Understand English ?

[Whiternoise]

It's "and" isn't it?

How many "ands" in a row

How can you put the word "and" 5 times in a row in the same sentence? I need to tell a story.

The landlord of a pub called The Pig And Whistle asked a signwriter to make a new sign. When he saw it he thought that the words were too close together so he said to the signwriter "I want more space between Pig and And and And and Whistle".

[kickstart 1]

It's "and" isn't it?

Clever !

[MadduckUK]

but that would be if he was talking about a pub called the "pig and and whistle"? no? :/

[Steve B]

nah, (pig and And) and (And and Whistle)

[MadduckUK]

ohh i seeeeee

[Syd]

Clever

But is 'number' a word in this context?

No wonder its confusing !

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

[Whiternoise]

I think i would say my jaw got more numb.. but meh

[chicken]

Who knows what this says?

Ghoti

[99Flake]

According to the dictionary the word 'number' (in that example's context) is a word. Although as Whiternoise says I would prefer to say 'more numb' sounds far nicer.

[Steve B]

Who knows what this says?

Ghoti

Goatse?

[Stewart]

Fork andles and Andles for forks. Andy Forkandles.

Whats this thread about?

[chicken]

Goatse?

Haha! No, thankfully!

No, what it says is pronounced "Fish"...


Say these words, pay attention to the letters in Bold

Cough
Women
Station

[Steve B]

thats smart
surely though, a set of letters gets its sound by the letters around it?

[MadduckUK]

this was on never mind the full stops or something wasnt it?

quite like that proggy

[chicken]

It's been around a long time, my primary school teacher told me that about 15 years ago.

erk! feel old

[RavenNight]

I don't get the 'cough, women, station' what am I missing?