Hil, in New England "clabbered" would tend to be pronounced "clabbid" anyway.
OOH! Like when I realized the mother in Little Women is actually called "Mommy."
Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.
Willow ,'First Date'
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.
Jesse - Jan 31, 2005 3:50:37 pm PST #2629 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hil R. - Jan 31, 2005 3:52:15 pm PST #2630 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, in New England "clabbered" would tend to be pronounced "clabbid" anyway.
Yeah, I know. I'm just saying that I've never heard anybody pronounce that r and not say "clap-board."
Sue - Jan 31, 2005 3:52:24 pm PST #2631 of 10002
hip deep in pie
My from Warwick RI former roommate called it "Warrick."
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 3:53:54 pm PST #2632 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
As I noted, many, many, pronunciations.
Henry Higgins could have a field day at the Warwick Mall.
Trudy Booth - Jan 31, 2005 3:55:56 pm PST #2633 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
OOH! Like when I realized the mother in Little Women is actually called "Mommy."
She IS?!?!?
Jesse - Jan 31, 2005 3:58:12 pm PST #2634 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That's my guess, anyway. "Mar" in New England-ese = "mah." Mah-mee = mommy.
Trudy Booth - Jan 31, 2005 4:04:10 pm PST #2635 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Holy COW!
That makes sense. And I'm stunned. Seriously.
sumi - Jan 31, 2005 4:14:35 pm PST #2636 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
It took me forever to realize that too!
(I suppose that "Mommy" was so colloquial that there wasn't yet a conventional way to spell it.)
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 4:17:14 pm PST #2637 of 10002
Ok, that's so something I had missed in nearly 30 years, despite hearing many many stories of my dad's mystification at his car being called a cahmengear and various other NE-ese stories. And knowing my dad grew up without Js.
Never occurred to me it was an accent. Huh.
Just emailed what I hope is another lost friend (in her case, I lost all her contact info in a computer disaster.) It's like a plague!
amych - Jan 31, 2005 4:19:14 pm PST #2638 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
mystification at his car being called a cahmengear
Hey, now, my marmee drove a cahmengear.