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| Quote: cod'ead "What about the spoken word, especially 'bath'?
Why do some people insist on referring to it as a 'baath', when they'd never dream of sending anything on a 'vaan' or cooling themselves with a 'faan'?'"
Phonetically it's more like 'barth'. The same reason why some folk travel to work on the 'buzz'. Your regional variation, innit. |
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| Quote: Rooster Booster "... I'm not mocking (exam joke, sorry) nor suggesting FA is wrong, but I am truly wondering why and where it's O-Level?.'"
It's not. It's O-level. |
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| Quote: tb "Compound adjective. The hyphen is essential.
(unless you're exclaiming in surprise at discovering some level English, of course. "O, level English!"'"
No, that would be "Oh, level English", shurley?
"O" on it's own in would be used in an entreating context, as in "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt". "Oh" tends to suggest surprise, etc.
If you were addressing level English directly, you might or might not use a comma. For example
"O Hamlet, speak no more!"
"O, speak to me no more!"
Both usages are admirably exemplified in one of the most beautiful passages of English conversation ever written, between Hamlet and Gertrude, in the following exchange Gertrude. O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
Hamlet. O, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half[/i
Unless you're American, in which case you'd say "Oh! Carol". |
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Who cares about a low grade examination? It should be semi-literate.
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| Quote: Kosh "Phonetically it's more like 'barth'. The same reason why some folk travel to work on the 'buzz'. Your regional variation, innit.'"
Or in London, BARF.
Water and other words that have a T in the middle (or should that be int middle to you lot?), we often drop the strong T sound in Lunden especially when said quickly.
war~ar
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ba~ar (you spread on bread)
le~er (you write and post) |
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| Quote: Dally "Who cares about a low grade examination? It should be semi-literate.'"
Do they still have the S Level in Scotland? |
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| Quote: Rooster Booster "Do they still have the S Level in Scotland?'"
No idea. Only been over the wall once. Came back next day. |
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| Quote: Dally "No idea. Only been over the wall once. Came back next day.'"
Was that for good behaviour?  |
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| Quote: Rooster Booster "The BBC suggest compound adjectives "normally" have hyphens between them. Not as essential as you claim.
They are essential. Like i is essential before e. The fact that there are specific and very limited exceptions only serves to prove the rule. As the popular saying confirms.
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| Quote: Kosh "Phonetically it's more like 'barth'. The same reason why some folk travel to work on the 'buzz'. Your regional variation, innit.'"
How then do people who come out of the barth not walk down the parth? |
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| Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "They are essential. Like i is essential before e. The fact that there are specific and very limited exceptions only serves to prove the rule. As the popular saying confirms.'"
Let the BBC know then. |
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| Quote: Kosh "Phonetically it's more like 'barth'. The same reason why some folk travel to work on the 'buzz'. Your regional variation, innit.'"
It's baff, as in 'gunnarav a baff' |
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| Quote: Ferocious Aardvark "They are essential. Like i is essential before e. The fact that there are specific and very limited exceptions only serves to prove the rule. As the popular saying confirms.'"
According to this week's QI, there are actually more words in the English language that don't conform to the "I before E except after C" rule than there are that do conform to it. Which is weird. |
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| Quote: tb "Compound adjective. The hyphen is essential.
(unless you're exclaiming in surprise at discovering some level English, of course. "O, level English!"'"
Or saying "He's got 8 O levels", in which case we are into compound noun territory. |
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