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.)
Simon: Captain... why did you come back for us? Mal: You're on my crew. Simon: Yeah, but you don't even like me. Why'd you come back? Mal: You're on my crew. Why we still talking about this?
'Safe'
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.
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.
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)
Frankenbuddha - Aug 21, 2007 5:26:01 am PDT #5837 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Also, San Francisco is not pronounced "Frisco."
Right, it's pronounced "Fresno".
runs away
shrift - Aug 21, 2007 5:26:31 am PDT #5838 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Goethe is the one that really makes me weep. Like the way people pronounce Ponce de Leon in Atlanta.
beekaytee - Aug 21, 2007 5:26:33 am PDT #5839 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
No kidding...huh. Language...what a crazy patchwork thing.
beekaytee - Aug 21, 2007 5:27:15 am PDT #5840 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
Ponk duh Lion?
eta: Then again, in Ohio, I heard Troussant pronouced Two-sang.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2007 5:40:44 am PDT #5841 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My personal favorite is Havre de Grace, Maryland -- HAY-ver duh GRACE.
Sue - Aug 21, 2007 5:45:33 am PDT #5842 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Havre de Grace
There's a place in NS named Havre Boucher and the locals pronounce it "Harver Bushy."
Other great mangled pronunciations: Port Mouton = Port Ma-TOON, L'ardoise=LORD-ways
There is one place in NS that I have no idea how to pronounce: Necum Teuch. It's just down the road from Ecum Secum (EEK-um SEEK-um).
Ginger - Aug 21, 2007 5:51:36 am PDT #5843 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Atlanta Ponce de Leon = pahnce de lee'-on
shrift - Aug 21, 2007 5:55:24 am PDT #5844 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Because of where I grew up, I have an aptitude for pronouncing Indian place names and Polish surnames. Ypsilanti and Dowagiac and Wisniewski and Majewski!