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Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 2:11 pm
by DavebytheSea
Wonderful! Thank you so much, Deb.
By the way, are not all numbers imaginary?
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:18 pm
by matthew
Bathhouse, beachhead, fishhook, hitchhike, roughhouse, and withhold all contain a double 'h'.
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 5:46 pm
by Deb GP
Dave - arguably yes.
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:44 am
by shoz
matthew wrote:Bathhouse, beachhead, fishhook, hitchhike, roughhouse, and withhold all contain a double 'h'.
I'm pretty certain these should be hyphonated.
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 11:03 am
by Richard Ruck
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 hyph
enated.......?
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:47 pm
by matthew
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 10:13 pm
by shoz
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 hyph
enated.......?
OK, so I can't spell,

but I knw my hyphons!
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 12:05 pm
by J.R.
shoz wrote:Richard Ruck wrote:shoz wrote:
I'm pretty certain these should be hyphonated.
Or hyph
enated.......?
OK, so I can't spell,
but I knw my hyphons!
Are they like an onion, then ?????????????????????
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 10:48 am
by englishangel
Sunday morning brainstorming.
Why is there an 's' in lisp?
Why is dyslexia so difficult to spell?
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 10:51 pm
by cj
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!)
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 12:00 am
by Laura M
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????
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:13 am
by jtaylor
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......
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 11:18 am
by englishangel
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 7:22 pm
by Euterpe13
I think my dishwashers dissolves mine....
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:28 pm
by Laura M
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?