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.
Early: Where'd she go? Simon: I can't keep track of her when she's not incorporeally possessing a space ship. Don't look at me.
'Objects In Space'
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.
Connie Neil - Aug 21, 2007 5:05:20 am PDT #5827 of 10001
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beekaytee - Aug 21, 2007 5:11:54 am PDT #5828 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
MO-jayve
boggles
The whatnow?
sumi - Aug 21, 2007 5:13:30 am PDT #5829 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
I wonder if they're related to the actual Illinoisans who insist on pronouncing the "s" at and end of the state's name and have you heard how Goethe, Paulina and Devon are pronounced in Chicago?
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2007 5:15:05 am PDT #5830 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Also, San Francisco is not pronounced "Frisco."
When people do pronounce it that way, I think it's OK to hit them.
beekaytee - Aug 21, 2007 5:15:15 am PDT #5831 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
There is more than one way to pronounce Devon?
Daisy Jane - Aug 21, 2007 5:18:23 am PDT #5832 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Frisco is a suburb of Dallas. SAN FRANCISCO is my second favorite city ever.
Fred Pete - Aug 21, 2007 5:21:25 am PDT #5833 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
Frisco is a suburb of Dallas.
Also, a town near Cape Hatteras.
shrift - Aug 21, 2007 5:22:49 am PDT #5834 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Isn't Devon pronounced duh-VAHN in Chicago?
Spent yesterday in bed. Still feel like crap. Now addicted to Korean TV show about a coffee shop.
tommyrot - Aug 21, 2007 5:24:31 am PDT #5835 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Isn't Devon pronounced duh-VAHN in Chicago?
Yep.
When I use the word, I have to stop and think whether I'm talking about the street or my (ex)cat. (Senor was a Devon Rex.)
sumi - Aug 21, 2007 5:24:32 am PDT #5836 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
What shrift said.
Paulina - long "i" on the second syllable.
Goethe - pronounce Go-thee (more or less)