Hmmm, good memory!
________________________________ From: Archana Sharma <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, 6 February, 2010 5:20:41 PM Subject: Re: nice way to combat common english mistakes :) kaisa laga incident...or was it not clear? kumudam teacher saying pucking for puking and Mahesh A rhyming pucking with the obvious... I was showing off my memory too as it is dwindling. On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Nayan Mapani <[email protected]> wrote: Kiski baat kar rahi aap ke Memory ki ya aap ke comparison ki? > > > > ________________________________ From: Archana Sharma <[email protected]> > >To: [email protected] >Sent: Fri, 5 February, 2010 5:28:02 AM > >Subject: Re: nice way to combat common english mistakes :) > > >i remember kumudam teacher reading out a poem about a small baby -- and >reading-- mewing and puking --as pucking. A few > seconds later, Mahesh A was asked to get out. I now realise he must have > rhymed pucking to her annoyance. > > >Kaisa laga? > > > >On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:13 PM, subramaniam sreenivasan <[email protected]> >wrote: > >>> >> >> >>>>I do make a lot of spelling mistakes ... Thank god for spellcheck these >>>>days. I am sure if I make grammatical mistakes as well .. >>>> >>>>I remember this at school (probably 8th standard) when Amin Bulsari was >>>>asked to read from the english book and he read Rhinoceros as Rhino-Cors >> >>________________________________ >>Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:56:26 +0000 >>Subject: Re: nice way to combat common english mistakes :) >>From: [email protected] >>>>To: [email protected] >> >> >> >>Hey Nayan, >> >>I hope you didn't think I was picking on you, did you? >> >>The idea was to bring and discuss people's favourite/pet mistake. Mine being >>the error in spelling "occasion" and many more. Since I already knew yours I >>mentioned that. And this was because it was discussed a while ago. >> >>Of course, it doesn't matter even if you make mistakes and even i am guilty >>of never reading what I write, until i hit the send button. And it is my >>profession!!! >> >>I had a childhood friend who was quite anal about spellings...question or >>contest him and he would immediately run to the dictionary and prove himself >>right. >> >>A many years ago, while in a gossip session, i said, "your illicit >>relationship..." and he laughed and said it is illict (pronounced as illikt) >>and not ill-is-it. He had never realised there is an i before the last >>letter. I protested quite confidently this time. >> >>And he again ran to the dictionary and was completely shocked to know that >>all the while when he was reading the cover pages of Stardust, filmfare and >>gossip fares, he just didn't notice the 'i'. >> >>This is what i meant by mistakes which may be silly but refuse to get shaken >>off. >> >>Long mail? Well i have to make up for the lullness off late in the group, nai? >> >>Arch >> >> >> >> ________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. > > >________________________________ >The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it NOW! http://downloads.yahoo.com/in/internetexplorer/
