Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

No. No, you don't.

 

Chaucer phaucer.

 

We also eat scrambled eggs and play sports. America prefers our count nouns to your mass nouns. It's a whole thing. We also like articles before nouns, as in "the hospital" or "a university."

 

Given that Jaguar are a British founded company, with headquarters in Coventry, I'm gonna say that our sounding is the intended version.

 

In fairness, it was an animal first. Ford wasn't allowed to change the pronunciation of the word Mustang.

 

Were in this world, is right ynogh for me
To speke of wo that is in lego;
For, lordynges, sith I twelve yeer was of age,
Playerth me lego that is eterne on lyve
Housbondes at chirche dore I have had fyve lego box seth ad
Cristmastides

 

We invented scrambled eggs!

That's possibly and probably not true, but still.

 

Jaguar’s a cat not a car.

[oh...]

 

It's 'Jaguar is a British founded company.'

 

It took me a long time to read that, and I admit that I didn't understand about a 3rd of it.

 

Rolls Royce are German

 

Rolls, ya, but I think Royce was Austrian.

 

I thought you all called it scrambled egg. That's why I mentioned it. I've heard it that way, I'm almost sure. I know I'm right on sport/sports though. Right?

 

To be fair, real football is catching on over there (as opposed to that FIFA nonsense that girls can play.)

 

Middle English?


EDIT: I went back a page and got my answer

 

Yes, ‘scrambled egg’ or ‘eggs,’ actually.

My Dad was a Yorkshireman, his favourite supper was ‘chip and egg.’

That won’t translate anywhere.

...

My prediction is women’s rugby.

 

Seeing this is on-topic, I might mention that my English Literature professor told us to memorize the opening to Canterbury Tales in it's original middle English. There were six of us in the whole class. I spent two consecutive nights in Finals Week, with an audio file, mimicking the sounds I heard, phonetically. Finally, got the entire thing memorized, and to this day. He forgot completely about the assignment. I brought it up and he shrugged it off.

Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote... ;_;

-SIN

 

Section of ‘Wife o Bath prologue’ + lego.

 

SAME!!
Although, I took a Chaucer class, so we had all semester to focus on The Canterbury Tales.
He had us introduce ourselves by way of poems in Mid English. It was fun!

 

No, scrambled eggs - least where I come from. And the sport/sports thing depends. At school, PE was also known as sports, but football is a sport, not a sports.

 

PE was one lesson, and GAMES was the biggie, once a week on the school playing fields.

 

So I decided to stop worrying about keeping my phone on me at all times to count every single step I take in a day, and immediately started loosing my phone several times a day again. Turns out that particular obsession was a perfect counterbalance for the ADD. Snarf.

 

Yes, games. Always after dinner and to the playing field once a week as you say. The other times it was the school yard - freezing cold November, shorts and t-shirt, and that rubber football that weighed about 4lb - kicked into your already red thighs at high speed. Or your face if you were lucky.

 

All I know about British "sport":

 

Nude, on trampolines.

(heard it here first, folks)