Buffy ,'Chosen'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Also, what is the correct way to say "Arkansas"? I always say "are-can-saw".
That's right. The problem is not people saying Native American origin words like "Arkansas" and "Missouri" wrong, but that the people who first wrote them down using the English alphabet were apparently on some early form of crack.
"Shawano" kills me. It's pronounced "SHAW-no."
What is really weird is that rhyme and rhythm do not use "rhy" in the same way.
It's that damnable silent e again, causing all sorts of trouble, givin' short vowels notions that they're long.
The town of "Campbell," in Northern Ohio, is pronounced "camel."
It's AR-kin-sah. Isn't it?
When I was six or so, I got into an argument with a teacher about reptiles having pre-dated birds. No, I was told. God created them both at the same time. Checking Genesis, he wasn't even right about that.
Does anyone else have the thing where you know a word is spelled correctly, but the more you write it, the more wrong it looks?
Dude, even cow looks wrong if I write it enough times.
How would y'all say Sequim, Puyallup, or Tsawwassen?
It's AR-kin-sah. Isn't it?
I've heard that people from Kansas like to call it "Our-Kansas"
Okay, now the word "Kansas" is starting to look funny.
Also, why is "climb" spelled C-L-I-M-B instead of C-L-I-M-E?
Because it comes from the Old English "climban." English is strangly conservative for a language that lets you add words willy nilly.
And I still don't understand people who say "Missour-UH" and "Cincinnat-UH." There's a freaking I on the end of the names, people.
There's an S on the end of Illinois.
t lived in a part of Missouri that said "Missour-uh"