Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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.
Ugh. I've been at work for 20 minutes, and there's an email conversation from last night that I don't want to read, and a voicemail message that I don't want to hear.
And now the person I don't want to deal with this morning has just walked in. I suspect he'll be coming over to my cube soon.
Scola, you need to make a camouflage cubicle curtain with an empty chair.
With all this pronounciation discussion, I'm surprised nobody has pointed out that there's no such place as New Or-LEENZ. Or-LEENZ Parish, yes. But the city is New OR-lunz, New (or N') AW-lunz, or (for the old school) New OR-lee-unz.
Oh, and I also have only ever heard WAW-keh-shaw for the town where I had my first job.
I'm surprised nobody has pointed out that there's no such place as New Or-LEENZ.
It's a pretty useful Yankee detector.
Scola, you need to make a camouflage cubicle curtain with an empty chair.
That is so awesome.
Somehow, even after I lived there for four years, no one in my family can pronounce New Orleans properly. They all either say New Or-LEENZ or a clearly-jokey N'Awlins. I don't know what's so difficult about New OR-linz, but none of them can remember it.
Interesting article about the downtown Houston tunnel system: [link]
Hey, Dana, I might be in Houston for work in October, FYI.
Oooh!
Please tell me everyone knows how to pronounce Mojave. As in, three syllables, not two, Mo-HA-ve, not MO-jayve. I knew how to pronounce that before I moved out West, but I've heard many an Easterner use the MO-jayve pronounciation.