Words that confuses me...

• a_splash

  13 Sep 05, 13:44

  enquiry or inquiry??
• 105090

  13 Sep 05, 13:53

  Originally posted by shinta:

  Stationary/stationery
  advice/advise
  practice/practise
  principle/principal
  
  ?

  princiPAL > treat ur school head as your "pal"
  
  stationary > A for Aeroplane
• ^spidee^

  13 Sep 05, 13:55

  Originally posted by a_splash:

  enquiry or inquiry??

  they are very similar... inquiry is used mainly for investigations, while enquiry is merely asking questions...
• c0ol_blu3z

  13 Sep 05, 14:07

  Originally posted by shinta:

  Stationary/stationery
  advice/advise
  practice/practise
  principle/principal
  
  anymore that u guys wanna add on?
  
  what's the diff between these words?

  salary , celery
• kaobeikaobu

  13 Sep 05, 14:09

  medicine is two syllables...any word in between two vowels...u forgo the second vowel...like business...nt bu si ness...
  
  another word tt ppl pronounced wrongly most of the time is,yes, 'pronounce'
  
  nt 'pro-now'sed'...but 'pro nun'sed'..
  
  
• zozo

  13 Sep 05, 14:11

  Originally posted by kaobeikaobu:

  medicine is two syllables...any word in between two vowels...u forgo the second vowel...like business...nt bu si ness...
  
  another word tt ppl pronounced wrongly most of the time is,yes, 'pronounce'
  
  nt 'pro-now'sed'...but 'pro nun'sed'..
  
  

  Waa...enlightenment! What is a vowel har? Forgot liao.
• kaobeikaobu

  13 Sep 05, 14:13

  Originally posted by zozo:

  Waa...enlightenment! What is a vowel har? Forgot liao.

  aeiou
• a_splash

  13 Sep 05, 14:20

  Originally posted by kaobeikaobu:

  medicine is two syllables...any word in between two vowels...u forgo the second vowel...like business...nt bu si ness...
  
  another word tt ppl pronounced wrongly most of the time is,yes, 'pronounce'
  
  nt 'pro-now'sed'...but 'pro nun'sed'..
  
  

  its me di sen leh...as wat dragg has linked here
  
  http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/pronounce?id=M0191800&path=prons/M0191800.wav
  
  maybe one is US one is Uk pronun leh....
• a_splash

  13 Sep 05, 14:21

  Originally posted by ^spidee^:

  they are very similar... inquiry is used mainly for investigations, while enquiry is merely asking questions...

  thank u!
  
  i also found out in US, both used the same, but not in british....
  
  inquiry as in public inquiry...
  
  enquiry...as in product enquiry?
  
  
• ^spidee^

  13 Sep 05, 14:31

  Originally posted by a_splash:

  thank u!
  
  i also found out in US, both used the same, but not in british....
  
  inquiry as in public inquiry...
  
  enquiry...as in product enquiry?
  
  

  yea, i looked up dictionary.com and it said they are actually the same... so maybe follow british way bah...
• kaobeikaobu

  13 Sep 05, 14:39

  Originally posted by a_splash:

  its me di sen leh...as wat dragg has linked here
  
  http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/pronounce?id=M0191800&path=prons/M0191800.wav
  
  maybe one is US one is Uk pronun leh....

  nt sure abt that..maybe..
  to me, it makes sense...
  
  i guess the real language is swahili...
• stellazio

  13 Sep 05, 15:01

  How come this thread in club30 ar?Who needs the shifu help??