Why do I think the book is My Ann-toe-NEE-ya, when I think the name IRL is Ann-TOE-nee-ya?
Because you're right.
And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.
Giles ,'Touched'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
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.
Dana - Jan 07, 2009 9:52:52 am PST #9867 of 10002
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
tommyrot - Jan 07, 2009 9:53:02 am PST #9868 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I went to school with a girl named Bobette. Guess what her dad's name was. I dare ya.
Fett?
Jesse - Jan 07, 2009 9:53:15 am PST #9869 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Because that's how it's pronounced in the book.
Ha HA!
DavidS - Jan 07, 2009 9:54:14 am PST #9870 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Is it spelled phonetically at some point?
I'm not sure. I think the teacher made a point of explaining the proper pronounciation for a Czech (Bohemian?) girl of that time. Also I guess it's spelled with an accent: My Ántonia.
amych - Jan 07, 2009 9:55:06 am PST #9871 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Book-Antonia is with an accent on the "i".
edit: or maybe I'm misremembering where the accent is. But there is one, I swears it!
Steph L. - Jan 07, 2009 9:57:09 am PST #9872 of 10002
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I went to school with a girl named Bobette. Guess what her dad's name was. I dare ya.
My eldest aunt is Paulette. Same reason. (Grandpa named Bob.) (No, I kid. His name was Paul, although we called him Boomer.)
DavidS - Jan 07, 2009 9:57:18 am PST #9873 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
edit: or maybe I'm misremembering where the accent is. But there is one, I swears it!
I'm cutting and pasting from Wikipedia so I hope somebody's vetted the accent.
Vet the accents, dammit!
javachik - Jan 07, 2009 9:58:24 am PST #9874 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
Paulette is one of the few "ette" names I like. Probably because I think of Paulette Goddard.
Calli - Jan 07, 2009 9:58:42 am PST #9875 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I had an Emmett for a college roommate
Fred, is this the same Emmett I knew who fell through an uncovered manhole? (No porn intended. There was an open manhole in the street and this guy in college named Emmett fell through it one night.)
I could have been named "Hulda" after one grandmother. I could have been named "Eda" (not bad, but rife with teasing potential for a fat kid like me) after the other grandmother. Dad's mom was quite unhappy that they didn't name me "Henrika" after her mother. Thankfully, my parents named me "Heather Rae," just before the great in-Heather-ation of the US girl children.
amych - Jan 07, 2009 9:59:14 am PST #9876 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I knew a guy named Glenn who was really looking forward to having a son and calling him Glenn, Jr. So he named his daughter Glennys.
(He also -- rightly -- pointed out that it could be worse, he could be George Foreman.)