Huh. Didn't know there were even two. I'll just keep mum, because there's no way I'll remember which is which.
I only care because that's my Dad's hometown and alma mater and it came up fairly often in my previous life in academia.
Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.
Kaylee ,'Shindig'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
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.
megan walker - Aug 20, 2007 2:25:43 pm PDT #5718 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
megan walker - Aug 20, 2007 2:28:20 pm PDT #5719 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
There's also "gren-ich" Connecticut and "green-wich" Rhode Island, right?
Yes, we Connecticuties don't like to bother with those pesky middle letters. See also cur-ain and, well, conne-ti-cut.
Pix - Aug 20, 2007 2:31:07 pm PDT #5720 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Yes, we Connecticuties don't like to bother with those pesky middle letters. See also cur-ain and, well, conne-ti-cut.
Very true. (I will always love billytea for coining "Connecticutie." First abbreviation for Connecticut natives I'd ever heard that didn't sound ridiculous.)
§ ita § - Aug 20, 2007 2:35:23 pm PDT #5721 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It is annoying to sit here when all I need is a prescription refill. Guaranteed she'll spend less than 10 minutes with me after waiting for half an hour.
Are you at my doctor? I didn't even get to check in until 10 minutes past the appointment time, despite arriving more than five minutes before it.
However, once they took me back I was seen almost right away, and now I have a prescription that involves a syringe, so major cool points.
we Connecticuties don't like to bother with those pesky middle letters
Kicking it old school, yo. Green-which is just wrong.
I continually get into an argument with a friend about how the Brits have bizarre pronunciation. I don't know why he bothers. I stop him dead in his tracks with "Arkansas" every time.
Glamcookie - Aug 20, 2007 2:38:14 pm PDT #5722 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I could be at your doctor. Mine's in Santa Monica - Dr. Feltman. Love her but I'm hating this wait! 40 minutes and counting. I walk here from work. They couldn't call and tell me she was running behind???
Pix - Aug 20, 2007 2:38:58 pm PDT #5723 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Kicking it old school, yo. Green-which is just wrong.
Yes, and yet we say "Thames" with the "th" sound when we talk about our New London river. Sometimes old school and sometimes not, I guess.
ETA: GC, that blows. I used to have my doctor in Santa Monica for similar reasons (work), but now I'm up in Pasadena. It just got to be a PITA.
DebetEsse - Aug 20, 2007 2:56:20 pm PDT #5724 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
The story I heard (for Thames St in PVD) was that it was named before whatever king of England it was who couldn't pronounce his "th" and so, it being the king's English, became "tayms" there.
brenda m - Aug 20, 2007 2:56:35 pm PDT #5725 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I didn't know there was anywhere that pronounced the W. They need to stop.
Ginger - Aug 20, 2007 2:59:47 pm PDT #5726 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
There's a small town in South Georgia that changed its pronounciation from Ber-lin' to Ber'lin during WWI.
brenda m - Aug 20, 2007 3:00:55 pm PDT #5727 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, in Wisconsin we have New BERlin for the same reason.