I sometimes refuse to pronounce things the way the locals do, which is why you probably will never hear me refer to a creek as a 'crick' even in backwoods Michigan.
Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.
Wash ,'Serenity'
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.
shrift - Aug 21, 2007 7:16:50 am PDT #5876 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Gudanov - Aug 21, 2007 7:21:29 am PDT #5877 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Way to stick it to the man with the linguistic disobedience.
brenda m - Aug 21, 2007 7:22:05 am PDT #5878 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
It is kind of weird what things you expect correct pronunciation for.
Like, tortilla is weird and wrong pronounced tor-till-a, but yah-mah rather than lah-mah sounds pretentious. (Never did learn all those pronunciation marks.)
Cashmere - Aug 21, 2007 7:23:19 am PDT #5879 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Is he excited about it?
Hard to tell. We're trying to not get him too hyped up about it because he's still not potty trained (one of the requirements) and, although the director said they could "work with us" on that issue, I've yet to know what that means. They could give us a week or two to work it out or they could give us a month.
We meet the teacher on Monday morning, have parent orientation Monday night and he's supposed to start on Wednesday. If I think about it too much, I get terrified.
Susan W. - Aug 21, 2007 7:24:34 am PDT #5880 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
When I was living in England, I used to regularly walk down Belvoir Street on my way to work. One day I was menaced by a large, angry dog (seriously, I thought I was going to be mauled), and I described the incident to a friend.
Her: Where did you say this happened?
Me: Belvoir (Bel-vwahr) Street
Her (baffled): Where?
Me: You know. (describes location of street)
Her: Spell it.
Me: (spells)
Her (enlightenment dawning): Oh! Beaver Street.
Out here we've got Sequim (Skwim), where DH and I are going for our anniversary this year. Also Puyallup (Pyew-AL-up, I think--I still stumble over it). And it was awhile before I realized that the Lake shell-ANN I heard people talking about was the same as the Lake Chelan I saw written out--for some reason I thought that was CHAY-lun.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2007 7:25:24 am PDT #5881 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Needless to say, my boss is still in her meeting, and I'm about to die of hunger.
P.M. Marc - Aug 21, 2007 7:32:27 am PDT #5882 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Steilacoom tends to give non-natives trouble. No idea if Hoquium or Quilcene do.
Gudanov - Aug 21, 2007 7:32:48 am PDT #5883 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
We're trying to not get him too hyped up about it because he's still not potty trained
Good luck with that. Potty training was a lot of work with our daughter, but a breeze with our son (probably because he had a big sister as a model).
sumi - Aug 21, 2007 7:35:12 am PDT #5884 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Hee. I knew that Belvoir was pronounced "beaver" - - due to some horse related thing. Possibly a horse and hound related thing.
P.M. Marc - Aug 21, 2007 7:38:15 am PDT #5885 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Hee. Sumi, for horse-related reasons, Belvoir = Beaver would confuse me, due to Vann and Howard Belvoir (bellvwor).