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Why is tear (to rip) spelt the same as tear (cry)... why can't tear (to rip) be spelt tare? bare care...

English is idiotic.

Guess i'll just have to live with it... or go listen to some live music to forget about it 🙄

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Originally posted by trev33
Why is tear (to rip) spelt the same as tear (cry)... why can't tear (to rip) be spelt tare? bare care...

English is idiotic.

Guess i'll just have to live with it... or go listen to some live music to forget about it 🙄
So that bluddy stupid foreigners can moan.

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Originally posted by trev33
Why is tear (to rip) spelt the same as tear (cry)... why can't tear (to rip) be spelt tare? bare care...

English is idiotic.

Guess i'll just have to live with it... or go listen to some live music to forget about it 🙄
Maybe you can't understand how to spell what we say,
but at least you can understand what we say when we say it.

spelled.....not spelt

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Originally posted by trev33
Why is tear (to rip) spelt the same as tear (cry)... why can't tear (to rip) be spelt tare? bare care...

English is idiotic.

Guess i'll just have to live with it... or go listen to some live music to forget about it 🙄
Tare is the empty weight of a container. 😕
I bow to your post, and tie it with a bow.






😞

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Originally posted by trev33
Why is tear (to rip) spelt the same as tear (cry)... why can't tear (to rip) be spelt tare? bare care...

English is idiotic.

Guess i'll just have to live with it... or go listen to some live music to forget about it 🙄
I blame heteronymphs.

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Originally posted by trev33
Why is tear (to rip) spelt the same as tear (cry)... why can't tear (to rip) be spelt tare? bare care...

English is idiotic.

Guess i'll just have to live with it... or go listen to some live music to forget about it 🙄
Well if anything, the crying tear would have to be teer since like the man says Tare is already used. Tare weight of a box, so the box weighs 100 kg, the stuff inside weighs 1000 kg, the tare weight is 100 Kg. The total weight is 1100 Kg. So that one is already taken.

English was the first Esperanto so there are many mixed language words. It was invented so business could be done by the 4 major groups in England back in the day. I think something like the year 1400.

http://www.danshort.com/ie/timeline.htm


Originally posted by trev33
Why is tear (to rip) spelt the same as tear (cry)... why can't tear (to rip) be spelt tare? bare care...

English is idiotic.

Guess i'll just have to live with it... or go listen to some live music to forget about it 🙄
Thumbs up!


Brooms and mops are similar. You sweep with a broom, yet you mop with a mop. They must have been to lazy to come up with a word to describe what you do with a mop. 😕

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Originally posted by Very Rusty
Thumbs up!
Should that not be "thomes up"?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Should that not be "thomes up"?
What are you talking aboot?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Should that not be "thomes up"?
Pollocks!

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Tare is the empty weight of a container. 😕
I bow to your post, and tie it with a bow.






😞
If it was full of apples would they be pommes de tare?

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Should that not be "thomes up"?
You say thumbs so it it sound like it has an "O" in it?

To each his own I guess!

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Originally posted by shortcircuit
What are you talking aboot?
What you talking a'boat!

Make fun properly Yankee! 😛

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Originally posted by Palynka
I blame heteronymphs.
Why do you hate heteronymphs?