At 3:20 PM 09/16/03, John Howell wrote:
>Others may disagree, but IMHO the proper pronunciation of place names
>is the pronunciation used by the natives, not what it looks like on
>paper. Thus, "Worchestershire" can be WOO-ster and I'm perfectly
>happy. And no non-native can figure out how to pr
At 04:53 PM 9/16/03 -0400, Andrew Stiller wrote:
>In that case, the birthplace of our nation was in Fluffya.
Yo, I lived jussuparoad in Trenn f'10 yeahs.
Now in Vuhmaunt. Place names like Calais (CAL-ess) and Barre (Berry).
Dennis
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Others may disagree, but IMHO the proper pronunciation of place
names is the pronunciation used by the natives, not what it looks
like on paper.
John
In that case, the birthplace of our nation was in Fluffya.
And no non-native can figure out how to pronouce Polish or Welsh
words from the way
Stu wrote:
>However, I also say TROMbone sometimes, even though I play one, and also
>every now and then, UMbrella, both of which induce spousal laughter. Maybe
>millions DO say TROMbone, and we should call your daughter on that one.
But
>in any case, she should continue to laugh at "robutt" with
However, I also say TROMbone sometimes, even though I play one, and also
every now and then, UMbrella, both of which induce spousal laughter. Maybe
millions DO say TROMbone, and we should call your daughter on that one. But
in any case, she should continue to laugh at "robutt" without a doubt.
St
At 11:24 AM -0400 9/15/03, Stu McIntire wrote:
I think it is accordingly fair to exempt this
pronunciation from scorn.
How about my pronunciation of "robutt" and "TROMbone"? Can I tell my
daughter not to laugh at me any more, as my pronunciations are now
exempt? Can I? Eh? Can I?
Christopher
Randy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sure! My uncle says "TROMbone" (Ohio twang) -- and at 76 he still plays
better than I ever did!
Randy
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> From:
On Monday, September 15, 2003, at 03:08 PM, Stu McIntire wrote:
But in any case, she should continue to laugh at "robutt" without a
doubt.
Even though it is a part of the British vernacular to pronounce it like
that?
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> At 11:24 AM -0400 9/15/03, Stu McIntire wrote:
>
> >I think it is accordingly fair to exempt this
> >pronunciation from scorn.
> >
>
>
> How about my pronunciation of "robutt" an
Christopher quoting me and following up:
>>I think it is accordingly fair to exempt this
>>pronunciation from scorn.
>
>How about my pronunciation of "robutt" and "TROMbone"? Can I tell my
>daughter not to laugh at me any more, as my pronunciations are now
>exempt? Can I? Eh? Can I?
Now ain't ther
At 11:24 AM -0400 9/15/03, Stu McIntire wrote:
I think it is accordingly fair to exempt this
pronunciation from scorn.
How about my pronunciation of "robutt" and "TROMbone"? Can I tell my
daughter not to laugh at me any more, as my pronunciations are now
exempt? Can I? Eh? Can I?
Christopher
>When Popeye mispronounces muscles as "mus-kulls", it is a good
>laugh. I don't find it at all funny, charming, cute, endearing, and
>certainly not reassuring when the Commander-in-Chief of the biggest
>arsenal of bombs in the world mispronounces nuclear as "nukey-ler".
>It isn't a case of the ev
At 4:41 PM 09/13/03, David H. Bailey wrote:
>[...]
>We just didn't happen to be around when green-witch changed into
>gren-itch and we ARE around when nuclear is changing in to nucular.
I'm not so sure of that. I think it more likely that the "nucular"
pronunciation has been around as long as th
At 4:41 pm -0400 13.09.2003, David H. Bailey wrote:
Why are all those words and names you list pronounced so differently
than their spelling? They must at some time to have been pronounced
as they are spelled or they wouldn't be spelled that way!
Not necessarily. London may always have been p
In a message dated 13/09/2003 21:42:02 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But these are all mispronunciations which have grown
to be accepted as correct pronunciations
Exactly! - the correct pronunciation is that which is recognised as correct by the majority.
If one insists on pron
;t be ignored!
Jim W.
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At 8:44 AM -0400 9/13/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Onl
Why is the correct pronunciation gren-itch, though, since the word is
clearly spelled green-witch? That's my whole point! I know the
pronunciation is gren-itch, despite it's spelling, and it is pronounced
that way because it is much easier to say. And for some people nucular
is easier to say
Her husband
used to try for hours to get her to say words correctly, but she simply could
not hear the difference!
Regards
Peter
Oh, I'm quite sure she could. Say rather, that she would not allow
her husband to correct her like a child.
My wife persists in leaving the first T out of "densitometry
ignored!
Jim W.
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At 8:44 AM -0400
Lawrence Yates writes:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>So tell me then why it is okay to mispronounce Greenwich as gren-itch?
>because Gren-itch is the correct pronunciation, it's not a mis-pronunciation.
>Green-itch is a mispronunciation. (I'm speaking of courser of Greenwich in
England - if >the
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mus-kulls
At 8:44 AM -0400 9/13/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Only
slightly off-topic here on the pronunciation list, I've just been sent
this one:
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't
mttaer
in waht oredr the ltteers in
At 07:45 AM 9/13/2003 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote:
So tell me then why it is okay to mispronounce Greenwich as gren-itch?
If some mispronunciation is alright in the English language, why is it
alright to come down so hard on other mispronunciation?
We're going through a period where a very rece
Only slightly off-topic here on the pronunciation list, I've just been sent this one:
"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer
in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is
taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a
toa
In a message dated 13/09/2003 12:47:03 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So tell me then why it is okay to mispronounce Greenwich as gren-itch?
because Gren-itch is the correct pronunciation, it's not a mis-pronunciation.
Green-itch is a mispronunciation. (I'm speaking of courser of
So tell me then why it is okay to mispronounce Greenwich as gren-itch?
If some mispronunciation is alright in the English language, why is it
alright to come down so hard on other mispronunciation?
We're going through a period where a very recent word is settling into
the common language and fi
At 05:47 PM 9/12/2003 -0800, Mark D. Lew wrote:
At 10:02 AM 09/12/03, Andrew Stiller wrote:
Also circular, muscular, crepuscular, avuncular, testicular, and no doubt
more than we're both forgetting.
When Popeye mispronounces muscles as "mus-kulls", it is a good
laugh. I don't find it at all funny
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