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To: ArGee; Darksheare; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; moose07

"And why isn’t onomatopoeia spelled the way it sounds?"

'Cause nobody knows how to pronounce it, and therefore nobody knows what it should sound like.

4,833 posted on 10/17/2016 3:48:19 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (If you can't do something well, you won't do anything good.)

To: NicknamedBob; ArGee; Darksheare; Tax-chick; Monkey Face; moose07

ArGee ~ "And why isn’t onomatopoeia spelled the way it sounds?"

NicknamedBob ~ 'Cause nobody knows how to pronounce it, and therefore nobody knows what it should sound like.

Until they hear it, and then it's too late...

(What's brown and sounds like a bell?)

4,860 posted on 10/18/2016 6:32:21 AM PDT by null and void (America is sick. We will find out if the disease is fatal come November.)

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