# Answer **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [February 7, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278 "2004-02-07T04:45:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DariusMonsef](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@DariusMonsef](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DariusMonsef)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/1 "2004-02-07T04:45:14Z")
Why is there a W in Answer?? I swear I want to know what two pot heads came up with English. Dude… Answer… huhuhu swer… Answer… yeah put a W in it… hehehhe huhuh ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 4:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/2 "2004-02-07T04:46:59Z")
lol… never thought of that, but what pot are you smoking to think this up? lol 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 4:47am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/3 "2004-02-07T04:47:29Z")
what abt plumber? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/4 "2004-02-07T04:52:27Z")
I was trying to send my girlfriend a text message and looked at the word after I typed it and thought wt? so I went and looked it up. It still looks funny now. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/5 "2004-02-07T05:08:25Z")
> \*Originally posted by [minimalistik.] \* > \*\*what abt plumber? \*\* easy. For the same reason a Plumbob is the lead weight at the end of a string, plumbers got their name, because they used lead pipes. also why chemical sign is PB… Rev ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 5:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/6 "2004-02-07T05:27:47Z")
[Middle English answere, from Old English andswaru. See swer- in Indo-European Roots.] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/7 "2004-02-07T09:56:05Z")
I never understood the “psy” words. Why does the p need to be there? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 10:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/8 "2004-02-07T10:17:26Z")
you can still hear a very tiny weeny ‘p’ in psychologist… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/9 "2004-02-07T16:46:47Z")
Basically, even though they can’t themselves be heard, they modify who the other letters around them sound… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 4:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/10 "2004-02-07T16:54:21Z")
Having double consonants identifies certain stressed syllables. It’s the same reason why there are two 's’s in ‘dessert’ and only one in ‘desert’, an example you most likely wouldn’t think of as odd. Also some words (if not most) are derived from ancient languages such as Latin or greek, which is why when you look up words, you’ll usually find a few Latin origins. If ‘plumber’ didn’t have that b in it, then you would pronounce it as “plumer” or “ploomer” (someone who feathers something?). But you want an oddly spelled word? Try Onomatopoeia (pronounced ‘onamonapeeya’). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/11 "2004-02-07T17:48:08Z")
i know thats greek 😉 something to do with name. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2004, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/12 "2004-02-07T23:31:36Z")
Actually a lot of English words are derived from European languages, such as German. As well as Latin obviously, from when we were ruled by the Romans… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/13 "2004-02-08T15:28:40Z")
And a few from Anglo-Saxon but if it typed them \*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*\*\*\* \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* is meaningless ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/answer/42278/14 "2004-02-08T15:31:10Z")
> \*Originally posted by reverendflash \* > \*\*easy. For the same reason a Plumbob is the lead weight at the end of a string, plumbers got their name, because they used lead pipes. also why chemical sign is PB… Rev \*\* Pb derives from latin as my so learned colegue stated oh what about tongue (no thats not an offer!!!)