
but to be dressed UP is special, and this is confusing.

A drain must be opened UP because it is stopped UP.
We open UP a store in the morning but we close it UP
at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP about UP.

To be knowledgeable of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, UP takes UP almost 1/4th the page and definitions add UP to about thirty.

If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the
many ways UP is used. It will take UP a lot of your time,
but if you don't give UP, you may wind UP with a hundred or more.

When it threatens to rain, w e say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth. When it doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP.

One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for now my time is UP , so I'll shut UP...

[Eve]

http://www.emotipad.com/newemoticons/Good-Post.gif

Dont whine about the wine

Feeling a little weak this week

[Suze]

I will write on the right side if I'm right :wacko:

[Psykomouse]

I can add a couple of Aussie ones to this

dead horse - sauce (you Americans call it ketchup for some strange reason lol)
china plate - mate

[Eve]

It was a strange brood that brewed the beer

The Royle Family is not very Royal :)

[Suze]

The Flyer flew the plane when he had the flu
He flew the plane with a plain flier about the flu :hammer:

[Eve]

:) :) The minor miner was missed in the mist

[Suze]

I will roll the DICE after I DICE the carrots

I will ROLL up the Roll and then eat it


I will play the ROLE of a man eating a ROLL

[Wildman]

I may be able to see better, if I'd just get my eye checked for a cateract.

[Muffin02]

lOU WENT TO THE LOO :neener:

[L e s]

Sailing down the river I couldn't see the cataracts because of my cataracts

[Suze]

Johnny became horse when he horsed around with his horse

[Muffin02]

The bear was bare :lmbo:

[Breezy]

THEY'RE going to get THEIR cameras over THERE!

[tidyup]

There was instant pain when I broke the window pane.

[Breezy]

It took me TWO days TO get done and buy all the supplies TOO!

[L e s]

In Paris recently, a thief almost managed to steal several paintings from the Louvre. But during his escape, his van ran out of gas and he was captured. After the incident was televised, a reporter asked the would-be thief what had happened.

He replied, "I had no Monet to buy Degas to make the Van Gogh!"

[Suze]

Good one Les

[L e s]

A guy goes into a seafood restaurant and asks to see the dishes of the day.
The waiter wheels over a trolley and the man examines the dishes. "I'll have the little green squid with the hairy lip, please" says the man. "O.K." replies the waiter and calls out "Gervais!!"

A little French chef appears with a large knife, the waiter instructs the chef to kill the little green squid with the hairy lip.

Gervais is just about to slice at the poor squid when he notices a tear running down its face.
Gervais is touched, and admits that he hasn't the heart to kill the squid.

"Not to worry" says the waiter, and calls out "Hans!!" at which an enormous German bloke comes out of the kitchen.
"Sir", says the waiter, "this is Hans, the dishwasher Hans, kill that squid!"
The dishwasher wields a huge rolling pin and is just about to bludgeon the little green squid with the hairy lip when it cringes back and gives a little cry.

"I am sorry sir, I just cannot kill the squid" Hans admits, his lower lip trembling. "Well sir," says the waiter, "it just goes to show.
(Wait for it)

(Sorry about this)

Hans that do dishes, can be soft as Gervais. With mildgreen, hairy lip squid

[Sacred Eyes]

can't think of anything

gotta go

mom says get off the puter

cuz its raining and thundering

an i might get lectrocuted or sumthin



crapped out...later



Angie
logged out for the night

[carolj100]

Copyright Exclaimed?

When you write copy you have the right to copyright
the copy you write, if the copy is right.

If however, your copy falls over, you must right your copy.

If you write religious services you write rite, and have the right to
copyright the rite you write.

Very conservative people write right copy, and have the
right to copyright the right copy they write.

A right wing cleric would write right rite, and has the right to
copyright the right rite he has the right to write. His editor has the
job of making the right rite copy right before the copyright can be
right.

Should Jim Wright decide to write right rite, then
Wright would write right rite, which Wright has the
right to copyright.

Duplicating that rite would copy Wright right rite,
and violate copyright, which Wright would have the
right to right.

Like whatever...

[Eve]

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?