I know they're controversial but I love em
Posted Feb 11, 2022, 4:23 PM UTC
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Whomst is the superiorest
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Whom, whomer, whomst.
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Whoms, whomed, will whom.
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Whom Whomst Whometh Whomen
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Whomst'dve thought that?!
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whomst’dve’n’t
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Whomstever
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whomst'd've'ly'yaint'nt'ed'ies's'y'es'nt'ed's'y'es'nt't're'in
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You coulda squoze in "yote"
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Not forgetting the past participle "yotten"
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squizen*
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Those are some words there
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anyhoo looks like a dutch word
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It looks like an English word!
(There's like no words that end in -oo in Dutch: shampoo, tattoo, that's about it. Nor do they tend to have -y- a lot.)
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Anijhoe
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Waterloo
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Voodoo
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Is het niet Voedoe
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That's a Walloon place name though. It's like using 'Qatar' as an example that English words don't always have a u after a q
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Did you know Belgium used to be Dutch?
From Middle Dutch, composed of water (water, watery) + loo (forest, clearing in a forest, marsh, bog)
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Anyhoe looks like your mom
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even a netherite hoe?, if yes, that's nice, she's very durable
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Is twote a past tense of tweet? I haven’t seen that one yet!
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clearly it should be twet, by analogy to meet/met
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I like it. Counterexample though: speak/spoke
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Tweak / twoke
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Me noother
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As it is with the true plurals:
- Goose – geese, therefore, moose – meese
- Mouse – mice, therefore, house – hice
- Man – men, therefore, pan – pen
- That – those, therefore, hat – hose
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• Spouse – spice 😛
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• boot - beet
• grouse - grice
• boose - beese
• can - cen
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anywho? jocular?
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Also just a dialectical variation of course, but some dictionaries do list it as "humorous" so that's what I'm going off.
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Whealp
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I say coinkydink
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fifth, forth, threeth, twooth, oneth...
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aww this is adorbs<3
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dare i say it’s amazeballs
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really it’s cray-cray how amazeballs it is
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Let us not forget whomst'd'ves
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What's twote?
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Past participle of tweet
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NOOO WHY NOT HAVE IT BE PAST TENSE???
TWEET, TWOTE, TWITTEN!!! DAMNIT.
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Ah, do it's pronounced like "twoat"? I was thinking it'd be pronounced "toot", like it had something to do with the number two.
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Twote?
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Past participle of tweet
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Ah that’s great haha
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Why did somebody thunkened this
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#Twitten
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The way "coinkidink" is spelled I thought it would be pronounced /kojŋ.ki.dɪŋk/
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what if whom'st was an abbreviation of who must
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Reminds me of the "He found me crying, he crew too, we both crode" copypasta
singular preterite vs plural preterite different ablaut grade revival!
Was literally thinking about that just before logging into le epic reddit.
I have kridden
We have coroded