Stoner Vamp ,'Lessons'
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."
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.....)
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.
Marry is like arrow, merry and Mary sound almost identical, like error.
I'm now seeing (hearing) poor Meriadoc being called Mary.
Before we get off this topic, can someone clear up if it's pronounced Buff-is-ta or Buff-ees-ta?
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.
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.
My grandmother who was raised in Misourri, pronounces it Mi-zur-uh. I pronounce is differently depending on where I am.
The joys of growing up in Texas but not with Texan parents and then moving to NYC is the tendancy to mark my speech by whom I am around. Recently I have been encourgaed by a few people to redevelop the Texan qualities of my speech.
Mary is a long A, marry is a short A, and merry is a short E. (New Yorker.) I was also startled to find out from an author's note that one of my friends pronounced Carrie to rhyme with "hairy."
The mispronounced words discussion has confused me so thoroughly that I am now convinced I have never pronounced a single word of English correctly. (This casts some doubt on the Mary/marry/merry discussion above.) I now feel too self-conscious to speak, and plan to spend the rest of my life passing notes or writing on a small whiteboard I will hang around my neck, a la Willow and Buffy in "Hush," since at least I know how to spell.