I think I just realised that my family pronounces the sauce Worchester as Wistasheer because of a combined Massachusetts/Rochester accent
Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.
'Serenity'
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.
Sophia Brooks - Mar 23, 2011 12:57:19 pm PDT #29930 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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.
Sheryl - Mar 23, 2011 1:26:59 pm PDT #29933 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Ok, where did the warm weather go? The hyacinths are going to be so confused...
billytea - Mar 23, 2011 1:32:49 pm PDT #29934 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
But in French, segue would just be pronounced "seg". That's the mistake I always made, assuming it was French-derived. It's two syllables because it's derived from Italian.
Scrappy - Mar 23, 2011 1:32:50 pm PDT #29935 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I am so sorry, Sue.
Sue - Mar 23, 2011 1:40:04 pm PDT #29936 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Thanks Scrappy. I really feel for my mom. Emotional upset really makes her confused, and it all happened so suddenly, so I think she's having a bit of a hard time taking it all in.
I did something silly tonight, but that would probably make my Nanny Power proud. My local Bay dept store is closing, and everything is discounted. So I bought two gold silk drapery panels even though I have no use for them, because they were $15 each and SILK! There was a gorgeous oyster coloured silk panel there, but only one, or I would have totally bought that too.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 1:40:09 pm PDT #29937 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, Sue, so sad! Time for another Serious Talk with my cat.
Sue - Mar 23, 2011 1:46:05 pm PDT #29938 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Time for another Serious Talk with my cat.
I have already had that talk with both mine. And I told Oz that he's going to have to lose a few pounds too.
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2011 1:46:25 pm PDT #29939 of 30001
brillig
I figured out why the Segway is spelled the way it is when I realized it was the phonetic version of segue, which is the word for a transition from one thing to another, or from one place to another. I felt so smart, like when I figured out a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" question that "karaoke" means "empty orchestra" because it has the same first syllable as "karate,", which means "empty hand."
I may have been a bit insufferably smug about that.