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.
Jinx? If you and Dreg have been using my moisturizer again I'm going to have to rip off your scaly- hey, what's the deal with your face?
Glory ,'Potential'
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.
Nutty - Jan 31, 2005 9:09:15 am PST #2455 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
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.
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2005 9:10:52 am PST #2458 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
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."
Hee!
Susan, wasn't Sequim making some grumbles about dropping the "e" so that people would start saying the name of the town correctly? (I can say it--Squim, FWIW--I just can't ever remember how to spell it unless I think "see-quim", which, err, is actually kinda vulgar, now that I think about it.)
Katie M - Jan 31, 2005 9:11:27 am PST #2459 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Katie! My sistah in viola-playing! How much do we hate pizzicato? Almost as much as we hate whole notes.
Ah, yes, pizzicato. "Ow. Ow. Ow. Okay, boring, and also, ow!"
I still distinctly remember this thing--good Lord, I think I even remember the name, it was "Festique"--that I played in middle school where the violas repeated the same measure something like fifty-seven times. I can still hum it, fourteen years later.
Nutty - Jan 31, 2005 9:11:51 am PST #2460 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Aha! X-post with Sue!
boatswain = bosn
This sounds like bo as in tae bo, and then the S-N is just two consonants smashed together, where the S sounds more like a Z than an S. Bo-zn.
Okay, you will never actually use this word outside of historical novels about the navy, but it is a neat word nonetheless.
Susan W. - Jan 31, 2005 9:11:55 am PST #2461 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
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.
Heh. I've reached the point where I use the English pronunciation for my fictional characters of that rank, but the American one for my nephew in the National Guard. It's just so fun to say. Lef-tenant, lef-tenant, lef-tenant.
Cashmere - Jan 31, 2005 9:14:08 am PST #2462 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
Potawatomi is almost as fun to say as Titicaca.
NOTHING is more fun than saying "Titicaca."
Kathy A - Jan 31, 2005 9:14:12 am PST #2463 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
There are the Illinois towns of Cairo and Marseilles. Out-of-staters can always be spotted by how they say these two--not pronounced like they are in Europe, of course, but "CAY-ro" and "Mar-SAILS," instead.
Susan W. - Jan 31, 2005 9:14:15 am PST #2464 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
(I can say it--Squim, FWIW--I just can't ever remember how to spell it unless I think "see-quim", which, err, is actually kinda vulgar, now that I think about it.)
Heh. Now I'll think of it that way, and giggle like a 12-year-old. Before I'd just thought, "sequin with an M."
Alabama is short on pronunciation traps. Sylacauga is the only one I can think of off the top of my head. We have lots of long N.A. place names, but most of them have intuitive pronunciations--nothing tricky about Tuscaloosa or Tallapoosa.