And of course, Staunton (VA) and Taunton (MA) do NOT rhyme.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
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.
Fred Pete - Jan 31, 2005 9:00:13 am PST #2427 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
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".
Jars - Jan 31, 2005 9:00:59 am PST #2431 of 10002
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?
Ginger - Jan 31, 2005 9:01:01 am PST #2432 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
What do you drop from clapboard?
You drop the P and sort of squish the board part: clab-bird.
Alibelle - Jan 31, 2005 9:01:04 am PST #2433 of 10002
Apart from sports, "my secret favorite thing on earth is ketchup. I will put ketchup on anything. But it has to be Heinz." - my husband, Michael Vartan
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?"
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2005 9:01:17 am PST #2434 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Dana - Jan 31, 2005 9:01:30 am PST #2435 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
My husband's Iowan relatives say "Duh Moy-in."
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2005 9:01:59 am PST #2436 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
Is that "poo-ALL-up"?
pyu-al-up.
I can't actually tell where the emphasis should go, because I'm now earwormed with the Puyallup Fair theme song.