Saturday

If only there were an exam in procrastination, I would get 100%! I have an exam on tuesday which I know practically nothing for (started revising yesterday) and I'm still sitting here messing around on the internet!
Don't even want to write anything specific on here, it's just another thing to do to put off revision! Although I have actually found an interesting bit of typology, yay!
Updating my last post, I found out it should be i's as apparently plurals of letters always have an apostrophe. I would like to thank my dutch english tutor for that information!

How many eyes?!

I was reading some revision notes the other day when I came across the word indivisibility. I noticed the large number of eyes it contained (writing it like that cos I don't know if it should be i's or just is, and I don't want to get it wrong since I'm a language student as that would just make me look bad) I did a bit of research on it and found out it is actually the shortest english word with 6 eyes, wow! I also found this amazing website (well it's amazing if you're a language geek) :

http://plex.us/archives/word.html

It has some amazing facts, such as

AMBIDEXTROUSLY is the longest word in common use with no letter appearing more than once.
ONE THOUSAND contains the letter A, but none of the words from one to nine hundred ninety-nine has an A.

It is claimed that -OUGH can be pronounced 9 different ways in the following sentence:

A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.

However, David Olsen says that slough does not provide a unique pronunciation for -ough, but that HOUGH (pronounced hock) is a Scottish word, meaning the ankle joint of a horse, cow, or foul, or to hamstring, or it is an obsolete British word meaning to clear the throat. Olsen says that in order for the sentence to have 9 different ways of pronouncing -ough, it could be rewritten as:

A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed, houghed, and hiccoughed.

Ted Clarke says there are 10 pronunciations for OUGH. He adds LOUGH, the Irish form of loch.

Check out the site for more fascinating facts!

Culinary delights

Everyone knows that eating is something I do quite a lot of, and I can get quite excited about food, but meal times have been even more exciting the last couple of days! Last night was a key moment in my life: after almost 2 years of living in Manchester I finally went out for a curry in Rusholme! Yay! It was cool, and I'm so glad I decided to stop being a wimp and try food I always thought I didn't like! Help, too many exclamation marks, but I guess I'm just an exclamative person (is that a word?! Oh well, it is now!) And I just don't do serious...but I will try
Tonight for dinner I had potatoes, meatballs, salad and...rhubarb&strawberries! (yes, all mixed together) Rhubarb is another one of those things I always claimed I didn't like, and I would certainly never have eaten it with savoury stuff, but it was so good! Another fantastic thought made by the dutch, well done! Foe pudding we had more rhubarb and strawberries, with ice-cream and custard, mmmmmmmmmmmmm :D there was meant to be jelly with it too...but silly me messed it up :( I really don't know how it is possible to go wrong with jelly, it's the easiest thing in the world to make, but for some reason I forgot to put cold water in it!! Duh! So it might be set sometime next week if anyone fancies any
I may be lacking jelly-making skills, but I impressed myself with my dutch skills today, I managed to form a coherent sentence form random things I know, yay! I translated 'lovely weather for ducks', such a useful phrase!
Ooh and I had a good exam today! It was french listening, and I was expecting it to be abslolutely rubbish since I seem to have to ability to listen (to french anyway) but it was actually surprisingly easy, the first bit was so so easy I felt like I was back in primary school, not that you do phonetic transcription of french in primary school, but if you did it would be that easy.
Now I need to sleep and get up early to revise :( but there's light at the end of the tunnel, in the form of blackpool and other things such as karaoke, football, bbq which we put in our list of things to do after exams, bring on june 7th!!

Paperclip

Grr!!! Feeling stressed and angry, due to the annoying stupid little paperclip on word!! It is so so stupid and I wish it would just go jump off a cliff, and stop bothering me!! I was writing something earlier and it tried to tell me I was writing a letter when I wasn't! So it really doesn't have a clue what it's on about and is no help at all, I'm sure no-one appreciates it! Me and Alex are starting the "Club of rebels against the paperclip", if anyone wants to join let me know!!

My new favourite sweets

The other week I was watching the news and heard about some new sweets asda had brought out called "whatevers". They're basically like love hearts but have speech bubbles on them and say things such as "whatever", "bothered", "init", "you what", and "minger"!! So good, much better than the stupid things love hearts say! So anyway, we made a trip to asda yesterday to buy bbq food so I picked up a few packets, they're so cool!!!

Tonight and other things

Oops, just dropped a load of stuff on the floor...
anyway, argh I'm so hyper!!! this is bad, I should be sleeping! had a cool night though, got a certificate!!! to certify that I am a peer mentor, yay! We got free food and cake and (the best thing of all, yes, even better than free food and cake) a free phone torch thing!!! that you stick to you phone, it's so cool!!! So it was well worth sitting through 2 hours of boringness, watching people go up to get certificates and listen to people do speeches about nothing! then we went to the union and I was very hyper but I was allowed and then we walked home and my feet hurt from blisters but I don't care cos it's been so nice and warm and I haven't worn a jumper all day, yay! And we're having a bbq tomorrow, woo and now I really am rambling, wonder how long I can keep this up for, writing about absolutely nothing, probably quite a while knowing me cos this is one of my talents, rambling on about nothing...
ooh I've had 3 exams now, only 9 more to go! quarter of the way there...woo! 2 of them were really ribbish but one was good so it's not all bad, and I got a seen exam paper already for my last exam on june 7th, it's gonna be so much fun preparing for it! and I actually mean that, I know i'm a geek but I like phonology, it's cool, ooh and in final year me and Helen are going to be peer mentor co-ordinators and we're gonna do a fantastic job! such an excellent team we will be, and then we can get another certificate, yeah! see everything is related to something...I'm not really jsut rambling, everything is related ooh and I rode Helen's bike today, it was so much fun!! Hadn't ridden a bike in years, but I can still do it! so it really is true what they say, you never forget how to ride a bike! I wanna get one now, I miss my bike!! This summer, I will go on lots of bike rides! oh and I did a roly poly thing over the bar tonight, another thing I haven't done since being a lot smaller (ok maybe I should say a lot younger cos i haven't really grown since I was about 10. seriously, when i was at home over easter, I tried on my bridesmaid dress that I had when I was 10 and I could still get in it! it was only about 2 inches 2 short!) but anyway, yeah I was scared for ages that i would hit my head on the floor but i didn't and it was fun! I don't wanna turn 20!! 2 months on monday, urgh! :( for once in my life I'm not looking forward to my birthday
anyway i really should stop rambling soon and try sleep, i was planning on being in uni early tomorrow to print off work before computers get taken, dunno if that will happen now, but oh well...argh I really can't type! So, goodnight!!