Jeeez.

You english have too much sparetime if this is an issue.

This is Australia! A different country to England. You both speak english, but of course the accent and many words are different.

Get over it and find something useful to discuss.

Erik the Viking

Good morning Erik the Viking, you on here looking for a bit of pillaging

One thing that makes me cringe is the use of the word "of" instead of "have". eg "could of" instead of "could have". Don't think that there are too many aussies posting on here!

Don't know how many times this evening I have said saw and sore but they still sound identical to me Can't get worked up about pronounciation of words, it's no different from someone from Scotland sounding different from someone from Suffolk.

If you pronounce your vowels correctly the above statement is completety true. Unfortunately or fortunately there are so many accents in the UK that you can change a word to make it sound how you want. Saw and Sore could never sound the same in a month of Sundays to me and I have a mancunian accent. The OP was right. The teacher was a prat probably straight out of uni and still nursing a hangover from the night before.

Two words in English, hegemony and phthisis, have nine pronunciations each.
Ironically the word orthoepy, which is the word for the study of pronunciation in English can itself be pronounced two ways!
There are about 44 different distinct sounds in the English language, twelve vowels, nine dipthongs and twenty three consonants. Pronunciation in English is therefore not a precise art. Any of the groups of two words in your word search could be pronounced differently by different regional accents, you just picked up on that one because it's different to you. If you are working on your pronunciation of words you are right, if you are working on received pronunciation they are right.


I'll just get my coat......

Some people are just too damned clever for their own good

No wonder they say that English is the hardest language in the world to learn....

Well, to me, saw and sore do not sound identical, but they are pretty bloody close, so for the purposes of a school word search I would have picked them as the pair. Considering I am such a bloody pedant, I do not get too hung up on pronunciaton (apart from the Aussie habit of calling the colour maroon marone). I get far more worked up at the bad grammar and incorrect use of plurals (oh, and missing or misplaced apostrophes, and slovenly spelling, and the total ugliness of txt spk, and ........... time for my medication).

Cheers,

DagBoy

You? A pedant? as if

Not that hard. I learned it as a young child.....

You really need to waste more time on here Dag. Sorely missed

Apparently the Tasmanian aboriginies have a name for each different tree but not a word for 'tree'.

[QUOTE=moneypen20]that's no way to speak about Suzanne

I HOPE YOU AIN'T TALKING ABOUT ME.....HEHEHEHEHE
ITS ME, BACK AGAIN ON THE FORUM AFTER NEARLY 5 MONTHS IN PERTH AND LOVING IT!!!!!

PASTA pronounced PARSTA I am always asking where is the "R"

The colour MAROON pronounced MAROAN I always ask is the Moan out in the sky at night.

But as other have said "different Country"