Still a question: damask, DAM-isk or Duh-MAHSK or Duh-MASK? (Go DAM-isk, choose DAM-isk!)
I say it like Damascus.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2004 9:33:46 am PST #1424 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Susan W. - Mar 17, 2004 9:37:32 am PST #1425 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
When I was very, very little, I thought babies were born with unbiblical cords. But that was a case of having heard the word but not read it rather than the other way around.
Jessica - Mar 17, 2004 9:43:19 am PST #1426 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Meem, juliana.
Pix - Mar 17, 2004 9:52:30 am PST #1427 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
I had a very embarrassing incident with the word facade in 7th grade or so....
In 7th grade, reading aloud from a science textbook, I (repeatedly) pronounced "organism" minus one very important syllable. This did not assist my efforts to be thought of as "cool".
The worst part was watching the teacher. He was giggling too hard to catch his breath long enough to stop and correct me.
Strix - Mar 17, 2004 9:54:17 am PST #1428 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
DAM-ask and AHG-el, FWIW.
And my word was "frappe." I pronounced it "FRAP." Which produced gales of laughter from my friend who had had French.
I deserved it, though; I'm a habitual corrector of pronounciation. I try to do it gently, but payback's a bitch.
Consuela - Mar 17, 2004 9:55:25 am PST #1429 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Erin, be not embarrassed.
Frappes in New England are pronounced, "frap". At least, they are if you're talking about a very thick milk shake.
Mmm, now I want a Fribble.
juliana - Mar 17, 2004 9:56:40 am PST #1430 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Thank you, PMoon.
And my word was "frappe." I pronounced it "FRAP."
You're not alone. Almost everyone in MN pronounces it "frap". I thought it was common. "Hot dish" for "casserole", now....
erikaj - Mar 17, 2004 10:00:02 am PST #1431 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
heh...half my homework in the seventh grade had "orgasm" on it cause my notetaker wasn't very smart. But I got embarrassed trying to correct it.
Vortex - Mar 17, 2004 10:02:24 am PST #1432 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
"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.)
I did that, too. I was a bit younger, and asked my mother if whores dovers were the same as Hors d'ouevres.
Polgara - Mar 17, 2004 10:06:07 am PST #1433 of 10002
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Mine was awry. Which I pronounced as aw-ree until sometime in high school. At least, I hope it was h.s. I have a vague recollection it was my friend Lee who finally corrected me, which would've made it college.
This was mine too, only just when I was reading it. I knew how to pronounce the word "awry" without ever connecting it to that ow-rie word I was always reading in books, until one day, when I was in my 20s, someone asked me how to spell "awry" (in its proper pronunciation), and I had the inevitable "omigod" moment.