Still waiting to hear about the snooty way to pronounce "waistcoat."
Vest
Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.
Wash ,'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 9:05:53 am PST #2448 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Pix - Jan 31, 2005 9:06:08 am PST #2449 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Of course, I spent a good twelve years playing the viola, which means I was playing offbeats half of the time.
Katie! My sistah in viola-playing! How much do we hate pizzicato? Almost as much as we hate whole notes.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 31, 2005 9:06:22 am PST #2450 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
However, maybe Nora or Tom tried it when they were there.
Dude, if they had it, we tried it. If we tried it, it was awesome. I drank a lot of beer that week, but I know that everything from your bro's pub was really great.
Alibelle - Jan 31, 2005 9:06:59 am PST #2451 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
forecastle = foKsil - kind of.
Ha. Like a faux castle. Or faux skill. Faux skill created the forecastle. At least that's the way I'm reading it.
boatswain = bosn
I'm not sure how to say that.
bicyclops - Jan 31, 2005 9:07:12 am PST #2452 of 10002
And I don't even know what a forecastle IS.
The front part of a Jewish castle that the mohel cuts off?
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 9:07:36 am PST #2453 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
But that is still two syllables.
Nutty is great at linguistics, NSM with the counting.
And I don't even know what a forecastle IS.
It's the forward superstructure on a ship.
Susan W. - Jan 31, 2005 9:08:03 am PST #2454 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
You guys are totally forgetting "colonel." Which sounds NOTHING like it's spelled. It is completely wrong, and the written and spoken parts of the word aren't even distantly related.
Oh, ITA. And I'm sure if colonels appeared in my novel half as often as sergeants, it'd bug me more.
How would y'all say Sequim, Puyallup, or Tsawwassen?
I didn't know how to say the last one until Plei explained, and I've been here since '99.
I can't actually tell where the emphasis should go, because I'm now earwormed with the Puyallup Fair theme song.
I'm thinking of that old M's commercial, before my time but it's on the Edgar farewell DVD, where he's teaching the rookies how to speak Seattle: "I took my geoduck to Puyallup."
Nutty - Jan 31, 2005 9:09:15 am PST #2455 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
is there no love for the funkiness that is "colonel?"
I love it. Almost as much as I love the English penchant for inserting an invisible F into "lieutenant". It is so very Greek-sounding and counterintuitive.
Sue - Jan 31, 2005 9:09:26 am PST #2456 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Then there's the UK/Canadian pronunciation of Lieutenant = "Leftenant"
shrift - Jan 31, 2005 9:10:47 am PST #2457 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
We have a lot of placenames that have that effect on people up here in the PNW.
And also in Michigan!
Potawatomi. Pequaming. Keweenaw. Ishpeming. Muskallonge. Naubinway. Michiumackinac. Ypsilanti. Cheboygan. Wequetonsing. Meauwataka. Dowagiac. Shiawassee. Tecumseh.
Potawatomi is almost as fun to say as Titicaca.