Posted on 03/15/2015 3:38:57 AM PDT by iowamark
A wonderful set of books. I’ve read all of them twice and some of them a third time. The audio set are wonderful.
Yeah....I even think I’ve seen where the association goes after real estate agents that use the term and aren’t part of the association.
LOL!
As my wife once observed: "Is it better to have read it as a Classic Commic than never to have read it as anything?"
OK, Mackinac Island MI pronounced Mackinaw.
Try “Amherst” — town or college in MA.
Detroit was originally pronounced diht-rOYt, but now, thanks to Ebonic pronunciation I hear it pronounced DEE-troit.
Hereford cattle? In Kansas we pronounce it herferd.
We all love Shakespeare’s plays but they are rarely done in the dialect of the time. Mr. Mercat and I went to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream in what they said was the original dialect. It was interesting but the acting was pretty awful. And they used a rotating stage a lot and I started to smell the old oil and couldn’t keep track of where the exits were so we left at intermission.
For those journalists going to New Hamshire for the election, the Con-chord is a plan. The City in NH is Con-Curd.
Lye-ster. Or try Leominster.
I notice that you insist on the correct spelling of Panamá and Panameños. Before I lived abroad, I was very casual about such things. E.g., I tended to pronounce Marie Antoinette's second name as if it were "Antanett". However, when one lives in another country, such errors tend to grate on the nerves. I still feel a slight dissatisfaction when Boehner pronounces his name like Baynor, though it's perfectly correct for him to pronounce it anyway he wants, or when someone asks for some au jus I tend to feel a smile coming on.
Noticed there are 2 ways to pronounce Lejeune while living in Jville.
AM-Erst.
There is no “H.”
Another one from western MA is Longmeadow. If you are not from the area it is LONG-meadow. But if you are a townie, its long-MEADow.
New England is just full of crappy town names that can make you sound like an idiot.
“Pronouncing a final i like a as in sofa is something I’ve heard lots of old timers do: Miama, Hawaya, Missoura”
A family link between Appalachia and the Ozarks?
I’ve heard Hawaii pronounce “how AR ya.”
What is particularly egregious (IMO) is the pervasive “gonna” instead of “going to”. It isn’t just everyday use, it has spread to talking heads, who are gonna be right back after these commercials...
Are you a corpse man?
When I travelled in England word pronunciations were often completly different when you crossed the street. And if you visit Ireland or Scotland you find yourself wondering if folks are just messing with you.
“Brush Up Your Shakespeare”
LOL that’s funny. Kearney street got to me. I read phonetically and got lost on karnee. There are some words we read and never say. I forget now but it was like 20 years of pronouncing a word in my head that shocked me when I heard it. This stuff is actually interesting and would make a great senior high elective. Won’t matter since we will have to learn two new languages soon, Spanish and Farsi. Hey, since the Muslims invaded Spain, are they similar in any way?
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