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14 January 2013
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MOSQUITOES!
They are driving me up the wall, through the roof, round the bend, and out of my mind!!!!!!!!
and gnats. Why are they spelled gnats when we just say nats? A pet peeve within a pet peeve!
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29 August 2013
Offline “Why are they spelled gnats when we just say nats? A pet peeve within a pet peeve!”
It’s possible the g was pronounced at some stage in some place.
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Offline trcanberra said
“Why are they spelled gnats when we just say nats? A pet peeve within a pet peeve!”It’s possible the g was pronounced at some stage in some place.
Is that the same for gnashers and gnome?
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Offline “Why are they spelled gnats when we just say nats?”
I don’t Know…
Maybe I’ll put my Knickers on and go Knock with my Knuckles on the door of my neighbor, who lives behind a Gnarly tree and who is very Knowledgeable about many things and has a Knack for such things. Should I try the door Knob? Oh well, while I wait for him to answer (he takes a long time), I will Gnash my teeth, flex my Knees and sit on his garden Gnome that looks like a cross between a Gnu and a Knave, and Gnaw on a strip of dried fruit I took from my Knapsack and cut with a Knife; and if I end up waiting too long, take out my Knitting to do, and daydream of wandering in Knight-errantry beyond the Knoll of Knotgrass yonder…
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This is why we should change the language so that their are no exceptions to rules like have takeed instead of took and get rid of pointless silent letters so knife is now nife
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29 August 2013
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trcanberra said
“Why are they spelled gnats when we just say nats? A pet peeve within a pet peeve!”It’s possible the g was pronounced at some stage in some place.
Is that the same for gnashers and gnome?
Possibly. As noted above with the letter ‘k’ all sorts of odd pronunciations existed in times gone by 🙂
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meanmistermustard said
trcanberra said
“Why are they spelled gnats when we just say nats? A pet peeve within a pet peeve!”It’s possible the g was pronounced at some stage in some place.
Is that the same for gnashers and gnome?
Possibly. As noted above with the letter ‘k’ all sorts of odd pronunciations existed in times gone by 🙂
What’s gnu with you?
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All the instrumentation is ever-so-slightly flat, and that makes it impossible to play along with without tuning your guitar (or other instrument) slightly flat to suit. And then the flute at the end is at the correct pitch and therefore sounds sharp. Ergh!
(Out-of-tuneness is a major pet peeve with me. Even in minor keys.)
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Offline It’s not really a peeve with me but as you say it causes trouble if you want to play along. If you want to play Mother Natures Son there is a nice convenient solo bottom E in the intro. But if you use that to tune your guitar the same as Paul’s the top E comes out sharp compared to the his on the cd. The problem is he can play with a flat top E (maybe he likes it that way) and it sounds great when he does it, but it doesn’t when you do it!!
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Also when people, like, totally end, like, every sentence in, like, a question mark? And use, like, wayyyy too many likes and totallys and y’knows? And it, like, drives me totally up the wall? It’s like they can’t, you know, articulate themselves?
*takes off valley-speak hat*
It’s scary how it sneaks up on you. Uggggghhhhh. I try to avoid it whenever possible.
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Offline Ah, Now I agree totally! Also the new habit of starting every other sentence with a superfluous ‘So’. Plus people misusing the word ‘myself’ constantly in order to sound educated.
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Ah, Now I agree totally! Also the new habit of starting every other sentence with a superfluous ‘So’. Plus people misusing the word ‘myself’ constantly in order to sound educated.
It’s the endless “like”s that get me, like.
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…the new habit of starting every other sentence with a superfluous ‘So’.
Similarly, there is a local TV news anchorwoman who starts every story with “Well, …”. Drives me bonkers. 
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2.05am
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29 August 2013
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I know we need them to fix bugs and add features; but it always seems to happen when someone comes over to play something and I have to do a 3GB update on (almost) the slowest internet on the planet.
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Offline Updates are always a pain. Download a normal 1gb file takes about 20 minutes, download any windows update and you’re there for days struggling with a computer thats having an identity crisis.
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Offline I retired to live in Thailand…….Cheap……..warm…..and half-way to Australia where my son lives. He’s been popping over on chaperoned flights since he was 6. He loves it here……lots for him to do. But also he loves the speed of my internet. I offered him my TV android to take home…He said a waste of time wouldn’t work with his slow speeds.
My pet peeve today was trying to pull into supermarket parking spaces only to find shopping-trolleys discarded in the middle of them.
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Offline Zig said
Sugarplum fairy said
…the new habit of starting every other sentence with a superfluous ‘So’.Similarly, there is a local TV news anchorwoman who starts every story with “Well, …”. Drives me bonkers.
Don’t go to Ireland then Zig- it’s an Irish language thing* that somehow managed to cling onto desperately to our Anglicanized-society.
*In Irish it’s spelt ‘Bhuel’ pronounced the same though, don’t ask me why, Irish is just weird.
If you want to say “How are you?” you can say “Well?” around here as well (teehee).
Pet Peeve: The back of my earring fell out and I cannot for the live of me found it- it’ll become acquainted with the hoover nozzle if I don’t find it soon >.>
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That doesn’t sound so bad, ASJr. My peeve is with the woman delivering the news like this:
Well, there was a robbery downtown today…
Well, a fire destroyed a business on Main Street…
Well, I use a verbal crutch over and over when I speak and it drives Zig crazy…
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29 August 2013
Offline meanmistermustard said
Updates are always a pain. Download a normal 1gb file takes about 20 minutes, download any windows update and you’re there for days struggling with a computer thats having an identity crisis.
And mine takes about 3 times as long – if you are not on the new broadband infrastructure down here you really struggle; and not many of us can tap into it just yet.
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Offline Leaving your medication in the house so you have to abandon all your plans and come home to take it.
Leaving tea-bags in the house. The time before i had to drink Earl Grey which is quite remarkable in managing to be so revolting; this time it was Scottish Blend which is fine until you get the aftertaste. How folk can settle for such filth is beyond all rhyme and reason. 
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