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!
See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown.
Mal ,'Shindig'
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.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2005 8:57:05 am PST #2420 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ginger - Jan 31, 2005 8:57:44 am PST #2421 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Des Moines: How does one pronounce it?
Deh Moin
Dana - Jan 31, 2005 8:58:38 am PST #2422 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Tchopatoulis.
Isn't that (more or less) "chap-a-tooliss"?
chop-uh-too-liss
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2005 8:58:48 am PST #2423 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
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.
Sue - Jan 31, 2005 8:58:50 am PST #2424 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Try Ecum Secum, and Necum Teuch
Dun Laoghaire
I know!
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 8:59:40 am PST #2425 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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.
sumi - Jan 31, 2005 8:59:51 am PST #2426 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
clabberd = clapboard. I have heard people pronouce it clap-board -- but they were very very wrong.
Fred Pete - Jan 31, 2005 9:00:13 am PST #2427 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
And of course, Staunton (VA) and Taunton (MA) do NOT rhyme.
JohnSweden - Jan 31, 2005 9:00:21 am PST #2428 of 10002
I can't even.
Des Moines: How does one pronounce it?
Deh Moin
Ooh, ooh, I know this one: "Day Mwaahnn".
One of these days, those monks will rise and they are gonna be pissed.
sumi - Jan 31, 2005 9:00:52 am PST #2429 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I'm reading tv guide insider and clicked to go to the JoA piece and got a very pretty Wonderfalls dvd pop-up ad!