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.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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.
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
The status is NOT quo.
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".
Signed,
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.