[WWI] Spell check

Fri Jun 1 22:12:21 EDT 2007

Wow, I haven't heard anyone else ask for a Long John for years....the ones my
m om got from the bajkery were plain, without custard filling, iirc.
Mike Muth
Stephen Auslender <auslend at snet.net> said:

> I grew up in Chicago which has a large German and Polish population.
> Almost all the bakeries were German. Wonderful food!
> I moved out east to Connecticut and a friend from Chicago came to visit.
> We stopped by a donut place and went in, sat down and tried to order.
> First Geophrey asked for a Long John. The waitress said what? What's a Long 
> John? [a long john is a long custard filled roll with chocolate on top]. The 
> donut shop had them but under another name.
> So my friend asked for a Bismarck. Now the girl was getting a bit peeved. "A 
> Bismarck!?"
> So Geophrey gave up and said, "Oh, just give me a Kaiser roll.
> With this the girl got furious, turned around and stalked off.
> I couldn't help because I was helpless with laughter.
> Finally I ordered for both of us but the girl continued to give us very 
> dirty looks.
> I'm still laughing and that happened thirty five years ago.
> Stephen
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andy Bannister" <a.bann at ntlworld.com>
> To: "'World War I Modeling Mailing List'" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 9:58 AM
> Subject: Re: [WWI] Spell check
> 
> 
> > I'm still having trouble communicating with the brits even though I've 
> > lived
> > here almost 10 years now. I went in to a hardware shop last year and asked
> > for some finishing nails. After a brief puzzled look the lady went over to 
> > a
> > bin and started scooping out some large flat head roofing nails! 
> > Eventually
> > managing to get across what I was after I found out the english equivalent
> > of a  finishing nail is a 'panel pin'.
> > I avoid bakeries like the plague, despite the fact that I'm a big fan of
> > baked goods. What to me is just a plain old 'bun', over here it could be
> > called a barmcake, oven bottom cake, muffin, flour cake, roll, or a bap,
> > depending on what county or even what town you're in.
> > And there's all sorts of strange pronunciations of words like vitamin,
> > yoghurt, urinal, inventory, etc. It's a wonder the english can communicate
> > amongst themselves, let alone the rest of the world...
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > CEO, Editor in Chief, Choreographer, Teaboy
> > www.warpedplastic.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org
> >> [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On Behalf Of Martï¿½n
> >> Hï¿½ctor Afflitto Echagï¿½e
> >> Sent: 31 May 2007 01:49
> >> To: World War I Modeling Mailing List
> >> Subject: [WWI] Spell check
> >>
> >>
> >> Dear Guys,
> >>
> >> Let me,introduce myself in this very English conversation.
> >> We,the Spanish speaking people,enjoy your argument deeply
> >> nervous. Before I entered the list,some years ago, we went to
> >> London,my wife is an english teacher,and her nanny was Irish.
> >> also the same some English speaking were difficult to
> >> understand. I didn't have that trouble,I understood nobody.
> >> It's then when my wife started teaching me thedifferences
> >> between the different speakers. Taking this to the Spanish
> >> language; we have an organisation that rules centrally,all
> >> the Spanish speaking world. All the same every country has
> >> its' own central organisation which rules the language in
> >> its' own country. Even though we make great efforts NOT TO
> >> UNDERSTAND each other. Examples: Batata(sweet potatoes),in
> >> Uruguay are called Boniatos.(Sweet Potatoes). In Argentina,
> >> we make a bigger effort;we add lots of words in  Italian and
> >> Idish language ,and any new computer word in english that we
> >> deny to translate. As you can see you're not the only ones.
> >> Long life to letter ï¿½.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Ray Boorman" <fokkereiv at gmail.com>
> >> To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 6:01 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [WWI] Spell check
> >>
> >>
> >> > lol I'll add
> >> > tyre - tire,
> >> > centre-center
> >> > colour - color
> >> > to - two and too
> >> > there - their and they're
> >> > wear - where
> >> > and my favorite
> >> > cheque - check
> >> > I before E except after C..... Except for words that dont
> >> work by that
> >> rule...
> >> >
> >> > No wonder English speakers cant communicate.
> >> > On 5/30/07, ernest thomas <reason108 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...
> >> > >
> >> > > Eye halve a spelling chequer
> >> > > It came with my pea sea
> >> > > It plainly marques four my revue
> >> > > Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
> >> > >
> >> > > Eye strike a key and type a word
> >> > > And weight four it two say
> >> > > Weather eye am wrong oar write
> >> > > It shows me strait a weigh.
> >> > >
> >> > > As soon as a mist ache is maid
> >> > > It nose bee fore two long
> >> > > And eye can put the error rite
> >> > > Its rare lea ever wrong.
> >> > >
> >> > > Eye have run this poem threw it
> >> > > I am shore your pleased two no
> >> > > Its letter perfect awl the weigh
> >> > > My chequer tolled me sew.
> >> > >
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> >> >
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