Mal ,'War Stories'
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.
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.
clabberd = clapboard. I have heard people pronouce it clap-board -- but they were very very wrong.
And of course, Staunton (VA) and Taunton (MA) do NOT rhyme.
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.
I'm reading tv guide insider and clicked to go to the JoA piece and got a very pretty Wonderfalls dvd pop-up ad!
Anyone get into arguements over "orange"? Some people I know pronounce it "OR-ange" and others say "ARE-ange".
Deh Moin
Cheers. I am an ignoramus no more.
What gets dropped from waistcoat? I've never heard it shortened. Perhaps it's an American thing?
What do you drop from clapboard?
You drop the P and sort of squish the board part: clab-bird.
Like clapboard, waistcoat, forecastle, boatswain.
What am I doing wrong? The way I'm saying the first three, I think I'm pronouncing all the syllables. I have slight doubts about my pronunciation of the third, because my pronunciation is based only on reading it and not hearing it, and I think the fourth sounds something like "bosun." But the first two especially... where is there a dropped syllable?
Also, is there no love for the funkiness that is "colonel?"
Tchopatoulis.
Isn't that (more or less) "chap-a-tooliss"?
chop-uh-too-liss
Heh. That right there demonstrates the "Cincinnati accent" -- I try to turn "ah"s and "uh"s into nasally "ay"s. That's really funny.