No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?

Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Steph L. - Apr 30, 2010 6:51:33 am PDT #26463 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I will wait for megan to arrive and point out that "Cheviot" would not be pronounced that way in actual French. Faux-French may have different rules.

Heh. That's why I said faux-French. It's just a deliberate goofy butchering of it.


flea - Apr 30, 2010 6:54:25 am PDT #26464 of 30001
information libertarian

I hope we can agree the Du Bois bookstore is pronounced "Dew Boys."


Amy - Apr 30, 2010 6:55:31 am PDT #26465 of 30001
Because books.

That's like the nuh-VAD-a that people in NV apparently say.

How else would you pronounce Nevada?

I think Cheviot would be something like "chev-yo" in French, but my teachers always said my accent was pretty faux-French, so.


Jesse - Apr 30, 2010 6:57:28 am PDT #26466 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Nuh-VAH-duh. It's the flat A vs. AH.


Connie Neil - Apr 30, 2010 6:58:54 am PDT #26467 of 30001
brillig

There is a town here in Utah called Eureka. Pronounced YUR-uh-ka.

And Hurricane is HER-uh-kun, slurred as much as possible to 2 syllables. I suspect the founders were related.


Steph L. - Apr 30, 2010 7:13:22 am PDT #26468 of 30001
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I hope we can agree the Du Bois bookstore is pronounced "Dew Boys."

Absolutely! (After all, I live in a state with a town named Versailles, pronounced Ver-SALES.)


Cashmere - Apr 30, 2010 7:13:52 am PDT #26469 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.

My nephew has decided to go to college at ETSU and follow his Bluegrass music dream. I don't suppose anyone here is anywhere near Johnson City, TN?

tiggy's in Nashville. I also have a friend from high school living in Nashville--her husband is in the industry.


smonster - Apr 30, 2010 7:14:44 am PDT #26470 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Kate P's in Nashville, too. With her FEE-ahn-say.


megan walker - Apr 30, 2010 7:17:54 am PDT #26471 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

I will wait for megan to arrive and point out that "Cheviot" would not be pronounced that way in actual French. Faux-French may have different rules.

Hah! I was just contemplating this and had decided to refrain.

I think Cheviot would be something like "chev-yo" in French

And then Amy did my work for me.

Thanks for picking up the slack while I was walking to work!


smonster - Apr 30, 2010 7:18:03 am PDT #26472 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Though, actually, checking a map, it's only slightly farther to where I live than to Nashville. And only an hour to Asheville, NC, which is lovely.