I need to download the podcast from Fair Game. I missed it tonight and Faith interviewed William Gibson.
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.
I will always love billytea for coining "Connecticutie." First abbreviation for Connecticut natives I'd ever heard that didn't sound ridiculous.
Aww. I rock!
Came back to the hotel to eat lunch, and laid around. Then decided we did want to go back to the zoo, and did so.
This is rarely the wrong decision.
We have Taliaferro County, which is pronounced "tolliver."*turns head*
Aroo?
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Okay, I can kinda see how you get there. If you are a little bit drunk. And only have a fleeting flirtation with the whole "letters have very specific sounds" oppressionarchy. Yeah, I can kinda get there.
I think of it in the same way that Worcestershire is pronounced "woostershur"
There are a couple of names in CA that I had pronunciation issues with. Sepulveda, I pronounced SepulVAYda the first time I said it out loud. Then La Jolla. Well. I don't think I ever said it out loud... I just figured out eventually that La Hoya was La Jolla. I'm sure there are others.
The SoCal ones are Spanish. Which? Threw me for a massive loop in the Pacific Northwest where things go a little more Native American.
I do the dog head tilt thing a lot, actually.
I know the basic rules of Spanish. Why the Willamette rhymes with "Dang nabbit?" I will never know.
I just figured out eventually that La Hoya was La Jolla.It's logic though. J sounds like H and two Ls are a Y.
Yeah, this makes sense to me...
Yeah - I just didn't remember the jo combo in Spanish much, so it threw me, I guess. I'd heard the name a lot, but I never would've spelled that way before I actually saw it spelled. Then again, my hometown is Hockessin, and I forget that it's not obvious how to pronounce it. So.
How does one say Hockessin???
I admit, my stuff was weird. It just makes sense on a gut level to me cause it always was...