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The Contranym.
A Homoant, a.k.a. BrundleFly.
Rein and reign
and rain.
Iam knot sew shore . . .
Just don’t confuse them with the Bretons of Brittany.
The very first Great Courses lectures I listened to was The History of the English Language by Seth Lerer. He gives a very good explanation why the English language is, for lack of a better expression, screwed up when it comes to spelling and pronunciation.
It’s all about who is in charge. Which reminds me of another of the apostrophe boys: whose and who’s.
Who are called that because they moved to Armorica from Britain.
Then shouldn’t it be “Bretony”?
Influenced by Froggy spelling and pronunciation. The Frogs are the reason that Stewart was changed to “Stuart,” so they would pronounce the name nearly correctly.
Just remember: French is what happens when Germans are utterly unable to pronounce Latin.
Correct.
Uh, I think it’s spelled ‘America’.
No, that’s the other side of the pond. Armorica.
And then there is Britonia.
Americans make fenders by putting metal in a mold, Brits use a mould.
It’s actually more of a die set. Molds are for forming molten or at least really soft materials, but dies are for stamping and pressing. And if you put your head into the die you will die. And after they metal is formed it is painted but the plastics in the dashboard are dyed after molding.
But only if it is in the stamping press, as opposed to having a stamp and being sent through the mail. That happens in Dilbia, I hear.
I got my moral education from Gordon R. Dickson.
Unless the stamp is printed on the envelope, in which case it is more colloquially called “franked”, which is opposed to being open about something, which is being frank, but if one is eating a particular type of bastardized northern German sausage then one is eating a frank, and if one is a far-Western German then one could also be a Frank.
And back to the envelope for some other back of the envelope thoughts – I should be open, er, frank, about opening your mail, but at least (unlike Percival) I’m not wearing mail while doing so.
So, you’re saying that a Western German sausage, with honestly described ingredients, and distributed via government paid postage, would be a franked frank Frank frank?
It would also be mouldy once the post office lost it.
Frankly, I’m disturbed by this turn of events.
I’ve been to Slovenia. I’ve been to Slavonia. But I’ve never been to Slovakia.
Capital and capitol! To establish St. Paul as the Capital of Minnesota was a capital idea! They meet in a building called a capitol. They have passed laws on capital punishment in the capitol building (located on Capitol Hill, natch).
There is also “principle” and “principal. I’ve gotten used to reading it, but it still grates. (“Grates” and “greats!” Less frequent, though.)
I got into an email argument with a colleague over one line in his report. “That should read ‘principal principle,’ not the other way around.”)
EDIT: Darn autocomplete.