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beau bough bow Bo} fete feet feat } toe tow - grate great....I was so much better at this a couple of decades ago! dunce.gif

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My palate is enjoying the pallete of flavors my most recent pallet is delivering.

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What a colorful display of peoples vocabulary this thread has dished up

Tomato, Tomato.

Castle, Castle.

Dance, Dance.

(wondering how many aussies are going to get the last three, or who'll pick up on the first line.. )

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I taste with my palate, I sleep and stack wares on a pallet, I paint with a palette biggrin.png

I paint with a brushlol3.gif but I taste with a palate

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Yeah...

Since we're on vocal linguistic pet peeves, I'll toss out two more.

1. vocal/glottal fry (creaky voice)

2. starting every utterance whether question, statement, or command with "so"

Wilkey

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Show-off - I'm still finger painting!

The (over)use of "like"......

Exactly.

It's painful listening to my 12 year old daughter tell a story.

"So she was like, and then I was like, and then she was like".

Almost as bad as air quotes.

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Dearest creature in creation,

Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy.

Tear in eye, your dress will tear.

So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Pray, console your loving poet,

Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!

Just compare heart, beard, and heard,

Dies and diet, lord and word,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain.

(Mind the latter, how it's written.)

Now I surely will not plague you

With such words as plaque and ague.

But be careful how you speak:

Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;

Cloven, oven, how and low,

Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

https://www.cs.cmu.e...r/TheChaos.html

Loved to pull this one out when I taught in China. rotfl.gif *muhahahaha*

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