Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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To distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O. (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 months ago by JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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w(uh)man to w(ih)men

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looks like it's time to recommend one of my favorite books:

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme―And Other Oddities of the English Language

I found it via an interview with the author on the 99% Invisible podcast:

Corpse, Corps, Horse and Worse

It's a great book because it lays out, very logically, all the ways our language went to shit. It was a product of the Great Vowel Shift and crappy timing regarding it, plus competing cultures ruling the lands in England.

[–] ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

Corpse, Corps, Horse, and Worse

I will keep you, Susy, busy,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy;

Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear;

Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer.

banger poem