Very true. (I will always love billytea for coining "Connecticutie." First abbreviation for Connecticut natives I'd ever heard that didn't sound ridiculous.)
As long as you're not a guy...
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.
Wasn't that due to French speaking settlers?
Magdalene, St. John and that name pronounce "Fanshaw," on the other hand, just seem like the English are messing with us.
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.
Supposedly that's even older school... the story I heard that the British said it with the "th" as well until whatever originally-german-speaking monarch kept butchering it. The Connecticuties never got the memo.
butbutbutbut... the Thames (the one in England) was spelled Temes or Temese for a good 800 years before it ever got a TH
Man, my sister is going to be ticked! That was one of her favorite factoids.
How were people's Mondays?
I've been taking Mixed Martial Arts classes. Today I did a hard round kick without turning out my opposite foot and pulled the shit out of my hip flexor. YEOW.
But I sort of like it. Like "yeah, feel that man"