But...it's not even *spelled* chipoLte.
My grandfather could never pronounce Chick-Fil-A. It always came out "Chick-a-fil."
However, he could say "catfish fillet" just fine.
Raise your hand if 'ew.'
Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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dcp - Jan 23, 2009 4:16:33 pm PST #8839 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
JZ - Jan 23, 2009 4:16:36 pm PST #8840 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Aw, juliana! Our door is always open to you (obviously, we made it home by now), but how are you doing with the Death Flu?
Sophia Brooks - Jan 23, 2009 4:20:58 pm PST #8841 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I am so sorry for your loss askye. I am giving my kitty some extra cuddles.
My mother cannot say Vietnam or salsa. She somehow puts a million extra vowels in them (and we are from Western NY). So it is vee-a-AT-nam and saaw- all- SUH. Drives me nuts. And I do somehow draw the line between accents and just saying the wrong word, like Chi-pol-te.
Of course, I can't pronounce many words that I see mostly in writing. I just found out today that I was saying proselytize wrong.
beekaytee - Jan 23, 2009 4:22:21 pm PST #8842 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant
My stepmother used to say em-BOYD-ree for embroidery. I could never figure out how she got that.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 23, 2009 4:28:53 pm PST #8843 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
When I was younger I used to get after my mother because she could never remember the names of famous people, books, or movies, and would either make up names or use a name that is close but not quite. For example, she calls the movie White Nights, "Knights in White Satin". But now I do the exact same thing. When we were doing the play "Accidental Death of an Anarchist", I kept calling it "Accidental Tourist". Now we are doing a play called "The Hairy Dutchman" and I keep saying "The Flying Dutchman" or "The Hairy Ape".
Hil R. - Jan 23, 2009 4:30:29 pm PST #8844 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just found out today that I was saying proselytize wrong.
Now I'm all paranoid. pros-SELL-li-tize? pros-sell-li-TIZE? I can't even figure out how I say it now.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 23, 2009 4:33:06 pm PST #8845 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was pronouncing it with a prose instead of a pros.
JenP - Jan 23, 2009 4:45:18 pm PST #8846 of 10000
I say PROSS-luh-tize. But the dictionary tells me you can also say PROSS-suh-luh-tize. Only not with my phonetics-on-the-fly.
Steph L. - Jan 23, 2009 5:00:43 pm PST #8847 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I just found out today that I was saying proselytize wrong.
I won't say how old I was when I realized that "draught" was pronounced "draft."
Or that "segway" was that weird word "segue" I kept seeing.
(No, really. Pretty fucking old. High school, I think. "Epitome" might fall in that Age of Enlightenment as well.)
Laga - Jan 23, 2009 5:01:57 pm PST #8848 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I used to think Dos Equis and Doseckis were two different types of beer.