Re: OT: My wedding pictures
From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 8:06 |
--- John Cowan skrzypszy:
> By "7.5l" he means, indeed, 7.5 liters. The U.S. customary gallon is
> 3.79 liters, the Imperial gallon is 4.55 liters.
Wow, that's impressive! Peter, you seem to be a major employer of American
cows! ;)
> > "My dad is a drunk and my mother a whore, no wonder we're so devastatingly
> > poor."
>
> This actually rhymes in some varieties of American English, those that
> make the keywords [hu@\r] and [pu\@r].
FWIW, in Dutch stone coal English they rhyme: [hO:r] and [pO:r]. ;)
Interesting, how a message about wedding pictures could change into an English
pronunciation thread within one day :))) .
Jan
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"Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones
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