Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.

Xander ,'Lessons'


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."


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.


Vortex - Mar 17, 2004 10:13:31 am PST #1434 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Oh, I also pronounced vapid as vaypid. So, it was almost ironic that I mispronounced it when I used it. There I was being all erudite and proclaiming something vaypid, and I was mispronouncing.


Jessica - Mar 17, 2004 10:14:35 am PST #1435 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

There I was being all erudite and proclaiming something vaypid, and I was mispronouncing.

But, more importantly, how were you pronouncing "erudite"?


Steph L. - Mar 17, 2004 10:16:40 am PST #1436 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Heh. Co-worker and I just had a long discussion about whether one pronounces "FAQ" as a word ("fack"), or as letters (F-A-Q). I say word; he says letters.

This came up because I'm creating a FAQ about our journal's style guide, as the proofreaders seem to have chosen to ignore housestyle, and I'm tired of having an embolism about that fact.


erikaj - Mar 17, 2004 10:18:08 am PST #1437 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

I say f-a-q.


Jessica - Mar 17, 2004 10:26:48 am PST #1438 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

FAQ = fack, to me.


Megan E. - Mar 17, 2004 10:27:42 am PST #1439 of 10002

I say "fack"


Susan W. - Mar 17, 2004 10:28:05 am PST #1440 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I say fack.


Katerina Bee - Mar 17, 2004 10:29:28 am PST #1441 of 10002
Herding cats for fun

Fack here.