A night of sleep wasted.

[Forty Rod]

I woke up a bit after 3:00 AM to day and before I went back to sleep somewhere after 6:00 I wrestled with a problem.  Maybe someone out there can help me.

ash
bash
brash
cash
clash
crash
dash
flash
gash
gnash
hash
lash
mash
rash
sash
slash
smash
splash
stash
trash

all have an a sound that rhymes with the a in cannon and battle.

So why does wash have an a sound that rhymes with bottle and waddle?

I gotta get some sleep tonight.

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Leave it to you to ponder the the deeper mysteries of life, 40

[Lucky Irish Tom]

It rhymes with squash too Forty, mebbe that's cuz if ya sqash somethin an git it on yer clothes then ya gotta wash em!

[Forty Rod]

I hate when my mind gets stuck on some trivial crap like that and won't shut down so I can sleep.  I almost wish I hadn't given up drinking...but I ain't going back there.

[Texas Lawdog]

Forty, That's a lot of information to pass through my feeble mind this morning. I didn't get much sleep last night either. I always put on some war movies on my 5 disc DVD player and that puts me right to sleep.

[Major 2]

IT'S Enghish...don't need no stinkin reason  .... RE -son a is silent 

[litl rooster]

IT'S Enghish...don't need no stinkin reason  .... RE -son a is silent  

ah-men!








me thinks Forty Rod, makes these post just to stir the pot some....

[Leo Tanner]

What is the definition of the word to end the puzzle?  What is the point?  Illuminate us on the end game an mebbe help will come. 
Or we'll  just turn this thead into the usual firey pit.

Or try this...

Vash

Vash may refer to:

•"VASH", an acronym for a class of high performance submersible marine vehicles: Variable Attitude Submersible Hydrofoil, first examples are referred to as "Bionic Dolphins". Patented in 1992 by Thomas Rowe; U.S. pat.5237952. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_dolphin
•Vash (Star Trek), a corrupt archaeologist on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
•Vash the Stampede, the main character in the anime Trigun
•Vash, one of the younger gods in David Eddings' The Dreamers (book series)
•vash (ваш), the plural form of "yours" in Bulgarian, Russian and other languages

Geez, I gotta do everthin around here.

[Forty Rod]

The point is that there ain't no point...and no end until my mind gets focusing on something else.

[litl rooster]

what was that just run thru here?

[Daniel Nighteyes]

The point is that there ain't no point...and no end until my mind gets focusing on something else.

Look, a SQUIRREL!!!!!

[Leo Tanner]

Look, a SQUIRREL!!!!!

The point is that there ain't no point...and no end until my mind gets focusing on something else.

If there aint no point what is your mind tryin ta figger out.  All we know is ya got a list a words that ryme alphabeticly but not oll foneticaly   If some president hadn't written oll korrect nobody would be sayin OK er okey dokey these days.

[Daniel Nighteyes]

If some president hadn't written oll korrect nobody would be sayin OK er okey dokey these days.

Actually -- and all kidding aside -- there is good evidence that "O.K." comes from the Choctaw exclamation hoke! (pronounced ho-KAY), meaning good or very good.  Before he became President, Andrew Jackson spent many years in command of forces in the Southeast.  The Choctaw were consistent allies,particularly against the Creek Nation and later the British.  Ol' Hick'ry spent a lot of time with Chief Moshulatubbee. Hoke! was one of  Moshulatubbee's favorite expressions, particularly when he was thinking, pleased or happy.  Jackson also began using the word, although he pronounced it as "okay!"

When Jackson became President, he took the word with him to Washington, and from there it entered common English usage.

We now return you to our regularly-scheduled foolishness.

[Leo Tanner]

The Army also used it for "zero killed" when retuning from a mission.  Likewise they would say 3 K or what not.

[Major 2]

Actually -- and all kidding aside -- there is good evidence that "O.K." comes from the Choctaw exclamation hoke! (pronounced ho-KAY), meaning good or very good.  Before he became President, Andrew Jackson spent many years in command of forces in the Southeast.  The Choctaw were consistent allies,particularly against the Creek Nation and later the British.  Ol' Hick'ry spent a lot of time with Chief Moshulatubbee. Hoke! was one of  Moshulatubbee's favorite expressions, particularly when he was thinking, pleased or happy.  Jackson also began using the word, although he pronounced it as "okay!"

When Jackson became President, he took the word with him to Washington, and from there it entered common English usage.

We now return you to our regularly-scheduled foolishness.

A funny ( to me ) little aside , with due respect 40Rod...I had a roll in a film once where I had to ad-lib some lines..It was Historical piece set in the Seminole War.
I used "OK" later thinking I had use non period verbage , I cringed.  Research showed it was period and somewhat popular to utter " OK " as I had  

[Delmonico]

What is the definition of the word to end the puzzle?  What is the point?  Illuminate us on the end game an mebbe help will come. 
Or we'll  just turn this thead into the usual firey pit.

Or try this...

Vash

Vash may refer to:

•"VASH", an acronym for a class of high performance submersible marine vehicles: Variable Attitude Submersible Hydrofoil, first examples are referred to as "Bionic Dolphins". Patented in 1992 by Thomas Rowe; U.S. pat.5237952. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bionic_dolphin
•Vash (Star Trek), a corrupt archaeologist on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
•Vash the Stampede, the main character in the anime Trigun
•Vash, one of the younger gods in David Eddings' The Dreamers (book series)
•vash (ваш), the plural form of "yours" in Bulgarian, Russian and other languages

Geez, I gotta do everthin around here.

And like you always do you messed it up big time and I have to fix yer mess.

Vash

Vash is vhat Slim and other people in Visconsion do vith their clothes vhen they is dirty. 

[Silver Creek Slim]

And like you always do you messed it up big time and I have to fix yer mess.

Vash

Vash is vhat Slim and other people in Visconsion do vith their clothes vhen they is dirty. 

Not all of us, just the Scandahuvians. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

Not all of us, just the Scandahuvians. 

Slim

But that is the clue to 40's problem, see every dang group of folks who wandered here, has added their words to the language, so it's a mixed up mongrel language.  Plus folks were doin' that before the English brought the language to America.

[J.D. Yellowhammer]

Plus folks were doin' that before the English brought the language to America.

Excuse me, but many of the early settlers (such as my own great-great-etc-grandpap) were Irish (and Scotch Scots), not english.  And the english had outlawed Gaelic, so they were forced to speak this language.
And it's still used pretty much as it was when them folks got here, and closer in accent, up in the hills of Tenn.
So if you want purity in our native language, come to the South!

[Delmonico]

But JD wern't the first English settlers so called Gentleman?  They found out the cound not make it on their own so they called up the others to do the work they wouldn't do.   

"course in a few years the folks showed up in Plymouth and they talk way different up there.  Course there were French and Spanish he before the English and added their words in time.   "course there was no hope, folks kept showing up and adding words or were drug here in chains and added their words.  Some of them brought a plant that gets sticky and slimy when cooked, next thing you know they are callin' clay types that get real sticky and slimy, gumbo.  Guess they could have called that clay okra.