Walter's Famous German Language Essentials Guide

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 3 May 2016 at 05:15, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 5/2/2016 12:09 PM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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>> For every rule, there are 101 exceptions. :-)
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>> http://shirah-goes-again.blogspot.de/2011/01/entire-english-language-is-big.html
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> What's the problem? :-)
>

You can colour me impressed if you were able to read it out loud
without stuttering to sound out a word. :-P

The last list had my partner (native Italian) throw her pen down and
give up for the day on many occasions, consider the following rhyming
couplets or same sounds.

(bough, bow), (cough, quaff), (dough, doe), (enough, stuff), (hough,
shock), (lough, lock), (plough, vow), (sough, brow), (though, know),
(through, threw), (thorough, morrow)

Though I've really noticed the difference since we first lived
together - such as nowadays she says biscuit to rhyme with kit, rather
than quit. :-)

Then again, I discovered a few years ago that I was a retroflex
speaker of English.  Which when you are non-native, I've been
frequently told is very difficult to understand, if compared to your
typical North American (rhotic) or Oxford-English (non-rhotic)
speakers that you get on news channels.  My old neighbour and friend
when I lived in the UK found that out the hard way when after three
months of talking with me on a near daily basis, thought they could
understand native English very well (they considered me a challenge).
They discovered otherwise a few weeks later trying to communicate with
locals on holiday in Norfolk. ;-)