Here, we have the Great E/UH Divide.
Do you say "Mis-UR-ee" or "Mis-UR-uh"?
It pretty much tells you what part of the state people are from, and if they are "country" or "city."
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
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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."
Strix - Mar 18, 2004 6:44:25 am PST #1501 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
deborah grabien - Mar 18, 2004 6:50:23 am PST #1502 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Years in the UK left me with the tooth-grindy reaction to mispronounciations of Leicester and Worcester.
More common than those, even, is the mangling of "-shire" at the end of a place name. That, and the mangling of "Edinborough" and "Glasgow". Brrr.
Steph L. - Mar 18, 2004 6:53:48 am PST #1503 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Do you say "Mis-UR-ee" or "Mis-UR-uh"?
I get violent when people say "Mis-UR-uh" and, particularly, "Cin-cin-AT-uh."
There's an "I" on the end, people! Not an "A"!
Katerina Bee - Mar 18, 2004 7:02:56 am PST #1504 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
I think Anne's book organization stuff is golden. Mine is much like hers, except for the idea about turning pretty covers face-out, which I have to do now. I have a couch placed in front of the Wall of Books, so the ones I don't access often are on the bottom 2 tiers, because I have to move the couch to get at them. Obviously I could probably get rid of all those books, but you never know what you might need someday. The Human Anatomy book is useful sometimes, but the Introduction to Physics book: no.
Anne W. - Mar 18, 2004 7:03:46 am PST #1505 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Do you say "Mis-UR-ee" or "Mis-UR-uh"?
The former, as I spent my formative years in St. Louis.
More common than those, even, is the mangling of "-shire" at the end of a place name.
Is it supposed to be pronounced "-shr," almost as if there's no vowel? That's how I've always pronouced it.
What's really fun is listening to the way natives pronounce "Baltimore, Maryland."
Strix - Mar 18, 2004 7:06:49 am PST #1506 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I say MissourE, unless I'm at a family reunion or likewise, and then I revert back to childhood MissourAH.
Someone a while back asked it there was a term for when the Amry slapped two word together, like "humint" and there is. It's called "blending."
Hey, I learned something this semester! Whoda thunk it?
Vortex - Mar 18, 2004 7:12:27 am PST #1507 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Someone a while back asked it there was a term for when the Amry slapped two word together, like "humint" and there is. It's called "blending."
like "sitrep" (situation report)
Ginger - Mar 18, 2004 7:27:14 am PST #1508 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I get violent when people say "Mis-UR-uh" and, particularly, "Cin-cin-AT-uh."
There's an "I" on the end, people! Not an "A"!
So what's your feeling about the S at the end of Illinois? (I say "Mis-UR-uh." I lived in St. Joe in the fifth grade, and I assume that's where I picked it up.)
You can spot a non-Georgians by the pronounciation of Albany. The town in Georgia is pronounced "ALL Benny." There's also the pronounciation of Taliaferro County (Tolliver). Native Atlantans kind of slide over the second T in Atlanta.
Fred Pete - Mar 18, 2004 7:35:11 am PST #1509 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Native Atlantans kind of slide over the second T in Atlanta.
And Midwesterners transplanted to the south slide over both.
Mark of a true Wisconsinite -- can pronounce "Mukwanago" without pausing.
JohnSweden - Mar 18, 2004 7:40:15 am PST #1510 of 10002
I can't even.
The water version is "Slew" most certainly. Slew, in fact, is an alternate spelling, and is the "Slew" in question in the name "Seattle Slew".
Yet, in literature, it is the watery "Sl-ow [like ow!] of Despair" (Pilgrim's Progress)
I offen say ofTen. Nope, on thinking, just ofTen.
Edinburgh, Deb. I'm weeping at a true believer "borough"-ing us.
t winks
Big ass Guy Kay post coming up in a minute. I should probably hack it in bits to avoid dingoes.