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."
Y'all have too many sounds in your English.
You, on the other hand, are wasting perfectly good combinations of letters.
RAY-seen
Definitely this. (I'm from Milwaukee, btw). Then there's New BERlin, of course. Wasn't there a commercial for something some years back making fun of Oconomowoc ("on account of what?")?
I'm as stumped as Plei is on hairy Carrie, as opposed to Harry Carey's, where I'm shortly headed for drinks.
I guess it could be pronounced to rhyme with "starry," but then it's usually spelled Kari.
one sister is Kari prononced Carrie which is the same as carry and harry and hairy
Marezee doats and doezee doats.
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."
Thanks Erin! (Like "DefCon") I was about to decide it's called "AbCram" or something.
Carrie rhymes with marry (as does Harry). Kerry rhymes with merry. Hairy comes very close to rhyming with Mary. Mary, merry, and marry are all pronounced differently. (In my New Yorkish accent, anyway.)
Mary has the same sound as "air." Merry has the same vowel as "egg." Marry has the same vowel as "cat." (Tried to think of words without r or n next to the vowel, since those tend to change the vowels around in some accents, but now that I think about it, I've heard people pronounce egg as "aig," so I'm not sure I'm not confusiing the issue more.)
Jess PMoon, that book made ALA's top ten most challenged of 2003 list.
Colour me unsurprised.
Fred Pete, did you say RAY-seen or ruh-SEEN for the city of Racine?
Ruh-SEEN. Right next to Kuh-NO-shuh.
Weirdest moment I ever had on that score was during high school, working at the Janesville (JANE'S-vil) McD's, waiting on someone who told me how nice JAN-es-vil was.
Marezeedoatsanddozeeetoatsandlittlelambseedivey. Kiddleeiveytoowooodenchew?
Ma/e/r/rr/ys are all the same to me. Pin and pen are different.
