Desplaines, Illinois. Pronounce the esses in the first one, but not the second one.
Spike: We got a history, him and me. Fred: What? Spike: It was a long time ago. He was a young Watcher, fresh out of the academy when we crossed paths. It was a, what-you-call battle of wills and blood was spilled. Vendettas were sworn. It was a whole-- Fred: My God you're so full of crap. Spike: Yeah. Okay.
'Unleashed'
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.
sumi - Jan 31, 2005 8:53:34 am PST #2409 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
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"?
Nutty - Jan 31, 2005 8:54:39 am PST #2415 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
My favorite part of English is dropping whole syllables without noting it in the spelling. It just screams "I am an old word!", and I like old words. Like clapboard, waistcoat, forecastle, boatswain.
Nilly - Jan 31, 2005 8:55:19 am PST #2416 of 10002
Swouncing
I should have asked people to pronounce stuff when I had been in the USA, just to understand what y'all are talking about now regarding pronunciation, right?
OK, back to grading for me. If anyone sees me here before tomorrow, please misspell or mispronounce my name in a way that will remind me I should be doing other things, OK? Thanks.
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 8:55:21 am PST #2417 of 10002
Des Moines= DiMoyn.
I love some of the Maya/Aztec names for their impossibleness. Even if you have some idea of the phonetics at work, you can get them so very wrong.
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2005 8:55:39 am PST #2418 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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 old habits die hard, as we have witnessed here. I really gotta stop my bitchy pedantry.