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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.
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!
Des Moines: How does one pronounce it?
Deh Moin
Tchopatoulis.
Isn't that (more or less) "chap-a-tooliss"?
chop-uh-too-liss
To be fair, I don't know how to pronounce Tsawwassen. "tsaww-WAWW-sen" is probably what I'd try.
YTsawwassenMV, but I grew up hearing (and of course saying) it as t'WAHS-sen. It's where they keep the ferries to Vancouver Island, so it was a frequent destination, what with the random assortment of friends and family on the island.
I didn't really notice the spelling and actually think about it until about five years ago, but dropping the first S seems to be slightly more common than dropping the T or pronouncing both.
The side effect of actually being aware of the word is that now all ways of saying it sound wrong.
Try Ecum Secum, and Necum Teuch
Dun Laoghaire
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Isn't that (more or less) "chap-a-tooliss"?
The first time I ate at Commanders Palace, I asked the waiter what I was eating (it was a corporate dinner), and I thought he had some sort of weird impediment, because it sounded like he kept saying "veal chop chop au Tulis", or something. It was actually veal chop Tchoupatoulis.