Thursday, March 19, 2009

Hello, I speak English.

When co-writing (if that is a word) the previous post, the two native English speakers told me that there is no such word as gossiper in the English language. It is called a gossip, they said, and as a simple Norwegian who is learning new words in English every day, who am I to argue?

I could however not take their word for it (after all they both have serious bilingual/trilingual-issues), so I went home and secretly checked the Oxford dictionary.

Here is what i found:



Did I hear someone say snorkendorken?

1 comment:

  1. Generally speaking, you should not take English advice from someone that uses the word "thinger" in regular conversation.

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