Jayne: 'Cause I don't know these folks. Don't much care to. Mal: They're whores. Jayne: I'm in.
'Heart Of Gold'
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."
Micole - Mar 18, 2004 11:23:44 am PST #1528 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
P.M. Marc - Mar 18, 2004 11:36:28 am PST #1529 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
I was also startled to find out from an author's note that one of my friends pronounced Carrie to rhyme with "hairy."
::blink::
there's another way to say it?
Alicia K - Mar 18, 2004 11:39:46 am PST #1530 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
Fred Pete! Mukwonago! Sorry. So another fellow Wisconsinite and got excited. And you can't forget Oconomowoc.
My hometown is Wausau, and it got a mention in the Liberace TV bio-movie some years back. They mispronounced it to sound like "Warsaw." It's WAH-sah.
Fred Pete, did you say RAY-seen or ruh-SEEN for the city of Racine? I grew up saying it ruh-SEEN and it always threw me when I heard other Wisconsin folks saying it the other way.
deborah grabien - Mar 18, 2004 11:40:55 am PST #1531 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I've always pronounced Carrie the way I would if it began with a lower case c and ended in a y. Carry. Carrie.
P.M. Marc - Mar 18, 2004 11:42:16 am PST #1532 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
I've always pronounced Carrie the way I would if it began with a lower case c and ended in a y. Carry. Carrie.
Which rhymes with hairy, drat it.
Alicia K - Mar 18, 2004 11:58:01 am PST #1533 of 10002
Uncertainty could be our guiding light.
I guess it could be pronounced to rhyme with "starry," but then it's usually spelled Kari.
JohnSweden - Mar 18, 2004 11:59:46 am PST #1534 of 10002
I can't even.
John, that reading sounds like it was great. I have The Envy.
Thanks, Plei. I wasn't shooting for Envy, but I'll take it. t greedy
I did a writeup for the Kay site, brightweavings.com, because people in other cities on GGK's tour have posted and I enjoyed their stuff, so I thought I'd return the favour. I figured Literary was a good place for it here. Sadly, I had to post in the middle of the great misplaced pronunciation skirmish, but them's as interested will see it on the way by.
ObOnT: I also sometimes hear carrie/carry with a flatter A, like car-ry. Viz: Kansas, Carry On Our Wayward Son. Scots tend to pronounce words like that more ah than eh, like my first name.
deborah grabien - Mar 18, 2004 12:25:02 pm PST #1535 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Which rhymes with hairy, drat it.
but - but - I say them entirely differently! "Hairy" has an almost extra syllable in it: "hay-ahry." For me, Carrie rhymes with Harry.
Katie M - Mar 18, 2004 1:01:21 pm PST #1536 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Marry is like arrow, merry and Mary sound almost identical, like error.
Er, so, the a in arrow and the e in error are... different?
Huh.
Y'all have too many sounds in your English.
Jessica - Mar 18, 2004 1:20:45 pm PST #1537 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Anyone else seen this? (It's book-related, and I'm not caught up in Natter yet.)
The parents of an elementary school pupil are fuming over the book their daughter brought home from the school library: a children's story about a prince whose true love turns out to be another prince.
Michael Hartsell said he and his wife, Tonya, couldn't believe it when Prince Bertie, the leading character in "King & King," waves off a bevy of eligible princes before falling for Prince Lee.
The book ends with the princes marrying and sharing a kiss.
"I was flabbergasted," Hartsell said. "My child is not old enough to understand something like that, especially when it is not in our beliefs."