lovemonster
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Cadoras said:I'm pretty sure that you can get the ruffs later... And well... You might not even need one! Some horses don't need them to enhance their acting ability.... It's really more for the inexperienced ones that are trying to look fancy!
Oh! That's an easy one! *Nodulates*
There are actually several reasons for this.....
You see.... People enjoy making other people look stupid... It's just the way people are.... So they ask someone if they know how to spell a word.... It'll be a word not many people know, to start with.... So they add in letters that the person couldn't possibly guess, in places they shouldn't be.... That persons then thinks they can be really smart and do it to other people... And eventually everyone is using the wrong spelling of the word! Even though it makes no sense... Because they were told that was how to spell it.... *Sighs*
Then! We have the fact that back when these words were being made... People just weren't very smart.... So unfortunately.... The words never made a whole lot of sense... Oh, sure... You'd get some that made sense.... But in general? Kevin the Village Idiot was the one in charge of spelling all new words... And he kinda sucked at spelling.... Poor Kevin..... Oh well! *Huggles you*
There are a few more reasons... But those are a couple of the basic ones.... The other, major reason, which isn't really that surprising.... Is that some people just added in letters to words, to get rid of spare letters when they were playing scrabble... I believe this trend started a very long time ago.... A butcher by the name of Christopher Cribbins had an extra k... And you know how hard they are to get rid of.... So, he made his word, K-N-I-F-E... And his opponent challenged, claiming it wasn't a word... So, he pulled out a large Butcher's Knife and said "This, is a knife, it's real, wanna feel?" And that's why knife is spelled with a K, crazy scrabble playing butchers!
Erm, does that help?
*Smiles and huggles Lovemonster!*
Why, Caddlebear, why can't I find a Shakespearian horse? I can find a Dickensian one. I can even find a Cromwellian one. But Shakespearian ones are very thin on the ground at the moment.
So you're telling me that the silent 'P' in pneumatic is all down to Christopher Cribbins and Scrabble? Is he a close relative of Bernard Cribbins? Yay! *huggles Caddlebear*
Why Caddlebear, why is it that whenever I get the opportunity of a triple word score at Scrabble, I only ever have the letters to make a word of about 4 points...

