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.
Faith: A kid. Angel's got a kid. Wesley: Connor. Faith: A teenage kid born last year. Wesley: I told you, he grew up in a hell dimension. Faith: Right. And what, Cordelia spent her last summer as… Wesley: A divine being. Faith: Uh-huh. Can I just ask--What the hell are you people doing?
'Why We Fight'
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.
Jars - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:52 am PST #2405 of 10002
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.
DavidS - Jan 31, 2005 8:53:37 am PST #2410 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I don't think that's spelled right.
Tchoupatoulis, I think.
Alibelle - Jan 31, 2005 8:53:43 am PST #2411 of 10002
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
You guys are totally forgetting "colonel." Which sounds NOTHING like it's spelled. It is completely wrong, and the written and spoken parts of the word aren't even distantly related.
even if very few people clap at a slower rhythm, the whole group will adapt to that, eventually.
I wonder if this is because people's arms get tired, and you slow down clapping so that you can stop?
I am a fabulous dancer, white as milk, got great rhythm, AND I got back.
That's all I got to say on that subject.
I'm off to go sit with Robin.
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.
Hee. This is making me giggle like crazy.
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 8:53:49 am PST #2412 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Tchopatoulis. IJS.
Tchoupatoulis. IJS.
x-posty
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2005 8:54:05 am PST #2413 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think that's spelled right.
Feel free to correct me. All I know is it got enough google hits to make me risk it. But I'd not swear on a stack of HHTTG, or anything.
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2005 8:54:18 am PST #2414 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Tchopatoulis.
Isn't that (more or less) "chap-a-tooliss"?
Puyallup
Is that "poo-ALL-up"?