cha-ose. Long O.
Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.
Buffy ,'Sleeper'
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Betsy HP - Mar 17, 2004 7:46:36 am PST #1405 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
amych - Mar 17, 2004 7:48:48 am PST #1406 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I somehow managed to get "chaos" right, and still derive "chow-tic" from it.
Deena - Mar 17, 2004 7:49:54 am PST #1407 of 10002
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
How funny. My embarrassing incident was fuh-KADE in 7th grade, and Greg's was chowse. It's nice to be in such good company.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2004 7:50:16 am PST #1408 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"misled" = meye-zzld. A word totally unrelated (in my head) to the past tense of "to mislead."
Steph L. - Mar 17, 2004 7:51:18 am PST #1409 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
And then there's "epitome" (ep-i-tome) and "Penelope" (pen-e-lope).
Evil words.
amych - Mar 17, 2004 7:54:40 am PST #1410 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
"misled" = meye-zzld.
Silly girl. Don't you know it's pronounced "mizz-ld"?
Megan E. - Mar 17, 2004 7:55:43 am PST #1411 of 10002
I thought it was my-sled.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2004 7:57:56 am PST #1412 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"Panache" (pan-a-shay) and "hors d'oeuvres" (not-a-clue) gave me trouble until I hit college. (I knew what hors d'oeuvres were, it just never occured to me that that unpronounceable word might be them.)
And because the firsts blog memes I encountered were those long lists of "My favorite color is... / my favorite song is... / etc," I assumed that "meme" was short for "mememememememe." It took several months for me to wonder if maybe this word "meme" that looked exactly like that other word "meme" (which I already knew) might, in fact, be that word.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2004 7:59:17 am PST #1413 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
amych is right. I misle, you misle, he misles.
Didn't get clear of that one until University. At which point I mentioned it to my sister who was also chagrined, because she'd be doing the same thing.
Which reminds me -- is "ogle" really pronounce ogg-le? In the UK too?
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Steph L. - Mar 17, 2004 8:01:15 am PST #1414 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Which reminds me -- is "ogle" really pronounce ogg-le?
I've always pronounced it "oh-gle."