h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Are 'monkey nuts' peanuts, Prof?

And this is from Scandinavia.

http://www.youtube.com/shorts/I10YSu_C7lc

Monkey Nuts = Peanuts in Shells (over here)

Okay, then! We don't call them that. They are sometimes called 'goobers', though. (Have been since the 1850s or so.)

Oh! I just looked it up and 'goober' is from a word in the Kikongo language. (We sometimes get our Southern food words from African languages.)

"english language! to American version

= Boy! There are many differences

BUT! I truly love how you spell some words as they sound

IE: ours "colour" to yours' "color" etc

PS! I got a rap (ruler) across my knuckles by "my" english teacher at school years ago I got a "bad mark" on a spelling BUT! Because I said THAT'S how American#s spell it! -

That was Noah Webster. Dictionaries were a new idea then - he made the first American one.

And he didn't like silent letters.

Of course, what with the Civil War coming after that, when I was a kid, the teacher said we could spell any way we liked, so I mostly used English spelling...UNTIL we moved to Pittsburgh - and I had to use American spelling.

At least I know both - which is good for the .

"silent letters" That's the one

It was once said ? That Chinese was the hardest language to learn ?

Wrong! English is the hardest! Because "we" many meanings etc for words

"we're/were/where" etc etc - I'm glad that I mainly write/speak.

Yorkshire!Sod any other language in the world!!

Teachers claiming: 'Spell any way you like.' can expect to be challenged. My brother had one like that for Religion. His class really tried to write any word other than normal.

My Religion teacher on the other hand, was really picky. She got pretty angry at me when I came to ask her what she wrote in my notebook. Apparently she tried to convey that she couldn't read my handwriting. The feeling was mutual.

My Dad had to write her a letter to defuse the situation and argue that I should be graded on what I wrote, not how.

People have complained about my handwriting in a number of languages. My Yiddish teacher told me I really needed to work on it. Yiddish uses the Hebrew alphabet.

To my astonishment, there was one language where my handwriting got compliments - GREEK.

I love keyboards.

Sod written language

I was once shown a middle finger, with the rest clenched

I replied! With 2 fingers in a V sign and said! In Yorkshire, we can afford 2 fingers and

Happened twice! Once in england and t'other in Los Angeles


"we" have a saying DON'T try and teach your mother to suck eggs!!!