Cool! I'll e ya' now.

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Yeah, that's a total wrong place, wrong time thing. It's just freaky.

Poor Emily is all tuckered out...she's fast asleep, all cuddled up on the couch. I'd take a picture, but that'd be mean.

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I can totally understand that if one is just seeing it in writing, and from a culture where the name is unfamiliar. But I bet if I'd introduced myself to you in person, you'd have listened to the sounds and taken them on board, rather than proceeded to call me Nicholas, NicOLEuh, Nicole or Nicolai for the next month or so. (Which is more than can be said for some of my co-workers.)

I actually know more than one Nichola/Nicola, but the only way I'd heard it pronounced until today (well, I guess including today, I keep forgetting I can't actually hear you people, and that my brain just dubs in your voices) was with the NicOLEuh way. That said, once I'd heard you say, "Nickle-uh" I'd have remembered, I hope.

I know I'm always startled by the way Canadians (and I assume Brits) say Regina with a long I sound. It is said Re-geena here.

The less said about the spelling and pronunciation of my surname, the better.

Now I can't resist asking, Karl. Does the "ie" take on a long E sound? I have it in my head that Germanic or possibly Germanic names with E and I together, in the middle somewhere, take on the long vowel sound of whichever of the two comes second, so like Weissenbach would be Why-sen-bach, etc.

Cindy, one of our housemates is named Cindy-called-Cin, and I always wonder why she's talking about someone named Christopher when I read your journal on my friends' page, before I realise, "Whoops, wrong Cindy."

Heh. I made a similar mistake, yesterday. A woman on my friends list was complaining about the giggling of a person who has the same name as a Buffista baby. She was then talking about something vaguely potentially romantic that hadn't panned out. I blinked hard, about three times, before I realized (thankfully) that it wasn't happily-married-Buffista-with-adorable-baby complaining about her baby's giggling and vague, failed assignations.

It is possible that the inside of my brain is a strange and scary place.

Heh. Yesterday at church, someone said to me quite pointedly, "You really do dream in Technicolor, don't you," after I provided an analogy on forgiveness.

<crushing on amych<

Crushing on amych is like the new black Scrappy Is Wise T-shirt.

We pronounce my lil sis like "Kair-un" (rhyme the first syl. with "air"...or rhyme the whole thing with "Erin"). But, many of my southern relatives pronounce it "kay-run" (rhyme the first syl. with "day"). My mom tried for years to get them to pronounce it the way she wanted, but gave up after awhile.

Sometimes, it is just accent at fault, more than it is willful mispronunciation. I know New Englanders have more vowel sounds than most of the rest of the USians. Now that you type all that out, I think I'd most likely rhyme how I say "Karen" with how I say "Aaron".

Oh, dear. What a tragedy: [link]

I saw that on Boston.com. It's awful.

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Cindy, check your profile addy, if you please, dear.

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know I'm always startled by the way Canadians (and I assume Brits) say Regina with a long I sound. It is said Re-geena here.

Can't say I've ever heard a non-Canadian ever say that anyway - but I'll go out on a limb and say the pronunciation difference is because we're twelve.

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Oh, dear. Now Toto's all cuddled up with sleeping Emily. So. Damn. Cute.

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Poor Emily is all tuckered out...she's fast asleep, all cuddled up on the couch. I'd take a picture, but that'd be mean.

Mean to her, maybe, but what about us, huh?

Either way you're mean to someone.

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Now Toto's all cuddled up with sleeping Emily. So. Damn. Cute.

I think pictures must be taken at this point.

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ION, I am making dinner, but don't want to wake the sleeping beauties. So, should I make mashed potatoes as a side dish, or is Asian salad and Rueben Ring enough?

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Juliana has a point. Toto would want a picture.

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