Hehe. Don't get too nit-picky here, I can point out a time you used "your" when you meant "you're."

[QUOTE]Originally posted by magician
[B]To be a proper analogy you would have to pronounce "neighbor" as "en-ee-aye-gee-aitch-bee-oh-are".

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Elistan
[B]Hehe.

 

So "S2K".... pronounced "ess-two-kay" is an.....

but what about when you remove the first and last vowel sounds to form the word "STOOK"

or is even thinking about it instant banishment from the anti-STOOK club. =)

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Elistan
[B]I assert that "GPS" is a word, and is one not pronounced exactly like it's spelled.

 

THAT word is an abomination and I really think it should be dealt with in the same way that the word is on this site !!!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by magician
[B]

Furthermore, in English, words need vowels.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by tokyo_james
[B]


Hymn, by, my, gym, lynx, dry, drys, nymph, pygmy, rhythms .......

I agree .... Not too nit-picky.

 

How about the last name... Ng?

 

Words transliterated from another language are obviously a problem. I recall in my high school history class learning about Communist China and its secret police, the KMT. This is an abbreviation for Kuo Min Tong, but it's pronounced "guo min dong". I could never understand why it wasn't transliterated so that it was spelled as it was pronounced. Peking became Beijing--finally--for the same reason.

I'm surprised nobody's tossed out "nth".