I am not...I am not the damsel in distress. I am not some case. I have to work this. I've lived in a cave for 5 years in a world where they killed my kind like cattle. I am not going to be cut down by some monster flu. I am better than that. What a wonder...how very scared I am.

Fred ,'A Hole in the World'


Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


meara - Jan 19, 2015 2:40:33 pm PST #15943 of 30002

I think I would probably avoid satiety in favor of changing my sentence around to not pronounce it! Then again, I have to fudge the pronunciation of lots of medical words--sometimes no one really knows how these drugs are supposed to be pronounced anyway!


Steph L. - Jan 19, 2015 2:41:37 pm PST #15944 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

sometimes no one really knows how these drugs are supposed to be pronounced anyway!

Fluoroquinolone! t edit P-C once wrote me a haiku with the word "fluoroquinolone" when I contributed to his 826 Valencia spelling bee. It was a good haiku.


Cass - Jan 19, 2015 2:41:47 pm PST #15945 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

What other pronunciations are there for "ancient"? AYN-chint.

Ank, like ankle, shent.

There were times, basically whenever he said it, that I thought it might be a legitimate reason to break up with my ex. But then I heard it elsewhere.


Steph L. - Jan 19, 2015 2:43:40 pm PST #15946 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

Tim pronounces "known" as 2 definite syllables: "know-uhn." It still throws me every time. And sometimes I catch myself doing it.


SailAweigh - Jan 19, 2015 2:45:50 pm PST #15947 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

And don't the Brits say AYN-see-ent? Don't know if that counts, though, there's a lot of differences between USian English and British English.


Connie Neil - Jan 19, 2015 2:45:51 pm PST #15948 of 30002
brillig

Ank, like ankle, shent.

That's a new one.


EpicTangent - Jan 19, 2015 2:46:24 pm PST #15949 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

According to Dictionary.com and the MacMillan Contemporary Dictionary on my desk, your ex (and whoever else) are wrong. You're right. Ank? You're SOOOO right.


beekaytee - Jan 19, 2015 2:47:00 pm PST #15950 of 30002
Compassionately intolerant

Ank, like ankle, shent.

Whuh?

I've never heard anyone say it that way. Not even in ain-she-ent times.

AYN-see-ent?

Heh. My people are from the Isles. Problee where I got it.


EpicTangent - Jan 19, 2015 2:48:47 pm PST #15951 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

And don't the Brits say AYN-see-ent?

This I could let pass. I speak some Spanish, so I can see this pronunciation making sense. But "K"? Nope, Cass is right, he was wrong. Nuh-uh.


erikaj - Jan 19, 2015 2:49:01 pm PST #15952 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!

Askye, that's cool. There are so many words like that, that I know from books but don't know how to say. I usually just wait for Keith Olbermann to say them, though since he's back in sports, even he doesn't he doesn't bust out $18 ones quite so much...$16.50 maybe.