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.
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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.
Kathy A - Jan 31, 2005 9:14:12 am PST #2463 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
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.
Jars - Jan 31, 2005 9:14:31 am PST #2465 of 10002
I know!
Gold star for Sue.
The 'weskit' thing isn't snotty. Is it just an older pronunciation? I know people with titles who happily say waistcoat.
I first learned the mysterious pronunciation of 'colonel' whilst playing Cluedo as a kid. And then took great joy in mocking all the kids who pronounced it wrongly when I played with them. Good times.
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2005 9:14:34 am PST #2466 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
Okay, you will never actually use this word outside of historical novels about the navy, but it is a neat word nonetheless.
You must not have any family what works on ships, else you'd hear it lots.
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2005 9:16:01 am PST #2467 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
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."
I'd never actually thought of it that way (the vulgar way--see quim was PERFECTLY INNOCENT in my head) until, literally, when I typed it upthread. Now I can't stop giggling at it.
Pix - Jan 31, 2005 9:16:29 am PST #2468 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
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.
I think you misspelled "The Nutcracker Suite".
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Wants to Commit Bloody Murder Every Christmas
Megan E. - Jan 31, 2005 9:20:13 am PST #2469 of 10002
what pronunciation bugs me? Film with two syllables. Fill-um. It's just wrong.
askye - Jan 31, 2005 9:21:11 am PST #2470 of 10002
Thrive to spite them
We have a Cairo (KAY -ro) around here and Havana that's sometimes pronounced HEYvana, depending on who you talk to.
Fred Pete - Jan 31, 2005 9:22:41 am PST #2471 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
NOTHING is more fun than saying "Titicaca."
How about saying "Mukwonago"?
Cashmere - Jan 31, 2005 9:24:02 am PST #2472 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
How about saying "Mukwonago"?
Mukwonago. Titicaca. Nope. Titicaca wins. It's like you're saying something dirty when you're not.