I'm reading tv guide insider and clicked to go to the JoA piece and got a very pretty Wonderfalls dvd pop-up ad!
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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.
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.
My husband's Iowan relatives say "Duh Moy-in."
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.
What do you drop from clapboard?
The p. "Cla'board." I remember the first time I ran across "fo'c's'le" in a book I read as a kid. I had the damnedest time trying to figure out how to pronounce it.
Weskit? Where we (Americans) think it's waist (long a)- coat.