tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071830940339914895.post6685570077159311960..comments2023-11-05T03:37:08.405-08:00Comments on Pumpkin Delight: Owls and Oranges and a Week Into Daylight SavingsPumpkin Delight (Kimberly)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15754292671421221960noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071830940339914895.post-18444499096397889632014-03-17T22:43:47.921-07:002014-03-17T22:43:47.921-07:00I'm with ya on owl, and with orange I see it, ...I'm with ya on owl, and with orange I see it, I just don't say it that way. :)Pumpkin Delight (Kimberly)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15754292671421221960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071830940339914895.post-47816416633411793152014-03-17T12:58:07.342-07:002014-03-17T12:58:07.342-07:00lol.. you are in the minority.
i just clapped it o...lol.. you are in the minority.<br />i just clapped it out.. orange and owl are both two syllable words to me. Hena Tayebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15419428884435062756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071830940339914895.post-8469221291430193602014-03-16T20:02:25.280-07:002014-03-16T20:02:25.280-07:00Maybe ornj is a California native pronunciation. ...Maybe ornj is a California native pronunciation. And owl just doesn't sound right without that extra syllable.<br />As for the time change...since most of this year's class acts like they're still in kinder it WAS hell this last week. Spring break can not come soon enough.Pumpkin Delight (Kimberly)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15754292671421221960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071830940339914895.post-92157061418088038412014-03-16T16:51:48.497-07:002014-03-16T16:51:48.497-07:00I think ornj an owwww-l are correct :)
Time chang...I think ornj an owwww-l are correct :)<br /><br />Time change? Hell! But not as much hell as in kinder.<br />Happy Sunday!Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06295499795085860012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071830940339914895.post-30142533689330350342014-03-16T11:38:18.150-07:002014-03-16T11:38:18.150-07:00Ha ha ha! I know right?!?! I'm sure that is ...Ha ha ha! I know right?!?! I'm sure that is regional too. Sitting around the teacher lounge that time, we all said it a bit differently. <br />I forgot to mention before, I rather enjoyed the way you all say "three" over there, and even more so "thirty-three" and "thirty-third". :)Pumpkin Delight (Kimberly)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15754292671421221960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071830940339914895.post-86087555225279731022014-03-16T09:54:22.844-07:002014-03-16T09:54:22.844-07:00You darn pe-st. I climbed the mountain and came ba...You darn pe-st. I climbed the mountain and came back down all with the Or-an-je, O-ránge, Ornj, Or-ange, Or-enge, Or-en-ge, Rr-nge, and Or-ange ploughing a furrow in my ear. Here's my tuppenceworth. I pronounce it with an extra 'r'. Or-range. Where the R is by far the most stressed letter. It was like simplifying a square-root. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071830940339914895.post-9883526862679332262014-03-16T08:57:58.954-07:002014-03-16T08:57:58.954-07:00Yah, I think most people are getting a little tire...Yah, I think most people are getting a little tired of the time changes each year. The silly thing is, we have like 4 states that don't do it, so it just doesn't make a lot of sense for the rest of us.<br /><br />Interesting on the word origins. I knew it on owl!!! It's just too hard to say it in one. English is such a difficult language to teach because we have all these "rules" that in reality barely apply because there are so many exceptions to those rules. We teach kids about word origins to help them better tackle a new word vocabulary-wise. The language comes from so many origins, it's hard for some to keep them all straight.Pumpkin Delight (Kimberly)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15754292671421221960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7071830940339914895.post-84905217973907884852014-03-16T02:04:01.907-07:002014-03-16T02:04:01.907-07:00Our hour doesn't shift 'til the end of the...Our hour doesn't shift 'til the end of the month. But it's a bit of a pest. One I really don't know why we still endure. The old excuse had to do with the farming chores, as if the cows being milked at 7 or 8:o'clock mattered a hoot to the cows.<br /><br />Film is pronounced Fi-lim here, and three and tree are indistinguishable. <br />On owl, you are correct. They are in error. The word is a contraction ( see before 900; Middle English oule, Old English ūle; cognate with Low German ūle, Dutch uil; akin to German Eule, Old Norse ugla. ) so in effect has an 'e' on the end or an 'a'. This is true for most words in English sourced in Old Norse/German or Saxon. <br />When the Normans invaded they brought with them many words. That's why you find two words for the same thing. Veal and Calf for instance. Beef from Boeuf instead of Fleisch or flesh. Pork not Swine or hog. But where the French sounding one has a higher position, or at least it had until lately when the regional accents. <br />When you read Shakespeare aloud and don't add the space for the extra syllable it is unutterable. Not always, but if you see Spencer's Faerie Queen he has them in but you don't or can choose not to aspirate them. Those two mark the changes wrought in Oxford and Cambridge to the English language in the late years of the 16th century. The cause was the translation of the bible into English and the resulting standardization of the regional. Albeit for those wealthy enough to read. <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com