Newark NJ is NEW-erk. Newark DE is New-Ark. I've heard Newark NJ get slurred to something like NEW-uck or NEW-ick, but never Nerk.
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Hil R. - Apr 07, 2010 11:49:29 am PDT #21544 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Amy - Apr 07, 2010 11:49:41 am PDT #21545 of 30001
Because books.
Snerk.
Hil, I rode trains in and out of that station for years. Believe me, it's closer to Nerk than New-erk.
There's a reason it's sometimes called Down Neck.
msbelle - Apr 07, 2010 11:57:18 am PDT #21546 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
in Texas near where I grew up there was a Newark pronounced NEW-ARK.
Hil R. - Apr 07, 2010 12:03:31 pm PDT #21547 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil, I rode trains in and out of that station for years. Believe me, it's closer to Nerk than New-erk.
Nerk sounds really weird to me -- I'm trying to think of all the ways that seem like a way I've heard, and all of them have the oo sound in there somewhere.
Hil R. - Apr 07, 2010 12:07:48 pm PDT #21548 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I tried googling Newark and Nerk to see what I got, and just about every reference to pronouncing it Nerk is for the one in Ohio.
Amy - Apr 07, 2010 12:13:27 pm PDT #21549 of 30001
Because books.
Well, I grew up twenty miles from there and rode in and out of that station for years, Hil, and the way I heard it always had very little, if any, "oo" sound. Not that it really matters.
Hil R. - Apr 07, 2010 12:14:16 pm PDT #21550 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Well, I grew up twenty miles from there and rode in and out of that station for years, Hil
As did I.
Not that it really matters.
Yeah.
§ ita § - Apr 07, 2010 12:33:04 pm PDT #21551 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
And then when I comprehended it, all I could think was, "weremonkey."
Don't make me snort at work. It's not professional.
Would it be okay, hivemind, to wear a denim skirt to work on casual Friday? Jeans are okay, and people wear t-shirts, which I would never do, and running shoes, which I also wouldn't.
Just had an all-IT meeting. Did the demographics. Over 50 people, 8 women. 4 black people, two women, two men. What a minority I am.
CIO used two pop culture slides in her presentation, including one Lost reference. One day I will slip in Princess Bride or Buffy or Batman. Or maybe I won't.
Polter-Cow - Apr 07, 2010 12:38:51 pm PDT #21552 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I used a bunch of Buffy sound clips in my English presentations in high school. I mean, come on, we were talking about Machiavelli; I had to invoke Giles and Xander.
Cass - Apr 07, 2010 12:38:57 pm PDT #21553 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
If jeans are okay, then a denim skirt is totally acceptable.