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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by stevekemp on Saturday November 28, 2015 @01:45PM (#10641923)
And don't forget words that are pronounced differently with identical spelling, for added hilarity:

* Polish people live in Poland.

* Polish your boots.

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by tricolon on Saturday November 28, 2015 @01:53PM (#10641950)
Obligatory link to Nolst Trenité's "The Chaos": http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by stevekemp on Saturday November 28, 2015 @02:57PM (#10642165)
New to me, thanks for sharing.

Some great examples there, such as "minute" and "minute". heh.

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by leoc on Saturday November 28, 2015 @09:48PM (#10643520)
'Feoffer' is probably the worst word there. But just maybe the worst snare in English is 'positive' — the other 'positive' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_organ . Yes it's obviously some kind of loan-word, but then so are most English words...
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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by ziotom78 on Saturday November 28, 2015 @05:32PM (#10642775)
Another example:

* I read this book whenever I feel lonely.

* I read this book many years ago

A friend of mine coming from Scotland once told me that he phoned Twinings (the English tea maker) in order to understand how to pronounce it ("twain..." or "twin...").

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by Al-Khwarizmi on Saturday November 28, 2015 @06:40PM (#10643025)
So, don't make us go to sleep without knowing how to actually pronounce Twinings! I have no idea and now want to know.
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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by vacri on Saturday November 28, 2015 @06:52PM (#10643062)
Twine-ings. As in twine/string. Rhymes with wine. The 'ings' is pretty standard, like in 'things'.

Twinings is a name, though - and all bets are off when it comes to name pronunciation.

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by pandler on Saturday November 28, 2015 @06:32PM (#10642999)
"Polish Remover"

A bottle of solvent or leader of the Nazi party?

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