The immovable object - or when push comes to shove!!

[cambrensis]

On one of mt favourite hobby-horses I'm afraid!

I see this in shop windows (one carefully painted one about 2 miles from my house), on posters and worst of all offered for sale here, in eBid!! (Go on! Do a search!!!)

May I point out to the guilty parties that items will NOT be sold if thay are declared to be "stationary"!! Getting them to the post will be very difficult....

I know most here will wince at this; however, if you do not know what I am on about, please check a dictionary!!

Over the years I have been to many a stationEr's, but I have never ever come across a stationAr's. Strange innit?

I'm waiting for somebody to have for sale a "stationery engine"!!!

[Anniemcc2]

I was taught this in primary/junior school - 'A' for automobile and 'E' for envelope

[moonwitch]

I was taught this in primary/junior school - 'A' for automobile and 'E' for envelope

Brilliant! I had never heard that one till just now

[cambrensis]

I used to try all sorts of things to get it into heads...not heard of this one, but it's good!!

[madelaine]

I'd never come across the automobiles bit but in my head I hear "e is for envelopes" every time I write either word.

[HerMajesty]

I ain't herd of enny uv them! Those r vary helpful to remmember.

[madelaine]

My father was a great fan of mnemonics so I have dozens of the things. He was so good at this that he once even taught my physics teacher one which she went on to use in lessons.

[Anniemcc2]

Never eat cake eat salmon sandwiches and remain young

[cambrensis]

Oh gawd! Sounds a bit like some of the nicknames we used for protestant church groups when I was a lad. The Independent Order of Grand Templars (IOGT) we knew as "I Owe Granny Tuppence!" This in turn would be shortened down, so :"Bill's at a Granny meeting tonight!"

Dialect may also help or hinder. For example, we pronounced "their", "they're" and "there" quite differently, one from another. In sequence they were "they-uh", "Theyrr" (rolled "r") and "thair" (rhymed with "hair".) The "they" part of the two above rhymed with "hay". Many of the dialect pronunciations of S.Wales were based on the Elizabethan pronunciations in use when the language crept in.

[HerMajesty]

I am loving this thread.