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Reading read wrong (thumbsnap.com)
submitted 1 year ago by willya@lemmyf.uk to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] snooggums@kbin.social 58 points 1 year ago

Read like lead, not read like lead.

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd say English is broken but that implies it was working at some point

[–] SSX@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Police police police police police police police police

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

For those that haven't tried. See how far you can get reading this poem out loud...

The Chaos

[–] willya@lemmyf.uk 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What in the hell

[–] profoundninja@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

I got to head and read it as head and gave up..

[–] quigat@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's up with made/bade? I pronounce those the same way.

[–] Veltoss@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It's a 100 year old poem, I'm guessing it was pronounced different in that area at the time.

[–] Rehwyn@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bade is the past tense of "bid" and is technically pronounced the same as "bad". Link: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/bade

Essentially, the pronunciation follows the same pattern as words like "sit - sat", but the spelling pattern follows a different Old English pattern.

[–] chandz05@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Ha that is great! Like a maze for your mind and mouth. However that poem is now 100 years old, so I did notice some spelling and pronunciation errors :)

[–] CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About halfway through I got a headache and had to lay down

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It is a particularly masochistic poem to read aloud. 😁

[–] tpihkal@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I had no trouble reading this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I hear that buffalo have the same problem.

[–] Noit@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a problem for people from Reading (UK).

[–] UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Or Reading, Pennsylvania

[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Let's just start using red like we do for the past tense of lead.

[–] eluvatar@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Red vs reed

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I vote on readed. Yes, it looks wrong now, but give it a few days

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"There are my red books"

"Some of them look quite blue to me"

[–] hanni@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

leaded?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Welcome to English, where everything is made up and the rules and spelling mean nothing.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

ADHD reading

[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

TIHI