Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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To distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O. (lemm.ee)

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w(uh)man to w(ih)men

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

English phonetics suck more than any other language ever spoke or tried to learn

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That’s cuz English is a bully that beats up all the other languages and steals their words

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nah fam.. the leader took the lead, then he lead while wearing lead. This is pure English, no loanwords.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.