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My dog crosses the line |
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You can't stop me from saying robut or injun. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Tijuana is a tough one. Most pronounce it Tee you wanna...which isn't entirely incorrect from an English perspective. But, the lazy change the "you" to "uh", changing it to what you describe. As I understand it, the correct way is TeeWhanna. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Three Generations of Service  |
Not that it matters especially, but the OED audio pronunciation disagrees with you. Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent. | |||
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Oh, god... There's "liberry" "suposably" "asparagrus" "lectricity"... The list goes on. It's so difficult being perfect... "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Another, saguaro (as in the cactus), is correctly pronounced sawharo. | |||
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President Carter did this on a frequent basis. He had an advanced degree in nuclear physics. I guess it was the Georgia upbringing. | |||
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Dies Irae |
Carmel instead of caramel. | |||
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I say carmel instead of caramel. My girlfriend is always on me about pin/pen, colors ( i pronounce it collars), and the list goes on. My dad is bad about it: instead of a soccer goalie he says goldie. He says crick instead of creek (my whole family on both sides of the KY and WV sides says that) He was raised in Appalachia and that is how they talk. I didn't know that about saguaro though. I learned something today. | |||
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It can be both ways. The word most are looking for is "moot," as in a "moot point." I prefer mute point, and say it that way because I intend to use the word "mute" instead of "moot." (Had I intended to say "moot," I'd have used the word, because I'm an intelligent guy and can think for myself...don't need people telling what word I meant to use). I use "mute" because it's a silent point, and I emphasize that as a point which has no meaning, vs. "moot," which is a word that annoys me. Mute is more poetic and points to what is intended in that context; a blunt point, silent in efficacy, and lacking a voice. Mute. On the topic of pronunciation, "Moun'an" for mountain. "Foun'an" for fountain. It's got a goddamn T. Use it. My ex-mother in law loved "kwiopwaktor" for chiropractor. I was never sure if she was trying to be cute or just that stupid (pretty sure it was stupid), but "cute" does't work for a cycloptic murdering grey hag infected by the soul of satan. It just doesn't. | |||
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Supposebly Axe instead of ask is a good one too. | |||
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| Grandiosity is a sign of mental illness |
You pronounce the 'l' in 'salmon'? | |||
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| Grandiosity is a sign of mental illness |
Some of my own favorites are the adding of gratuitous 't's to words that end in 's'. Like the truck is in the shop so I have to take the bust. The bust stop is over there, acrosst the street. I have bad habits of my own, but that one always gets me. | |||
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| Grandiosity is a sign of mental illness |
Sounds similar to folks who say things like buh'ih for button. | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
That's the first I've heard of it.  | |||
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I had a class at my Fortune 100 company where the instructor pronounced "breakfast" as "breks-puss". Took me several times hearing it before I realized what she was talking about. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
Oh yeah, ghetto talk.  I once knew a white girl from a rural town in NY who used to speak this way. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss |
I gathered TERmeric from them. Either way, it's not TOOmeric. Besides, they're Brits. What the hell do they know about proper English.  ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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harassment huh-rass-ment not hair-ess-ment | |||
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