lived in St. Joe in the fifth grade, and I assume that's where I picked it up.
Ginger, that's my hometown! What school, what year? (Uh, if you don't mind.)
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."
Strix - Mar 18, 2004 7:54:50 am PST #1515 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Steph L. - Mar 18, 2004 8:01:45 am PST #1516 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Mary/merry/marry
There's a difference between these? Seriously?
I *do* hear pen/pin.
Susan W. - Mar 18, 2004 8:03:18 am PST #1517 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
With a Philly accent (and many other East Coast ones), Mary sounds like how the rest of the country pronounces all three. Merry has a distinctive short "e" sound with no trace of an "a", while marry has a short "a".
deborah grabien - Mar 18, 2004 8:09:30 am PST #1518 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Is it supposed to be pronounced "-shr
Yup. I hear "shy-er" and even "sheer".
Edinburgh, Deb. I'm weeping at a true believer "borough"-ing us.
You'd better be winking, bro. That was deliberate, and I can't believe you're the only one to catch it. (I loves me some Edinburgh, Eddinburra, Edinborough.....)
Ginger - Mar 18, 2004 8:33:58 am PST #1519 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Erin, it was Eugene Field Elementary, and it would have been around 1964. Long before you were born, I suspect. My dad was working at the Swift plant. My mother still keeps up with some people we knew there.
Beverly - Mar 18, 2004 8:47:38 am PST #1520 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Marry is like arrow, merry and Mary sound almost identical, like error.
§ ita § - Mar 18, 2004 9:13:33 am PST #1521 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm now seeing (hearing) poor Meriadoc being called Mary.
Wolfram - Mar 18, 2004 10:00:19 am PST #1522 of 10002
Visilurking
Before we get off this topic, can someone clear up if it's pronounced Buff-is-ta or Buff-ees-ta?
Vortex - Mar 18, 2004 10:02:08 am PST #1523 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Before we get off this topic, can someone clear up if it's pronounced Buff-is-ta or Buff-ees-ta?
The latter. Like Sandanista.
P.M. Marc - Mar 18, 2004 10:12:05 am PST #1524 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
Of course, I don't even know what kind of accent I have anymore. I certainly don't sound like a local native, but I don't think I sound Bama or Philly either.
Philly/PA with a hint of the South, to my ear. You've got a slightly softened version of the accent that my PA friends/roomies of old had (I assume they still have them, but college was an age ago.)
I think I pronounce milk melk. Unless it's a verb. Then it's milk.
John, that reading sounds like it was great. I have The Envy.