What do you drop from clapboard?
You drop the P and sort of squish the board part: clab-bird.
None of it means a damn thing.
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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.
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
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.
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
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.