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  • 05-09-2013, 10:19 AM
    Feanor
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by JohnMichael View Post
    Whoa there, I did ask him if he was a native English speaker. Sorry I have never heard anyone say "I have bean to the store".

    Don't get around much, eh?

    Most often say "I've 'bean' to the wherever" -- and I am a native English speaker. Yes, I have said 'bin' there but usually I fully articulate the verb.
  • 05-09-2013, 10:38 AM
    JohnMichael
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Feanor View Post
    Don't get around much, eh?

    Most often say "I've 'bean' to the wherever" -- and I am a native English speaker. Yes, I have said 'bin' there but usually I fully articulate the verb.


    Judging by pronunciation guides in dictionaries including the Oxford I must say I have "bin" to the store.
  • 05-09-2013, 10:40 AM
    Feanor
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by JohnMichael View Post
    Judging by pronunciation guides in dictionaries including the Oxford I must say I have "bin" to the store.

    I suppose it is best to stick to the local vernacular. Yes, I've heard lots of people say 'bin' for the past tense of 'be' -- I'm not accusing you or them of mispronunciation.

    I usually say tuh-mey-toh, (tomato). But born many years ago, (as I was), an anglophone Montrealer, I still occasionally say tuh-mah-toh.
  • 05-13-2013, 09:05 AM
    kushy
    meet ............meat
  • 05-13-2013, 09:11 AM
    JohnMichael
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by kushy View Post
    meet ............meat

    That is correct so there will be no need to mete out punishment.
  • 05-13-2013, 10:04 AM
    JohnMichael
    Wet and whet
  • 05-13-2013, 11:03 AM
    markw
    By Buy Bye Bi
  • 05-15-2013, 09:57 PM
    blackraven
    waste-waist, principle-principal, where-wear
  • 05-16-2013, 08:45 AM
    kushy
    floor..........flour
  • 05-16-2013, 09:20 AM
    JohnMichael
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by kushy View Post
    floor..........flour

    No but flour and flower works.
  • 05-17-2013, 05:21 AM
    kushy
    lite ...............light
  • 05-17-2013, 05:55 AM
    Mingus
    whole...hole
    fone...phone
    old...ode
    but...butt
    for...four...fore
    pale...pail
    spear...spare
    heal...heel
    be...bee
    dam...damn
    pair...pear
    fluor...floor
    pi...pie
  • 05-17-2013, 06:59 AM
    JohnMichael
    I have to disagree with several. A word spelled fone? Old and ode do not sound the same to me. Spear and spare? Fluor is a root word.

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Mingus View Post
    whole...hole
    fone...phone
    old...ode
    but...butt
    for...four...fore
    pale...pail
    spear...spare
    heal...heel
    be...bee
    dam...damn
    pair...pear
    fluor...floor
    pi...pie

  • 05-17-2013, 07:04 AM
    JohnMichael
    I was on another site where a member was asking "witch cartridge should I buy" and I wanted to correct to which cartridge.
  • 05-30-2013, 09:10 AM
    kushy
    some....sum
  • 05-30-2013, 09:28 AM
    JohnMichael
    wait and weight
  • 05-30-2013, 10:51 AM
    markw
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by JohnMichael View Post
    Old and ode do not sound the same to me.

    *sniff* day do when I hab a code. *hack!*
  • 05-31-2013, 08:01 AM
    Mingus
    What about:
    pour...poor
    knead...need
  • 05-31-2013, 08:58 AM
    Feanor
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Mingus View Post
    What about:
    pour...poor
    knead...need

    Say, there's another one: poor & pore. Pore, of course, has two meanings, one a verb as in "poring over a document", the other a noun as in the skin feature.
  • 05-31-2013, 09:56 AM
    JohnMichael
    Best of luck to all the new immigrants and visitors to this country trying to learn English. All the examples we have shown makes it tough to learn.
  • 06-01-2013, 05:28 AM
    markw
    Sorry, can't buy into "poor" and "pour" being pronounced the same.

    "Poor" rhymes with boor or moor.

    "Pour" rhymes with boar (or bore, whichever you prefer) or roar
  • 06-01-2013, 05:42 AM
    JohnMichael
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by markw View Post
    Sorry, can't buy into "poor" and "pour" being pronounced the same.

    "Poor" rhymes with boor or moor.

    "Pour" rhymes with boar (or bore, whichever you prefer) or roar


    Sorry but I do not hear a difference. He is so poor he does not have a pot to piss in or a window to pour it out.
  • 06-01-2013, 05:50 AM
    markw
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by JohnMichael View Post
    Sorry but I do not hear a difference. He is so poor he does not have a pot to piss in or a window to pour it out.

    Guess it's a regional thing.
  • 06-01-2013, 06:41 AM
    JohnMichael
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by markw View Post
    Guess it's a regional thing.


    Checked the Oxford to be sure. Both had the same pronunciation. Pôr
  • 06-01-2013, 10:27 AM
    markw
    It seems to several acceptable pronunciations. Both seem to be accepted.

    See pour and poor definitions/pronunciations.

    Heck, a goodly portion of the local population around here pronunce "axe" and "ask" the same.