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You might ponder on 'fox', the male, and 'vixen', the female.
The -en is a female ending (as well as plural) in germanic languages and the f and v interchange often, as in 'van', and 'from'. I seem to recall one is old saxon the other old norse.
Then the 'he goes'. Used to be 'he goeth', in proper southern style english, but apparently we ended up with the northern version.
There are some very close conections between English dialect forms and for example Dutch.
The Brummie yow, for you, is straight out of Dutch, and the yorkshire 't as in "going 't pub" is also used in Dutch. 'thuis is home for example.
Yet these forms are even't officially english despite their obvious ancestry.
It is a mess English, really.
Then you add French on top... just gets worse! 
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Read and lead rhyme, and read and lead rhyme, but read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.
You also can't have manslaughter without laughter.
I like English - it keeps the foreigners away.
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But read and red do rhyme, with led!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: it keeps the foreigners away.
I thought that was the customs unit
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To your rant list, add "adjective order". Nobody teaches you this - or at least I don't recall it ever being mentioned - but there is a definite order to adjectives before a noun which when broken marks you out as a non-native speaker (Possibly a managed speaker?)
Quantity, Quality, Size, Age, Shape, Colour, Material or origin, Purpose.
A dozen fine small old oblong green wooden French sports bicycles please. Try it with just one out of order:
A fine small old oblong green dozen wooden French sports bicycles please.
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That's a new one to me, but you are right, it does have a certain flow to it.
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 That was on my list. Hoping to bring the lounge back to the interesting discussions of the pre-otds of yesteryear.
For example I'm currently writing on a French Macbook, which has a different keyboard. The Q and the A are swapped aswell as the M and the B. but most annoyingly you have to press shift to get the "." where as not pressing shift gives you a ";"
What the f*** is that about? How is the ; used more than the . in French.
Even the cheese eating surrender monkey of a bird can't answer that.
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The word "dozen" is a noun, not an adjective. The 2nd example you provided is simply an incorrectly assembled sentence, and that's why it doesn't make sense.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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It can also be an adjective: Dozen | Definition of Dozen by Merriam-Webster[^]
But I'll agree it does depend on whose definition(s) you are using - not all sources accept "dozen" as an adjective.
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Quote: How come the word Australia has 3 A's and they all are pronounced differently?
Au != A
ia != A
as with most languages, English has more vowel sounds than there are letters to represent them. hence dipthongs.
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Chris Losinger wrote: English has more vowel sounds than there are letters to represent them. hence dipthongs.
I hope you are referring to Australian dipthongs, otherwise known as "dipflipflops" over 'ere.
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Chris Losinger wrote: dipthongs
Cue Sean and the mankini.
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*door busts open*
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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The French have no business pointing out the oddities of any language.
(As a French-Canadian, I'm allowed to say this).
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I've found out that cat is femine and dog is masculine, which I sort of get even though I dont understand the whole assigning a masculine/feminie thing.
I ponted out how ridiculous this is when she told me that both breasts and vagina are refered to as masculine. I mean WTF?
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And dick, yes, slang for penis is also feminine.
Weird eh?
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Pom Pey wrote: I dont understand the whole assigning a masculine/feminie thing.
One word... german
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What a fancy way to brag about your new female acquisition. 
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I lost my last "career" position as a programmer almost a year ago (Sept 26) and had a hard time getting back in. Many thought I was too old (48) and set in my ways. There were a couple of positions that I did make it to the final round of selection at least.
In the mean time, I did get licensed as a first responder, took a position with a sporting events company providing first aid at races. I also worked for UPS last Christmas season running packages to a million Amazon shoppers. I took a job at a quick lube and changed oil on about 1000 cars and trucks over the last 3 months.
I started Monday as part of the Senior IT Applications Team at the corporate offices of a larger manufacturing company. Kind of nice to be back in, and I am looking forward to spending the rest of my working years there.
The only downside is the coffee; I have a choice of $2.00 a cup at the cafeteria (they serve Starbucks) or vending machine instant. I thought I had a spare coffee maker but I guess I'll be doing Thermos bottles for the next couple of weeks.
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Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
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I have an old school Stanley Vacuum Bottle from my days doing field work. Fresh ground coffee brewed every morning, served hot all day!
Welcome back to the slog, good sir!
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I'll credit you the Stanley bottle, but I'm afraid you're still amateur class.
This[^] is what professional coffee drinkers (such as myself) carry.
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What I found interesting is that, in their bullet points, the first item is Imported. I would not have expected that to be a selling point in the US. Here in Singapore made in US is a huge selling point of course 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: Imported. I would not have expected that to be a selling point in the US
Sometimes it isn't, but for most Americans it's an unavoidable fact of life. Many if not most consumer products are imported, or include a significant number of imported parts. A significant amount of our food supply (produce for example) is imported.
(JSOP look away)
For what it's worth, in some cases I prefer imported products: cars, for example. I drive a Honda Civic, and have owned several other imported cars. The ironic thing is that my Civic was built less than 100 miles from where I live.
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It's not the size, it's, er, what you put in it.
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