Your body parts don't mean what you think.

RobWords: The English words nobody can explain

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Anglophenia? The English language doesn't exist: it's badly pronounced French

 

... And That is only in GB!

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Beneath the provocative title and humour, the prominent academic hopes to convey the cross-Channel linguistic tangle since the Norman conquest of 1066 -- and how ridiculous French resistance to "anglicisms" can be.

"You can also see my book as an homage to the English language, which has been able to adopt so many words... Viking, Danish, French, it's astonishing," Cerquiglini said.

What if English were phonetically consistent?

Aaron Alon

The Importance of Serial Commas

Stupid People Or Anglophenia Or I am Waiting For The Racists To Ask Me To Perform A Operation On A Patient, As a Way To Prove My Supposed Intelligence

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