English is a glorious language
In honor of the fact that the University of Michigan has achieved an unsurpassed combination of academics and athletics, I'd like to pass along something I haven't seen mentioned before.
Michigan's sports (basketball) and school (observation & analysis) demonstrates the wild energy of the English language, providing THREE (3) different pronunciations of "ei":
i.e., Beilein and Brazdeikis. Aka, Bee-line & Brazdaykis
(Yeh, yeh, Brazdeikis is Lithuanian but this is America, baby! Now it's English too. Name your next child Brazdeikis. Assuming you already named your first child Beilein.)
Word.
Yep, I've been saving up a long list of OT inanity.
The English language. Dying a little every day since Antonio Brown signed up for Twitter.
The English language. Dying a little every day since Twitter.
FIFY
I want some of whatever OP is smoking
Alright
I feel like you'd get along well with Bill Walton.
Maybe it IS Bill Walton! <mindblown.gif>
My lungs couldn't hang with Bill
Pretty neat bud
This is why convenience store attendants sometimes get confused at accents......
Great GIF doctor.
Plus - I think there is a "Mercedes" behind Danny D - and each of the "e's" in that word have a different pronunciation............. so there's that.
Yes, everything in this gif was intentional. Like Kubrick.
the more I watch this GIF the more I am reminded of that old Sam Kinison response to a heckler...."Sam....there's too much"
...Ok.
English?
"What" ain't no country I ever heard of.
Gosh. I hope you're not as . . . energized by my post as Jules is by this gentleman's words.
Eye sea watt ewe dun their.
This is sofa king wee todd did!!
I see we tried edibles for the first time today. Have fun and if you need help just throw up the Mad Hatter signal in the sky
Always here to help.
Either I am not so good at reading, or you are not so good at counting, but I only see TWO (2) different pronunciations?
Edit - I didn't see that you were counting the two different pronunciations within Beilein's name. That was not clear to me
I was going to comment on there not being three but then re-read. Glad I caught it before making a comment. ;)
Me 2
glad I could take one for the Teim (this is a fourth, pronounced Team)
March 27th, 2019 at 11:48 AM ^
Y'all gotta admit English is weird. There's the ever decreasing lack of conjugationss (subjunctive now being dead except for "to be"), and moreover, the mix between German and Latin. "Healthy vs Well" is a good example. Two totally did language sources.
You see this with Spanish too. They claim that all letters have only one sound, but "x" has like 12 different ones. Its not due to Castillian Spanish, but rather the mix between languages ( Mayan and Aztec). It *is* interesting.
i before e, except after... B?
and L, and D.
Brian what’s the i before e rule?
i before e....always
Brian Regan - comedic gold standard
Going to a wedding this weekend. Just figured out what I'm getting them for a present.
Wassup Bro?
Please be Thursday already...
Long live the Engs!
you wrote 'THREE' but you only gave us 2. what happened to the third? lost? stolen? taken in a pronunciation robbery?
Two are in Beilein, the other in Brazdeikis
Beilein and Brazdeikis
There's three. I still don't know if this validates his post. I feel like I got a contact high from him just from reading that.
i'm with lilpenny. does not validate. does not compute. could be legal marijuana involved with the OP.
It's even more glorious when subject and predicate agree.
Try it sometime.
Ice Cube once told me it gets funky when you have a subject and a predicate.
Old MacDonald had a farm.