I get all mispronouncing when I'm tired, too. Also, when I'm excited, I start talking really fast and a bit louder, so words might tumble out in mangled fashion more under such circumstances.
But my sister and mom still haven't given up needling me for the time we were driving to New England for our 1982 vacation, and I was waking up from a nap in the backseat to see fields of cows on the side of the road. In my half-asleep mumble, I said, "Look, horses!" They still, to this day, point out cows in fields and say, "Oh, look, Kathy--horses!"
I was so tickled by a common southern (mis)pronunciation of words like UMbrella and INsurance when I lived there that I have trouble sometimes dropping them.
The word is pronounced REE-search, and I'll cut anybody who says I'm wrong.
(The Mason-Dixon Line was 7 miles south of my house. We drove over it and back to get to my middle school. So?)
a little feel-better-soon~ma for Raq wouldn't be misplaced right now.
well this explains why the quartet sounded so good at inauguration:
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just because you have a shiny newish Mac, doesn't mean you have unlimited processing power. If you are editing a large file in a processor whore application like Digital Performer with lots of virtual instruments, you might want to quit: iChat, screen share, Entourage, Firefox, Word, Excel, and I couldn't tell what the other icons were. It might be why you randomly crash. Like when Microsoft apps go to the library to perform background tasks whether or not you want to use them at that moment. IJS. Small suggestion. k. thnx. bye.
Having just cleaned the kitchen, here is what I think about President Obama:
He is the human version of a Mr. Clean Magic Eraser.
(Yes, the Magic Eraser is magic. It just cleaned the foulest stovetop ever to be seen in a kitchen. And I include frat houses.)
Also, when I picked up my comics today, my comic-book guy told me he had a dream that Obama changed his (comic-book guy's) car's transmission fluid. We agreed that he may well fix the world in his first 100 days and then spend the rest of his term traveling around the country doing odd jobs for people.
"Is that a couch you're moving? Let me grab the end!"
"Cleaning your gutters? I have a ladder!"
"Need a fourth for euchre? I *never* trump my partner's ace!"
VEE-HICK-EL was the one that always got me.
So now, of course, I have Bush saying just that going through my head on a loop.
I wish it to stop.
It's funny you say that, Steph--I just saw this a few minutes ago:
After Inauguration Day, departed presidents usually become footnotes pretty quickly. What we are witnessing now is far more dramatic. It's closer to a liquidation, or a cauterization. George W. Bush is being turned into an unperson, like a character out of Orwell. It's been only two days, and there is scarcely a trace of not only his personal presence, but of his policies. Or at least that is the impression Barack Obama would like to convey.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Southern way of saying "Chimley" for chimney. Oh and "ele'm" for eleven.
My high educated father still says chimley. He also asks for a Co'cola.
I have a problem pronouncing "perpetuity" which sucks because some days I have to say it about 10 times. Actually I'm getting better.
oooh and tripartite that's another that trips me up at work.
VEE-HICK-EL was the one that always got me.
I never heard it pronounced any other way as a kid. I always feel a little bit like I'm betraying my ancestry when I don't use that pronunciation.
