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.
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.
Tchopatoulis.
Isn't that (more or less) "chap-a-tooliss"?
Puyallup
Is that "poo-ALL-up"?
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.
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.
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.
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.
My boss's dog does not like banana peppers....
Like clapboard, waistcoat
What do you drop from clapboard? I don't think I've ever heard it shortened. And I know I've heard waistcoat pronounced fully quite a lot.
Seeya, Neely!
