Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:41:00 -0500
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From: joel walker <uncajoel@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject: Re: Bread Loaf citing
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> Is the "J" in Jesus pronounced "H" in Spanish or is the "H" actually
> Latin and since most Spanish countries are heavily Traditional
> Catholic
> they use the Latin "H" in Jesus as it might be said in prayers in
> Latin?
> I know "LL" is pronounced "Y", as in Lladro Porcelain is "Yadro"
> Porcelain.
> Man! All that hat makes my head hurt!
> Maybe Unca Joel knows?
Gno, eye haff know gno eyed eyah. :)
but i'll present the following for your consideration ...
English ... luff et or leef et. ;)
* We polish the Polish furniture.
* He could lead, if he would get the lead out.
* A farm can produce produce.
* The dump was so full it had to refuse refuse.
* The Legionaire decided to desert in the desert.
* The present is a good time to present the present.
* At the Army base, a bass was painted on the head of a bass drum.
* The dove dove into the bushes.
* I did not object to the object.
* The insurance for the invalid was invalid.
* The bandage was wound around the wound.
* There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.
* They were too close to the door to close it.
* The buck does funny things when the does are present.
* They sent a sewer down to stitch the tear in the sewer line.
* To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.
* The wind was too strong to wind the sail.
* After a number of Novocain injections, my jaw got number.
* I shed a tear when I saw the tear in my clothes.
* I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.
* How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?
* I spent last evening evening out a pile of dirt
* There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger;
neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
* English muffins weren't invented in England
or French fries in France.
* Sweetmeats are candies
while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are.
* Quicksand can work slowly
* Boxing rings are square
* A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
* Writers write but fingers don't fing,
* Grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
* If the plural of tooth is teeth,
why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
* One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?
* One index, 2 indices?
* You can make amends but not one amend?
* If you have a bunch of odds and ends
and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it?
* If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
* If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
* People recite at a play
and play at a recital?
* Ship by truck and send cargo by ship?
* Noses run and feet smell?
* A slim chance and a fat chance are the same
* A wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
* Your house can burn up as it burns down,
* You fill in a form by filling it out
* An alarm goes off by going on.
* When stars are out, they are visible,
but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
unca joel