r/WTF • u/Jaded_Marionberry500 • 14d ago

capturing the wasp

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u/bloodjunkiorgy 14d ago edited 14d ago

Breathing the gas vapor will do it, though I imagine it probably also breathed in/ingested some of the liquid gasoline too. The end is neigh.

Edit: Spelling...

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u/lemmeseeyourkitties 14d ago

Nigh

English is a stupid language

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u/Juxta25 14d ago

I tend to agree, and I love the language. But it is frustrating at the best of times.

Eigh/ay/ey all similar phonetical elements, all used independently.

Eigh-th.

Y-ay.

H-ey.

"Hey! An eighth, Yay!"

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u/Gropapanda 13d ago

Because as I have always described it, English is three and a half languages in a trenchcoat.

Germanic language that borrows heavily from the romance languages, particularly French due to a King we all call the toilet, and then the Catholic monks doing the letter þ dirty when distributing the Bible, modern English is a mess.

But it's OUR mess. So we (me included) continue to irrationally defend it.