re: [lace-chat] A tad risque ...

2003-10-30 Thread Bev Walker
Hi all It is a funny one, except that the Bank of Canada has a governor, not a president, and it refers to the federal government, not a place such as where someone has a personal bank account. So, it would be a lot funnier to Canadians if the source writer had chosen their bank more carefully.

Re: [lace-chat] Re: rhyming words

2003-10-30 Thread Thurlow Weed
> At 03:36 PM 28/10/03 -0800, Joy Beeson wrote: > >Let me sit and eat this orange > >I sprained my knee, now it's a sore hinge. Now this strikes me as something Gilbert & Sullivan would have come up with. If anyone could force things into rhyming, they could! ("Very Model of a Modern Major-Genera

[lace-chat] :) Fwd: Finding Inner Peace

2003-10-30 Thread Tamara P. Duvall
I think I've seen it before, but it's still funny... From: M.K. I am passing this on to you because it has definitely worked for me. By  following the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found inner peace. It reads: "The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things

[lace-chat] A tribute

2003-10-30 Thread Maxine D
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[lace-chat] Re: Rhyming words

2003-10-30 Thread Joy Beeson
At 10:00 AM 10/29/03 +, Jane Read wrote: >whereas orange is given the pronounciation of 'orinj', which >rhymes with hinge, fringe, whinge, binge, cringe, etc, etc. Actually, it doesn't -- the emPHASis is on the wrong syLAHble. And the vowel isn't quite the same, being more of a schwa than

Re: [lace-chat] Rhyming words

2003-10-30 Thread David Collyer
Dear Jean and Interested others, >, whereas garage is considered common (Estuary >English) if pronounced garridge, but upper class if pronounced garrarje. Garage is a most interesting word in Australia with 3 different pronunciations - none of which is garridge! In our family it was always said

Re: [lace-chat] Re: rhyming words

2003-10-30 Thread David Collyer
At 03:36 PM 28/10/03 -0800, Joy Beeson wrote: Let me sit and eat this orange I sprained my knee, now it's a sore hinge. I'm really trying hard to find a word which rhymes "exactly' with orange, for I feel that the second vowel sound is not as strong as the "i" in "inge". It's more the one written