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Well, I tried. Actually it's 10/82 nothing and 72/82 something. That was the least I could do. Remember, you can't have pure nothing. "There's always something."

Someone should declare this thread "Null and Void".
But, is null something and void nothing,
or, is void something and null nothing,
or, are they both something,
or, are they both nothing?

I'm assuming they are both nothing.

But, I still cannot decide which is the better nothing.
Is it nothing or nuthin'?

Rick Collins wrote: Is it nothing or nuthin'?

That, Rick, depends on where you live and nothing else.

Nothing is better than nothing.

That, Rick, depends on where you live and nothing else.

Rich, I was thinking that it might depend on the color of my neck and nothing else.
Why is it, I know so much more about dermatology than I do geography.

Rick Collins wrote:...Is it nothing or nuthin'?

It's nuffink.

..or nuffin'... or nuttin'... sometimes de big Goose Egg...


...uh yeah, you get it

Alan; as a Brit, nothing annoys me more than people saying the letter `H` as Haitch instead of Aitch. I lie of course. There are many fings that annoy me more.

Arch.

As a Brit, one of the things that annoys me is the way some people pronounce names where t and h happen to come next to each other, as if they were th as in thing. In ALL of the following names, the th should be pronounced as a t...

Thomas is pronounced Tomas
Mathilda is pronounced Matilda
Aretha is pronounced Areta
Anthony is pronounced Antony
Theresa is pronounced Teresa
Thames is pronounced Tems
Thailand is pronounced Tiland
Luthier is pronounced Lutier
Thaddeus is pronounced Taddeus
Theador is pronounced Teador
Thelma is pronounced Telma

Even people who have had these names all their lives are often unaware as to how to pronounce their own names. This is particularly so with Anthony and Theador, yet those people never question why they get abbreviated to Tony and Teddy, and NOT Thony and Theddy.

I'm sure you're all aware of many more examples. What can we do about it ?

NOTHING.

`Tony and Teddy, and NOT Thony and Theddy`.

I know. It's enough to make you thick!

Arch.

I tink I'm feeling sic. Maybe I'll go read Dnt Undrstnd for a bit !!

Regards, Palsy

..and let's not forget the additional letters in the English alphabet, yod and thorn, both of which succumbed to the printing trade. So, words like the, this, that and those, used to be spelt ¥e, ¥is, ¥at and ¥ose. (I'm using the nearest character in the ASCI table). Modern eyes look at those words and think that they're ye, yis, yat and yose. The word YE has NEVER been used as the definite article. It has always been the plural of THOU, or, originally THEE.

Add to this the fact that, in the middle ages, stonemasons and signwriters were paid by the letter, so they loved to double consonants and add es to words. That's why they often spelt shop as shoppe, and all those words ending in c used to end in ck.... physick, comick, panick, chronick, alphabetick, etc. (no, not etck.)

So we have ¥e Olde Shoppe, which would NEVER have been pronounced Ye Oldy Shoppy. It has ALWAYS been pronounced The Old Shop .

What can we do about it ?

NOTHING.

And another thing! Mispronun..?..mispronou..?..mispronouncia...???!!!. People saying words wrong!
eg: Febuary, nukular(Bushism), secetary, etc.

Erch.

It's been happening for years. 40% of our language is mispronounced Mediæval French, which itself is mispronounced Latin. Another 40% is mispronounced and simplified Old Saxon and Old Norse. The "s" on the end of verbs, such as goes, comes, takes, only turned up because half of the country lisped when saying goeth, cometh, taketh (pronounced goth, comth, takth... the e wasn't pronounced until people started reading the King James version of the Bible.)

And it's not only English. Modern French no longer pronounces most of the verb endings or consonants at the end of words unless they're followed by a word starting in a vowel. The following words are ALL pronounced the same in French...

donner, donnez, donnai, donnais, donnaient, donné, donnée, données, donnés, donnait

Whereas the Dutch seem to revise their spellings every few decades, and their consonants are disappearing or changing. Goeden Morgan is nowadays pronounced houimorgn. The d's are gradually changing to t's, so goed (pronounced good) is becoming goot.

Yes Archie, what is the world coming to ? One and two used to rhyme with bone and throw. Whatever happened to the first d in Wednesday ? Someone already stole the g in Frigday and the n in Saturnday, not to mention one of the o's in Moonday.

And what can we do about it ?

NOTHING.

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<hr>That's nothing. How about this?

b0b wrote:<hr>
<hr>That's nothing. How about this?

I beg your pardon b0b; but that page is not blank.
It contains type reading:
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Again, I cannot find any nothing here.
Does nothing actually exist?

Today, nothing cheered me up more than this:

kick here

Nae luck, Celtic.
Gerrit right up ye!

Arch.

Uhhhhhh......we could take the o out of nothing. And we could put it in Monday. We could then restore Moonday to its original spelling. But it would change nothing, I'm afraid.

Yes, it would change nothing. Then we would have...

NTHING.

But why doesn't February have 30 days by taking one away from each January and March. The result is no change in days so we'd have gnihton to worry about; Right ?? Or is it Left....

Regards, Paul

Or, better still, have thirteen months, each of four weeks. That makes 52 weeks, or 364 days. The extra say could be a holiday thrown into the middle of the year. The beauty of having ever month exactly four weeks is that every month would be exactly the same...

Su M T W Th F St
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28

The above would serve for every month for every year.

In case you think I thought this up all on my own, I didn't. Accountants thought it up centuries ago. The first job I had was in local government in England, and they used thirteen Accounting Periods each year.

What can we do to get it changed ?
NOTHING.

I still don't know why some ancient thought one month should be shortest. Is there gnihton to be said about that hasppenstance ?? Where's Bill Hankey when you need gnihton ??

Regards, luaP

Paul Graupp wrote:I still don't know why some ancient thought one month should be shortest.

Nothing to it. February is cabin fever month. It already lasts forever... so why stretch it out further??