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.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
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.
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2005 9:01:17 am PST #2434 of 10002
That which does not kill you should RUN
Dana - Jan 31, 2005 9:01:30 am PST #2435 of 10002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
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
That which does not kill you should RUN
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.
DavidS - Jan 31, 2005 9:04:27 am PST #2442 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Still waiting to hear about the snooty way to pronounce "waistcoat."
sumi - Jan 31, 2005 9:04:43 am PST #2443 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
forecastle = foKsil - kind of.
boatswain = bosn