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Message board > WORD OF THE DAY FOR 6/12/10
WORD OF THE DAY FOR 6/12/10
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WORD OF THE DAY FOR 6/12/10
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I AM enjoying this!
I will announce the winner at midnight (Portuguese time), so there �s still time for you to send your own weirdest definition for PERHENDINANCER. |
6 Dec 2010
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magneto
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Nahhh...You �re all wrong (referring to previous answers: http://www.eslprintables.com/forum/topic.asp?id=24836 and http://www.eslprintables.com/forum/topic.asp?id=24799 ...Tut-tut... ):
PERHENDINANCER is obviously a very bad attempt at a phonetic transcription of "Percent didn �t answer" by someone who clearly a) has no idea about phonetics and b) interprets the sound of the letter "c" as "h" (for some obscure reason)...
I know that because a fellow-student of mine at University made that silly mistake when we were asked to phonetically transcribe a couple of sentences, one of which was "Ninety percent didn �t answer". Her transcription was this: "Nainti perhendinancer."...I think you can guess how her exam paper was rated...Poor thing...
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6 Dec 2010
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