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If you have an email ending in @hotmail.com, @live.com or @outlook.com (or any other Microsoft-related domain), please consider changing it to another email provider; Microsoft decided to instantly block the server's IP, so emails can't be sent to these addresses.
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
If you use an @yahoo.com email or any related Yahoo services, they have blocked us also due to "user complaints"
-UE
Pronouncing "herb" and related words (such as "herbivore") with a silent h
This REALLY bugs me.
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Waitwaitwait...the "h" isn't supposed to be silent? I'm confused now.
Only if you speak American English. Pronouncing the "h" is standard procedure in Australia and, as far as I know, everywhere else where English is commonly spoken that isn't North America.
Well then. I learn something new every day, I guess!
Americans have indeed done strange things to the English language...
Another one:
The North American pronunciation of "aluminum" goes "ah-loom-in-um", right? Everywhere else, it's "al-um-in-um".
That one sticks out as an example of defying the spelling of the word in pronunciation.
Though it's not like spelling and pronunciation are more than vaguely related in english.
Aluminum, aluminium, aluminiumumumumumumuplayer
ARUMINIUMU KEISO RIN (RIN!)
Didn't Eddie Izzard say something about this once?
Yoshi! Iou! Enso argon (argon!), kariumu karushiumu (karitto BON!~)
damn dagnabbit daggit nabbit
^^
^Yeah, that's it.