Ooo: Phonoblog
I would get a concerned look on my face and point at the words.
We have a lot of placenames that have that effect on people up here in the PNW.
Giles: Helping out with the dishes makes me feel useful. Dawn: Wanna clean out the garage with us
Saturday? You could feel indispensable.
'Dirty Girls'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
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.
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:01 am PST #2400 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:03 am PST #2401 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Dude, even cow looks wrong if I write it enough times.
Cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow...
Huh. I wonder if that's why Gary Larson quit doing the Farside.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:21 am PST #2402 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tchopatoulis. IJS.
Katie M - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:45 am PST #2403 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
How would y'all say Sequim, Puyallup, or Tsawwassen?
*opens mouth*
*realizes would be cheating*
*closes mouth*
(To be fair, I don't know how to pronounce Tsawwassen. "tsaww-WAWW-sen" is probably what I'd try.)
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:47 am PST #2404 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Okay, good point. But I'm just thinking -- are there words that end in "i" where it's meant to be pronounced "uh"? All I can think of are Italian entrees -- capellini, linguini, etc. -- and they aren't pronounced "uh."
That's largely my objection to it -- I don't hear it done to other words that end in "i", and so -- to me -- it doesn't make sense. YiMV.
Jars - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:52 am PST #2405 of 10002
Des Moines.
Yes, this. How does one pronounce it? Were one an ignorant unAmerican?
I live in a place called Dun Laoghaire. Have fun with that.
DavidS - Jan 31, 2005 8:52:18 am PST #2406 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Of course, I was the annoying friendless pedantic second-grader who RAILED against my classmates' pronunciation of "PUH-sketti" and "crown" (for "crayon").
Ahhh, nothing like trying to win friends through pedantry and correction.
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.
Apparently old-timers used to be distinguished by calling Miami, "Miam-uh." Like old-time Angelenos used to pronounce Los Angeles with the hard "G."
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2005 8:52:52 am PST #2407 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I used to live on Guoin. Luckily I could just name the apartment complex for people. Never worked out how to pronounce my address.
Dana - Jan 31, 2005 8:52:56 am PST #2408 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Tchopatoulis. IJS.
I don't think that's spelled right.
sumi - Jan 31, 2005 8:53:34 am PST #2409 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Desplaines, Illinois. Pronounce the esses in the first one, but not the second one.