Excuse me? Who gave you permission to exist?

Cordelia ,'Beneath You'


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.


Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 11:24:42 am PDT #29904 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

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."


DavidS - Mar 23, 2011 11:26:48 am PDT #29905 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

if you agree that "glouce" would be pronounced "gloss."

Finishing putting on your lip glouce and we'll talk about it.


Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 11:28:10 am PDT #29906 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

I'm just saying!


shrift - Mar 23, 2011 11:34:33 am PDT #29907 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Teeth-ma released. Dentist praised my extremely healthy teeth, and told me I'd probably never get a cavity.


sumi - Mar 23, 2011 11:37:41 am PDT #29908 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

There's a French show jumper whose first name is Penelope.

But it is actually pronounced: Penny lop.

So confusing.


Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2011 11:43:10 am PDT #29909 of 30001
brillig

I am well familiar with "the crick that runs up the holler," AKA, "the creek that runs up the hollow". Shout out, Southwestern Pennsylvania!

Here in Utah there's a town called Eureka. It is not pronounced the way a Greek philosopher in a bath would pronounce it. In Utah, it is "YER-icka." And the town of Hurricane is "HER-eh-kin."


sumi - Mar 23, 2011 11:43:20 am PDT #29910 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!

Rare Hartmann's Mountain Zebra born at the Blackpool Zoo.

So adorable and stripey.


Consuela - Mar 23, 2011 11:45:12 am PDT #29911 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I love the fact that California has both the town of Eureka and the town of Yreka, and they are definitely pronounced differently.


Consuela - Mar 23, 2011 11:45:48 am PDT #29912 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

But I still don't understand why Oregon has the towns of Bend and North Bend, and North Bend is many miles southwest of Bend.

t scratches head


JZ - Mar 23, 2011 11:47:30 am PDT #29913 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

I think I may possibly have not ever mispronounced anything but some of the place names and St. John (totally Jane Eyre), but that's only because I really am morbidly shy and spent my entire childhood never talking enough to get caught out mispronouncing much of anything.

My grandfather did "warsh" for "wash," for reasons that nobody ever understood as he was a born-and-raised Oakland son of Oakland natives. My poor grandmother embarrassed herself horribly writing a post-wedding thank you note to their East Coast cousins the Warshers but addressing it to the Washers, thinking she was fixing his weird language glitch.