How.....Why... ? Mysteries of the universe

DavebytheSea · Post by **DavebytheSea** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:11 pm

Wonderful! Thank you so much, Deb.

By the way, are not all numbers imaginary?

matthew · Post by **matthew** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:18 pm

Bathhouse, beachhead, fishhook, hitchhike, roughhouse, and withhold all contain a double 'h'.

Deb GP · Post by **Deb GP** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:46 pm

Dave - arguably yes.

shoz · Post by **shoz** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:44 am

matthew wrote:Bathhouse, beachhead, fishhook, hitchhike, roughhouse, and withhold all contain a double 'h'.

I'm pretty certain these should be hyphonated.

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:03 am

shoz wrote:
matthew wrote:Bathhouse, beachhead, fishhook, hitchhike, roughhouse, and withhold all contain a double 'h'.
I'm pretty certain these should be hyphonated.

Or hyphenated.......?

matthew · Post by **matthew** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:47 pm

shoz wrote:I'm pretty certain these should be hyphonated.

I'd certainly leave a hyphen out of 'withhold'.

The others could go either way, but they're in the dictionary I have here without one.

shoz · Post by **shoz** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:13 pm

Richard Ruck wrote:
shoz wrote:
matthew wrote:Bathhouse, beachhead, fishhook, hitchhike, roughhouse, and withhold all contain a double 'h'.
I'm pretty certain these should be hyphonated.
Or hyphenated.......?

OK, so I can't spell,

but I knw my hyphons!

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:05 pm

shoz wrote:
Richard Ruck wrote:
shoz wrote: I'm pretty certain these should be hyphonated.
Or hyphenated.......?
OK, so I can't spell, but I knw my hyphons!

Are they like an onion, then ?????????????????????

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:48 am

Sunday morning brainstorming.

Why is there an 's' in lisp?

Why is dyslexia so difficult to spell?

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

cj · Post by cj » Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:51 pm

Why does everyone disappear when the table needs laying/clearing? Or indeed whenever I appear and am about to start talki .... oh, I thought you were there?

Why do your children never appreciate you?

Why do you always join the longest queue in the supermarket?

Why does the shortest queue in the supermarket always have at its head the person who can't find their purse/has a built in problem with everything?

Why does a restaurant always run out of the pudding you would like?

Why did the tide go out? (Because the seaweed!)

Laura M · Post by **Laura M** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:00 am

Where have the teaspoons gone???? Why do I never have any?? Are the pixies stealing them or are they being lured away with tales of the outside by odd socks????

Post by **jtaylor** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:13 am

Laura M wrote:Where have the teaspoons gone???? Why do I never have any?? Are the pixies stealing them or are they being lured away with tales of the outside by odd socks????

There is no spoon......

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:18 am

Laura M wrote:Where have the teaspoons gone???? Why do I never have any?? Are the pixies stealing them or are they being lured away with tales of the outside by odd socks????

Different ages different reasons.

Students throw them out with the rest of the detritus on the floor when clearing up before a visit. (parental or new boy/girlfriend delete as appropriate.

Flat-dwellers lose at least one a week down the waste disposal.

Parents lose them because they are sent to school in the lunchbox with the healthy yogurt and never come home again.

Euterpe13 · Post by **Euterpe13** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:22 pm

I think my dishwashers dissolves mine....

Laura M · Post by **Laura M** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:28 pm

Nah I'm still gonna stick with the pixies are stealing them, makes life a little bit more exciting. However, this is a growing problem, in Melbourne, Oz, scientists have calculated that 3 tonnes worth of teaspoons are going missing each year, thats enough that if lain end to end would go round the Earth, twice! Perhaps the pixies steal them and have created a palace made solely of spoons?