[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by MaRuDolph

And yet we all can seem to spell alcohol correctly each time despite our differing nationalities and dialects...



Even changing the spelling of last names in America still doesn't fix the pronounciation problem. My last name is spelled differently than the original German, sure, but then the pronounciation is even different than how it is spelled out in both US English and German... I remember someone saying English is harder to learn because so much of our spelling and pronounciation often needs to be memorized and doesn't follow a convention... and that's certainly true for American English, especially names.

OK but we're talking about the Irish holiday St. Patrick's Day, there's really no confusion. St Patty's Day is very very annoying to any Irish person.

[Parumpapapump]

English lightweights.

[MaRuDolph]

Originally Posted by ChristmasNeeve

OK but we're talking about the Irish holiday St. Patrick's Day, there's really no confusion. St Patty's Day is very very annoying to any Irish person.

Ok. I am not disagreeing with any of that.

[Cranbred Goose]

Originally Posted by Christmas Dynamo

Sorry, what?

You keep telling yourself that. In the meantime I’ll wait for you to pull out 1 statistic listing even a single direct death from cannabis. Everything from you until then is just white noise.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by MaRuDolph

Ok. I am not disagreeing with any of that.

Sorry that sounded a bit snappy

[bots]

Not all countries collect stats in the same way. I would have thought the reporting of covid cases around the world would have educated everyone on how false statistics are

[MaRuDolph]

Originally Posted by ChristmasNeeve

Sorry that sounded a bit snappy

It's not meant to be. I am not trying to be argumentative, which it started to seem to be coming across that way, so I conceded to your main point. But I think even an explanation would've sounded that way so kept it simple. It doesn't come across in text so I apologize if it sounded rude.

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by MaRuDolph

It's not meant to be. I am not trying to be argumentative, which it started to seem to be coming across that way, so I conceded to your main point. But I think even an explanation would've sounded that way so kept it simple. It doesn't come across in text so I apologize if it sounded rude.

No I meant I sounded snappy and was saying sorry

[Quantum Bauble]

Originally Posted by ChristmasNeeve

OK but we're talking about the Irish holiday St. Patrick's Day, there's really no confusion. St Patty's Day is very very annoying to any Irish person.

I'm still convinced the confusion is in pronunciation, and that when Americans say "St Pattys" it will sound identical to them saying "Paddy", and they just assume it's spelled "Patty" .

[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by Quantum Bauble

I'm still convinced the confusion is in pronunciation, and that when Americans say "St Pattys" it will sound identical to them saying "Paddy", and they just assume it's spelled "Patty" .

Nah I don't think so, they're shortening Patrick to Patty, Paddy's Day is from Là 'le Padraig