What do you drop from clapboard?
You drop the P and sort of squish the board part: clab-bird.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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 9:01:01 am PST #2432 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
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
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 9:02:42 am PST #2437 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
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.
sumi - Jan 31, 2005 9:03:22 am PST #2438 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Weskit? Where we (Americans) think it's waist (long a)- coat.
Betsy HP - Jan 31, 2005 9:03:25 am PST #2439 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Yup. Clapboard is pronounced like "clabbered".
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2005 9:03:38 am PST #2440 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Is that "poo-ALL-up"?
pyu-al-up.
Hey, I was close! That should count for something.
Alibelle - Jan 31, 2005 9:03:58 am PST #2441 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
clabberd = clapboard. I have heard people pronouce it clap-board -- but they were very very wrong.
But that is still two syllables.