More word play

Explain, please, cos ah dunt naw wot yer on abart :)

My brain isn't in gear yet ... but I have hopes it will get there before the day is out!

I think I am going blind, as well as senile!

I never even noticed it :)

that people don't actually read and digest what is posted. No offence Shirley, I also thought OGA had finally lost it and joined the rest of us.

that in olden times you were presumably killed by the same person who then took care of your estate :)

I was tempted to leave it given the irony but have fixed the typo :-)

I love the complaint / compliant comparison - I'm going to have to think about other similar examples as it's a fun observation!

With regards to the pronunciation question, however, there may be a slightly more boring answer. Most words (there are, as ever, irritating exceptions) are pronounced in a way the provides the speaker's vocal system with the least amount of resistance. This is why words like "yeah" grew out of "yes" as we lazy-tongued speakers found that meaning could still be communicated without having to go to the effort of producing the final sound. For "executor" it follows the standard stress patter found in English where a weak first sound is followed by a stronger syllable. It's simply "easier" to say it this way than focus on producing a stressed syllable at the start.

OGA, if you enjoy word games, I have a puzzle that drove everyone in my class mad and still keeps me awake some nights. Try to think of two "true" synonyms - totally different words that mean exactly the same thing. After 5 years, all I can come up with are "gorse" and "furze" and they're hardly common words!

could have a lot of fun with currants. What was that sentence where you moved the comma to create 3 or 4 different meanings?

I've managed to wake up a tiny part of my brain ... and I spotted the post that kicked this off with the 'compliant' being typed instead of 'complaint'.

ps. I hope you don't start inspecting all my posts because I seem to specialise in 'putting my foot in it', and I am fairly good at malapropisms, so you may find a few of those!

Henry .. your word game will keep me occupied all day! Once someone sets me off on a challenge that interests me, then I can't think about anything else for ages!!!! :(   Can I send you the bill for someone to do my work for me while I am playing????

centre and middle. I know I'm goig to get rapped on this one. Device and thingamejig.

Got it this time - missed it on the first pass through. For all my geeking out over language, I'm a terrible proof-reader!

Shame on you OGA!!!!!!!!!

I am a Yorkshire lass, and proud of it! How dare you say I am like a Lancastrian! I'll stick with Nora Batty, thanks ;)

The War of the Roses??????

The White Rose of York v the Red Rose of Lancaster?

Not that we hold grudges or live in the past (much!) .. but there is still a bit of competition between Yorkshire & Lancashire. I don't know why .. it's just something that's accepted as normal, for some reason!

But Yorkshire folk are very loyal to Yorkshire. Who wouldn't be? It is a glorious part of the country  :)

but wasn't Lancashire and Yorkshire only a small part of the war. Anyway I prefered Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner being refereed by Dany De Vito.

Neither of us were there, so we have to rely on history being accurately documented. I found the following, which may be true, maybe not!

The White Rose was the symbol of Yorkist supporters who opposed the rival House of Lancaster, whose symbol was the Red Rose of Lancaster. The opposition of the two parties, symbolised by the red and white roses gave the wars their name - the Wars of the Roses. The Wars of the Roses ended with King Henry VII who started the Tudor dynasty and symbolically united the White and Red Roses to create the Tudor Rose.  

Actually your toffee men are in the County Palatine of Lancaster, whereas Cheshire is part of the County Palatine of Chester. Don't you know your eleventh centry political geography?

You're not entirely correct on 21st century political geography either !

As I look out of the office window, (and it's just turned high tide) across the river I see "the dark side", Birkenhead, Wallasey etc.. Hardly posh and definitely not Cheshire!

Have you been to Liverpool lately? Perhaps you should come up for a weekend - it's a great place to visit! You could always tie it in with watching your boys in blue humiliated at Anfield (and I think that will be the penultimate game of the season - 5th May). And you might learn something about the North West.

But you may have a little difficulty with some of the pronunciation! (That was me trying to bring in some kind of relevance to the original posting!)

last night? Yes I'm a bit partial to vintage taylors.

@ShirleyM. Why is there a Yorky bar but no Lancy bar (please no puns) Pubs called Yorkshire grey but no Lancashire red. A Yorkshire terrier but not a lancashire doberman (not lassies). etc. etc.

John, I can't help you much with pub names ... but for dogs......

.... there's the Yorkshire terrier, and the Lancashire heeler, but naturally, Yorkies are more popular than heelers which is why everbody knows about Yorkies, but not heelers.

I can't explain why we don't have a Lancy bar ... maybe the Lancs people are even tighter than the Yorks people ????

Wooooo Yorkshire!

to Spur you on OGA and no doubt you eat them in a Palace or one of the Queens Parks. Still as long as you don't get Hammered.