Des Moines: How does one pronounce it?
Deh Moin
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
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.
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
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!
beathen - Jan 31, 2005 9:00:58 am PST #2430 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Anyone get into arguements over "orange"? Some people I know pronounce it "OR-ange" and others say "ARE-ange".