There's a French show jumper whose first name is Penelope.
But it is actually pronounced: Penny lop.
So confusing.
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
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.
sumi - Mar 23, 2011 11:37:41 am PDT #29908 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
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!!!
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.
DavidS - Mar 23, 2011 11:48:36 am PDT #29914 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
Right, and then you've got Key West, which really is to the West but the name actually derives from Cayo Hueso, or Island of the Bones.
Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2011 11:51:09 am PDT #29915 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Rare Hartmann's Mountain Zebra born at the Blackpool Zoo.
Handsome little guy!
erikaj - Mar 23, 2011 11:53:58 am PDT #29916 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
My grandma's from Illinois...she says "warsh" And "pap" for "pop" and "Earika" (Phoenix has the most transplanted Chicagoans outside of Chicago.) So it makes me laugh when in romance novels we all talk like...prospectors or something.) In small towns, maybe.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 11:55:01 am PDT #29917 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My grandfather said "warsh," and he was from east Texas. But my grandmother doesn't, I don't think, and she's from the same place.