Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.

'Conviction (1)'


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.


§ ita § - Mar 23, 2011 12:09:23 pm PDT #29923 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I thought dilemma was dilemna for the longest time, and pronounced it that way. It's only the etymology that keeps me honest these days.


Ginger - Mar 23, 2011 12:14:11 pm PDT #29924 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I probably would have garbled segue, except that it was one of the few words I remember hearing before seeing. I hung out with radio people in college who would punch from station to station just to hear the segueways between songs. In my youth, 50 minutes of music every hour would have constituted the dreadful sin of dead segueing. I miss someone telling me what the song is, and I would like to whack someone with my cane about it.

My theory is that any commonly used regional pronunciation is not wrong, and place names are pronounced the way the people who live there pronounce them. I'm not really eager for the day when we all talk like the man on the 6 o'clock news.


§ ita § - Mar 23, 2011 12:20:18 pm PDT #29925 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

the segueways

I was just about to cite this as the biggest argument I got into about spelling/pronunciation in university. K just wouldn't accept that it would be pronounced segwayway. For someone who knew French, I just didn't get it.


smonster - Mar 23, 2011 12:41:09 pm PDT #29926 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Schuykill, Conshohocken, Bala Cynwyd, Manayunk, Gladwyne... growing up in Philly will mess you up.

I can pronounce all of these correctly!

I still have a lot of words I can spell but not say, but can't think of them right now.


Kathy A - Mar 23, 2011 12:41:20 pm PDT #29927 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I was just using my new iPod touch to try and take a video of my cat in one of her frequent meowing moments, but she immediately shut up as soon as I turned the thing on. Then, I switched the cameras to see what I look like in motion. OMG, my sister was right--I look a hell of a lot like my Grandma A!! Here's hoping that more weight loss will remove the flap of fat in the middle of my neck, and the hair coloring I'm planning on doing next month will make me look a lot younger.


Strix - Mar 23, 2011 12:45:36 pm PDT #29928 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Frappe. I pronounced it "frap."

Colonel "CALL-o-nel"

chauffeur (in a Trixie Belden book!) -- CHAAFER

And England was an nightmare the first month:

The "THAMES" = Tymes

LESTER Square I said LIEchester (for Leicester)

GLOSTERshyre for GLOSSteshure (Gloustershire)

WorCHEST-er-shyre for WOOSteshure(Worchestershire)


Consuela - Mar 23, 2011 12:54:07 pm PDT #29929 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Frappe. I pronounced it "frap."

That's how it's pronounced! If you're talking about a thick ice cream shake in New England, anyway.


Sophia Brooks - Mar 23, 2011 12:57:19 pm PDT #29930 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I think I just realised that my family pronounces the sauce Worchester as Wistasheer because of a combined Massachusetts/Rochester accent


Sue - Mar 23, 2011 1:13:52 pm PDT #29931 of 30001
hip deep in pie

dilemna

Oooh, that's one that caught me too.

You guys, I got home to two messages from my sister calling from my mom's house. I called and my mom answered. All she said was "Maurice," the name of her cat and she started crying. I guess he had some kind of turn today...my mom found him drooling and trembling, and having peed on the floor. She took him to the vet and they diagnosed him with congestive heart failure, and my mom had him put to sleep. My poor mom is heartbroken.


Sue - Mar 23, 2011 1:14:40 pm PDT #29932 of 30001
hip deep in pie

Wistasheer

That's how my Newfoundlander mother pronounces it too.