Words that just look strange

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:13 pm 0

I'm writing some Java coursework here, modelling cars travelling down a series of roads.

All of a sudden, I can't read the word 'vehicle'. I've been writing it for about five hours straight now, and it doesn't mean anything to me.

Weird, huh?

Orava · Post by **Orava** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 5:35 pm 0

Kamineko wrote:I'm writing some Java coursework here, modelling cars travelling down a series of roads.

All of a sudden, I can't read the word 'vehicle'. I've been writing it for about five hours straight now, and it doesn't mean anything to me.

Weird, huh?

I always cracks me up when I hear a southern US person pronouncing it.

defsdoor · Post by **defsdoor** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:23 pm 0

I get that quite often - with words like canal and went.

Both look perfectly ok to me at the moment but at times I just cannot figure them out. Bizarre.

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:24 pm 0

It's the repetition that does it. Sort of makes it so usual, you stop seeing it as a word anymore.

TDM · Post by **TDM** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 6:25 pm 0

"Queue" seems like a pretty damn weird word if you ask me.

c64audio · Post by **c64audio** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:25 pm 0

TDM wrote:"Queue" seems like a pretty damn weird word if you ask me.

Five times as long as it needs to be...

Wibble · Post by **Wibble** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:28 pm 0

Titnush!

SimonB · Post by **SimonB** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:30 pm 0

c64audio wrote:
TDM wrote:"Queue" seems like a pretty damn weird word if you ask me.
Five times as long as it needs to be...

That'll be because of all the Christmas shoppers.

ddraig · Post by **ddraig** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:15 pm 0

Orava wrote:
Kamineko wrote:I'm writing some Java coursework here, modelling cars travelling down a series of roads.

All of a sudden, I can't read the word 'vehicle'. I've been writing it for about five hours straight now, and it doesn't mean anything to me.

Weird, huh?
I always cracks me up when I hear a southern US person pronouncing it.

howd you mean? like this: 'veee-hick-cull' ?

Bog · Post by **Bog** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:30 pm 0

"Choir" is quite (aha) a good one.

Conscience has a funky sh noise, but there' always "Ghoti", pronounced "fish" - the "gh" from "Enough", the "o" from "Women" and the "ti" from "patience".

Markie · Post by **Markie** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:32 pm 0

Bog wrote:"Choir" is quite (aha) a good one.

Conscience has a funky sh noise, but there' always "Ghoti", pronounced "fish" - the "gh" from "Enough", the "o" from "Women" and the "ti" from "patience".

christ, I just thought Plinth was sounding really odd too ...

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:36 pm 0

Kamineko wrote:I'm writing some Java coursework here, modelling cars travelling down a series of roads.

All of a sudden, I can't read the word 'vehicle'. I've been writing it for about five hours straight now, and it doesn't mean anything to me.

Weird, huh?

Vehicle is a weird word.

I was making a car database and mistyped vehicle multiple times in 3 different ways during the process.

zip accident · Post by **zip accident** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:56 pm 0

In the pronunciation stakes, what about "route", the way to a place, and "rout", a severe military defeat, involving soldiers running away from the enemy.

the2bears · Post by **the2bears** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:20 pm 0

"tennis" bothered me a few years back, looked and looked at it and it just seemed wrong.

Bill

Yak · Post by **Yak** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:23 pm 0

zip accident wrote:In the pronunciation stakes, what about "route", the way to a place, and "rout", a severe military defeat, involving soldiers running away from the enemy.

The Yanks pronounce those two the same, which is bloody funny when you hear it.

YakYak

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