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How did the silent t come into all these tch words? It seems to me that the 'tch' behaves in English spelling the way a doubled consonant would, and the 'ch' the way a single consonant would That is, 'tch' is more likely to occur after short vowels, so you see patch, botch, and crutch, but beach, roach, and pooch
Word for sound made by tongue and teeth Is the sound made just at one side of the mouth? In the situation you describe I would make a 'click' or 'pop' sound by placing the flat of my tongue against the roof of my mouth such that it creates a seal, then (forgive me for this description, I'm sure linguists have words for these actions) pulling down with the centre of the tongue while keeping the edges sealed, so that you create a
Why do we write Tsk for the sound of disapproval? The Full OED has this for their 1947 "first citation": L Pike Phonemics ii 41 1 Do you get a sound resembling the noise of commiseration which is sometimes written in literature as ‘tsk-tsk’, or ‘tut-tut’ Fairly obviously the implication is that it was well-established by then Personally, I doubt the writer would have been particularly thinking of cartoons as "literature", and I
Where when did the *idea* of bad words come from in English? Bad Words: f*ck sh*t *ss d*mn b*tch Ok, so there's no point in listing them all The thing I'm interested in is this: Why is it that in English we have a strong sense of a group of words t
Why is karma a bitch? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Also used as the rhetorical question Ain't karma a bitch? Synonyms: What goes around, comes around Getting his just desserts He had it coming and strongly related to Payback's a bitch It is likely a mix of having bad Karma and the idiom Payback's a bitch, where Payback is performed by someone wronged by the now punished person, but Karma just happened to the person for some seemingly righteous
expressions - Origin and meaning of You catch more flies with honey . . . I risk confusing the jadarnel with this aside, but a funny observation has been made that you actually attract more fruit flies with vinegar than honey, because the acetic acid in vinegar makes them think they sense fruit Of course, the point stands that you can get what you want done better with sweetness kindness rather than with a caustic attitude