JZ, thanks and backflung.
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.
It's not too uncommon a name out here, most of the women I know with that name are Italian-American, and I'm sure that's why there's the long E sound in it, instead of the long I, which just is far too vagina for me. /also twelve
Yep. (That's my middle name.)
See Hil, don't you want to just say, "You dirty Canadians. It makes a long "E" sound!"?
It's German by way of Denmark -- thus the similarity to Petersen, Olafsen, etc. Though I have no idea who this fellow named 'Thies' was.
Oh, I would have said the H. I'm glad I know. Thies was a famous lover of Bitches, who was praised wherever he went, for his grokking of them, and by grokking, I mean...well, just the actuall grok is enough, isn't it?
Hi Karl! (waves)
Nothing to report today other than that I'm feverish and sniffly. The biggest cat is snoring loudly in the other room. Why is it so dern cute when he does it?
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 same relatives who say "Kay-run?" Yep, they say Regina with the long I sound. I have (had) a great aunt Regina.
What is reuben ring? It sounds like I want some.
It's my reuben sandwich compromise. Emily LOVES reuben sandwiches, and, well, they're not my favorite. But, the reuben ring stuffs the reuben goodies in a ring of crescent rolls. You bake it for about a half hour, and yummy goodness abounds.
Hmm. "Regine," in either German or French, is pronounced with a long e sound. (I was named after my great-grandmother Regine -- German, so pronounced with an "a" at the end.) Now I'm wondering how there started being two English pronunciations.
Though I have no idea who this fellow named 'Thies' was.
If it's really Danish then he probably was a quiet guy. Ties ('Th' is not standard Scandinavian so the h would have been added later) means silent or quiet.
It's just dirty.
It really really is. Now, just imagine that you are 8 years old and your grandmother says to you, "Now, go give your Aunt Regina [pro. Aint RegIna] some sugar."
Traumatizing, I tell you.
Hmm. "Regine," in either German or French, is pronounced with a long e sound. (I was named after my great-grandmother Regine -- German, so pronounced with an "a" at the end.) Now I'm wondering how there started being two English pronunciations.
English (England English) makes its own way with a lot of words though, doesn't it? Of course now, I can only think of valet and fillet, but ijs.
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ChiKat, you just skeeved my inner child.
ChiKat, you just skeeved my inner child.
This is what I'm talkin' about. I think any aberrations in my world view are now fully explained.
