Cadbury made his first ever choccy egg in 1875....same year my beloved hibees were formed....
....nae wonder im a chocoholic!😝😝
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12-04-2020 10:03 AM #751The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game
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16-04-2020 11:39 AM #752
The lyrics of Bohemian Rhapsody contain the title of the song that knocked it off number one - Mamma Mia.
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21-04-2020 03:57 PM #753
Espresso has nothing to do with being quick to make or drink. It's to do with being made at high pressure, "pressed out".
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21-04-2020 06:09 PM #754This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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21-04-2020 06:22 PM #755This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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21-04-2020 06:43 PM #756This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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22-04-2020 01:10 AM #757This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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22-04-2020 03:24 PM #759
The phrase the bees knees to describe something as good comes from a mistranslation of Italians saying business.
United we stand here....
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26-04-2020 04:55 PM #760This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Crossword today. Clue is "people do this with espresso and paella ".
The answer is "mispronounce", which I had to Google as it was ripping my knitting.
I get that many people get "paella" wrong, but "espresso "? What's your thoughts on the correct way to pronounce it?
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26-04-2020 04:59 PM #761This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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26-04-2020 05:15 PM #762This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What way do others say it? Or maybe it's the expresso mentioned above, which I can't say I've ever heard used 😁
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26-04-2020 07:41 PM #764This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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26-04-2020 08:29 PM #765This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
What's worse is when you live abroad and you have to deliberately mispronounce English words and names in order to be understood.
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26-04-2020 08:58 PM #766This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
How could folk mispronounce it?
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26-04-2020 09:51 PM #767This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I would guess that different languages create different ways of shaping one's mouth and pronunciation tendencies, and that may become evolutionary over centuries, and essentially force people to mispronounce 'foreign' words, unless they make a determined conscious effort. In English, the letter 's' following a vowel tends to be stronger, I think. Latin languages are different from Slavic languages, for example, so there are words of each that both the other sides struggle with.
English, as we speak it, is a bit of a mongrel language - it fascinates me that a lot of the words for meats are derived from French, but the words for the animals are derived from the Anglo-Saxon, reflecting that after the Norman Conquest, the rich could afford to eat meat but the poor only farmed it.
For what it is worth, I can't say 'library' without a very conscious effort. It comes out as 'librarary' unless I really focus!There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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26-04-2020 11:11 PM #768This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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27-04-2020 09:55 AM #769
What are the right and wrong ways to say paella?
I can see how someone might say expresso instead of espresso. I'm not even sure which I'd say naturally without thinking about it in all honesty.Mon the Hibs.
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27-04-2020 10:17 AM #770This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I don't really think it's that big a deal though. People mispronounce words that are foreign to them regularly. I'd be more inclined to forgive someone who mispronounces paella or cerveza than I would be some guy in a Celtic away top bellowing 'TWO LAGERS AND A PLATE O CHIPS' at the top of his voice.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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27-04-2020 10:39 AM #771This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Agreed with the bottom paragraph, it's all about the effort more than the execution.Mon the Hibs.
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27-04-2020 11:04 AM #772This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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27-04-2020 11:14 AM #773This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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30-04-2020 09:34 AM #774This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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30-04-2020 11:30 AM #775
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I am very good at Spanish pronunciations. It seems to come naturally. I can shift into the tongue curl ' Z ' as in chorizo easily.
BTW I have never understood why the Spanish has the lisp it has. I have read of conformity to the Habsburg (?) lisp but I still am not convinced.
Any ideas?
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30-04-2020 12:14 PM #776
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Is this a whoosh??
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30-04-2020 12:16 PM #777
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30-04-2020 01:27 PM #778This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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30-04-2020 01:40 PM #779This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
There, that was useless.
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30-04-2020 04:39 PM #780This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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