Wavy G wrote:
>
> Well, thanks a lot, "Nancree" (?). If your goal was to embarrass me,
> and make me feel foolish in front of the entire group, well, you've
> succeeded. I guess I should leave forever now, lest I make another
> stupid mistake for which you can make fun of me.

All she did was offer you some elementary spelling corrections, and
quite politely, too. No need to feel offended or embarrassed. English
is a tough language to spell, but it's worth some effort. -aem

aem wrote:
> Wavy G wrote:
>
>>Well, thanks a lot, "Nancree" (?). If your goal was to embarrass me,
>>and make me feel foolish in front of the entire group, well, you've
>>succeeded. I guess I should leave forever now, lest I make another
>>stupid mistake for which you can make fun of me.
>
>
> All she did was offer you some elementary spelling corrections, and
> quite politely, too. No need to feel offended or embarrassed. English
> is a tough language to spell, but it's worth some effort. -aem
>

For decades, some very wise and prominent English speaking men and
women have proposed a more phonetic spelling of this difficult
language. Sooner or later this will happen, at least to some extent.

Remember the old puzzle, speaking English, how do you pronounce GHOTI?

In article >, Margaret Suran
> wrote:

> For decades, some very wise and prominent English speaking men and
> women have proposed a more phonetic spelling of this difficult
> language. Sooner or later this will happen, at least to some extent.
>
> Remember the old puzzle, speaking English, how do you pronounce GHOTI?
Fish.
Fishy, fishy, in the brook
Daddy catch him by the hook
Mommy cook him in the pan
Baby eat him like a man.

I'm partial to this poem:

Reading

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you
On hiccough, thorough, slough, through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead; it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake, don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat,
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother.
Nor both in bother, broth in brother.

And here is not a match for there,
And dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up--and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword.
And do and go, then thwart and cart.
Come, come, I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful language? Why, man alive,
I'd learned to talk it when I was five.
And yet to read it, the more I tried,
I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.


Author unknown.

From Beacons, (an elementary school reading book), Houghton Mifflin
Company

OB Food: Grilled chicken breasts, couscous, cherry chipotle sauce atop
the birdy; green beans for Rob, asparagus for me, big mixed greens
salads. Could've been worse. Could've been better.
--
-Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated in late-April.
"I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner,
performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.

"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
> In article >, Margaret Suran
> > wrote:
>
>
> I'm partial to this poem:
>
> Reading
>
> -Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated in late-April.
> "I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
> say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner,
> performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.

Thanks for sharing the poem Barb, loved it!

About Ramen Noodles....I break them in small pieces,
fry them in a little butter together with slivered almonds,
brown everything lightly while stirring,
then add some sesame seeds. Cool and add to salads.
Yummm!!!! Crunchy and tasty.

Elly
Upstate NY.

Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin', we're gonna do what they say
can't be done. We got a long way to go, and a short time to get there.
I'm eastbound, just watch ol' "George Beasley" run.

>
>"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
...
>> In article >, Margaret Suran
>> > wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm partial to this poem:
>>
>> Reading
>>
>> -Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated in late-April.
>> "I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
>> say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner,
>> performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.
>
>Thanks for sharing the poem Barb, loved it!
>
>About Ramen Noodles....I break them in small pieces,
>fry them in a little butter together with slivered almonds,
>brown everything lightly while stirring,
>then add some sesame seeds. Cool and add to salads.
>Yummm!!!! Crunchy and tasty.
>

OK...So, when do you add the flavour packet?


>Elly
>Upstate NY.
>

"Wavy G" > wrote in message
...
> Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin', we're gonna do what they say
> can't be done. We got a long way to go, and a short time to get there.
> I'm eastbound, just watch ol' "George Beasley" run.
>
> >
> >"Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> In article >, Margaret Suran
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm partial to this poem:
> >>
> >> Reading
> >>
> >> -Barb, <http://www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated in late-April.
> >> "I read recipes the way I read science fiction: I get to the end and
> >> say,'Well, that's not going to happen.'" - Comedian Rita Rudner,
> >> performance at New York, New York, January 10, 2005.
> >
> >Thanks for sharing the poem Barb, loved it!
> >
> >About Ramen Noodles....I break them in small pieces,
> >fry them in a little butter together with slivered almonds,
> >brown everything lightly while stirring,
> >then add some sesame seeds. Cool and add to salads.
> >Yummm!!!! Crunchy and tasty.
> >
>
> OK...So, when do you add the flavour packet?

Save the flavor packet for some other purpose. You can use it in a soup of
the same flavor.

>
>
> >Elly
> >Upstate NY.
> >
>

Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin', we're gonna do what they say
can't be done. We got a long way to go, and a short time to get there.
I'm eastbound, just watch ol' "Margaret Suran" run.

>
>
>aem wrote:
>> Wavy G wrote:
>>
>>>Well, thanks a lot, "Nancree" (?). If your goal was to embarrass me,
>>>and make me feel foolish in front of the entire group, well, you've
>>>succeeded. I guess I should leave forever now, lest I make another
>>>stupid mistake for which you can make fun of me.
>>
>>
>> All she did was offer you some elementary spelling corrections, and
>> quite politely, too. No need to feel offended or embarrassed. English
>> is a tough language to spell, but it's worth some effort. -aem
>>
>
>For decades, some very wise and prominent English speaking men and
>women have proposed a more phonetic spelling of this difficult
>language. Sooner or later this will happen, at least to some extent.
>
>Remember the old puzzle, speaking English, how do you pronounce GHOTI?
^^^^^
I don't get this.


>

Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin', we're gonna do what they say
can't be done. We got a long way to go, and a short time to get there.
I'm eastbound, just watch ol' "aem" run.

>
>Wavy G wrote:
>>
>> Well, thanks a lot, "Nancree" (?). If your goal was to embarrass me,
>> and make me feel foolish in front of the entire group, well, you've
>> succeeded. I guess I should leave forever now, lest I make another
>> stupid mistake for which you can make fun of me.
>
>All she did was offer you some elementary spelling corrections, and
>quite politely, too. No need to feel offended or embarrassed. English
>is a tough language to spell, but it's worth some effort. -aem


That probly seemed like good advice to you when you said it, but won
thing you didn't take into consideration, is that I ALREADY SPEAK
ENGLISH!!! I am not a foreigner; I was born and raised here in
America...and I still somehow spell that badly. Boy don't I feel dumn
now?

Wavy G wrote:
> [snip] Boy don't I feel dumn now?

I dunno, d'ya? "dumn" is too clever, I think you just gave yusseff
away.

Eastbound and down, loaded up and truckin', we're gonna do what they say
can't be done. We got a long way to go, and a short time to get there.
I'm eastbound, just watch ol' "aem" run.

>
>Wavy G wrote:
>> [snip] Boy don't I feel dumn now?
>
>I dunno, d'ya? "dumn" is too clever, I think you just gave yusseff
>away.

Hmm? I'm sorry, you must have the wrong number. "Bula vinaka
beachside," LOL?

Wavy G > wrote:

>That probly seemed like good advice to you when you said it, but won
>thing you didn't take into consideration, is that I ALREADY SPEAK
>ENGLISH!!! I am not a foreigner; I was born and raised here in
>America...and I still somehow spell that badly. Boy don't I feel dumn
>now?
>

Actually, Wavy, if you knew those involved, you would know they really
ARE just trying to be helpful. But now that the point's been made,
they won't hammer you about it or anything. No one here is mean -
we're just all a little "entertaining" and, thankfully, all completely
different, yet somehow manage to carry on a sort of "town" that, if it
existed in real life, you would find me packing up and moving to (and
yes, that grammar just sucked).