Recently I came across the word painstakingly. :shock: Now the ending -ly suggestets the word to be an adverb while -ing- referred to the present participle. But what about painstak- ? :?
How to seperate the syllabels? Pain-stak or pains-tak? Probably with with an e behind the k?
Well I started a thoroughful solid and careful investigation and found out that I had to research painstakingly!
What a word, if you investigate its sense.
Michael
P.S. Now I?ll pull up my stakes for today! Good night!
Am I right in thinking you are referring to taking pains? Isnāt simply that you take pains to do something you take a lot of trouble to do something? Or am I being too simplistic?
Yes, you?re right, I referred to taking pains. But not only that since my dictonary suggested pain-staking in the explanations for pain! Furtheron my dictionary suggests a stake to be a post at which the OLD-Red-Indians tortured their enemies before sending them into the happy hunting-grounds!!! :shock: Now, the complete expression I came across was āpainstakingly researchā and so I wrote this topic since I imagined the torture of such an investigation! :lol:
Beside that I imagined the pronounciation the BFBS would use when saying that word and as I?m an old German babble-head I couldn?t avoid to find it funny. :oops:
Are we singing from the same hymn sheet when I suggest painstakingly to mean rather conscientious or using much attention?
What other interesting word do you or any other member know?
:lol:
Somehow that sounds exactly right for an Aussie. I can imagine my Australian friends saying it that way, too. Iāll have to ask them for a test pronunciation.
By the way, youāre doing quite well with the Roman numeral puzzle, Tamara. Are you a puzzle fan?
No, Amy, Iām not a puzzle fan at all. But my head is built in a strange way: sometimes it canāt stop and just continues working (investigating :lol:), in itself. With no order
I think Iāll give you extra credit for that one, Michael, but only if you pronounce it with an English accent. 
