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.
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
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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.
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.
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.
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
Cashmere - Jan 31, 2005 9:04:46 am PST #2444 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
My in-laws pronounce "leash" as "lish". I kid you not. "Don't forget to put the dog on the lish."
Drive me bugfuck. Way worse than when they say "warsh". As in, "you warsh your face with a warsh rag."
Freakish Midwestern dialect.
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2005 9:04:51 am PST #2445 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
Our local Des Moines is pronounced Deh Moynz.
Or, if you're feeling the urge, Dez Moy-knees. (The unofficial mocking/affectionate way of saying it, at least back when I went to high school there.)
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2005 9:04:53 am PST #2446 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"Clabberd" and "weskit"? Weird.
And I don't even know what a forecastle IS.