St. John Ffeatherstonehaugh. Now, that's a name.
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My favorite is Chartres because everyone wants it to be pronounced the French way.
To be honest, I'm still unclear on that one. I tend to mumble it if I need to say it.
Right, on Mad Men?
Jane Eyre!
Jane Eyre!
lord I love me some buffista brains.
Jane Eyre!
Pronouced Eye-ray.
Or Throatwarblermangrove.
Char-ters, but usually once you've factored in the accent it tends to be more along the lines of CHAW-das.
The name St. John only made sense to me when I imagined the speaker Francophiling it.
When I was in grad school, I was a participant in a linguistics grad student's study. I don't know how it came out, but I essentially had to talk to her for an hour and she asked me where I was from and where my parents were from.
I am certain I had (have?) a set of fucked up pronunciations because I speak in part slang/part west coast/part southern/part east coast. And my slang is all over the place from different ethnicities (I literally will say "bomb diggety" and "chisme" in the same sentence).
I guarantee I'm pronouncing stuff wrong and probably do so on a daily basis.
My favorite word to mispronounce?
allegory. I know how to pronounce it, but I will mispronounce it like nobody's bidness. All the time.
I also mispronounced a lot of British words but that's their fucking fault. "Gloucester" is Gloster? Fuck you for tricking me on purpose, England! "Worcestshire" is Wurstersheer? WTF?
I totally argued with javachik on the spelling of Gloucester. I was like, "It's totally pronounced the way it's spelled!" which it sort of is, if you agree that "glouce" would be pronounced "gloss."
if you agree that "glouce" would be pronounced "gloss."
Finishing putting on your lip glouce and we'll talk about it.