English is weird

Anonymouse@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world – 114 points –

I got hung up on contractions this morning regarding the word "you've". Normally, I'd say "you've got a problem", which expands to "you have got a problem", which isn't wrong, but I normally wouldn't say. Not contracting, I'd say "you have a problem", so then should I just say "you've a problem"? That sounds weird in my head. Is this just a US English problem?

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‘Bough’ and ‘bow’ are pronounced the same

Except, of course, when "bow" is pronounced "bow" instead.

I shot the boughs with my bow and then gave a bow to my beau!

The last one should be spelled beau if you mean your special guy.