Pronunciation Help! (Vanity)

6/1/03 | ILBBACH

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

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[John H K]

Well, to be fair to Marie, by the time she was that age she'd been seriously irradiated by all her work with radiation.

[searchandrecovery]

I'd like to take this opportunity to say, Polish women are HOT.

I like the book-writing-guy Jean Shepherd. He wrote a story called "The Star-Crossed Romance" about a date between himself (not Polish), and Josephine (Polish). Here's a couple of lines (not used by permission at all, but probably ok in the grand scheme of things)...

ME: "From East Chicago."

SCHWARTZ: "A Polish girl? From East Chicago? Next door to you?"

FLICK: "What's her name?"

ME: "Josephine. Josephine Cosnowski."

The three of us sat silently for a long moment, each lost in his private thoughts. Already, schemes and fantasies were rushing through our respective skulls.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Cz·sto·cho·wa    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (chnst-kv, chstô-hôvä)

A city of southern Poland north of Katowice. Its monastery is a famous pilgrimage site. Population: 258,266.

A list of the pronunciation symbols used in this Dictionary is given below in the column headed AHD. The column headed EXAMPLES contains words chosen to illustrate how the AHD symbols are pronounced. The letters that correspond in sound to the AHD symbols are shown in boldface. Although similar, the AHD and IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols are not precisely the same because they were conceived for different purposes.

EXAMPLES	AHD		EXAMPLES	AHD
pat			boot
pay			out	ou
care	âr		pop	p
father	ä		roar	r
bib	b		sauce	s
church	ch		ship, dish	sh
deed, milled	d		tight, stopped	t
pet			thin	th
bee			this	th
fife, phase, rough	f		cut
gag	g		urge, term, firm, word, heard	ûr
hat	h		valve	v
which	hw		with	w
pit			yes	y
pie, by			zebra, xylem	z
pier	îr		vision, pleasure, garage	zh
judge	j		about, item, edible, gallop, circus
kick, cat, pique	k		butter	r
lid, needle*	l (nd'l)
mum	m
no, sudden*	n (sd'n)
thing	ng
pot			FOREIGN	AHD
toe			French feu, German schön French oeuf, German zwölf
caught, paw, for, horrid, hoarse**	ô		French tu, German über	ü
noise	oi		German ich, German ach, Scottish loch
took			French bon (bô)***

*In English the consonants l and n often constitute complete syllables by themselves.

**Regional pronunciations of -or- vary. In pairs such as for, four; horse, hoarse; and morning, mourning, the vowel varies between (ô) and (). In this Dictionary these vowels are represented as follows: for (fôr), four (fôr, fr); horse (hôrs), hoarse (hôrs, hrs); and morning (môrning), mourning (môrning, mr-). Other words for which both forms are shown include more, glory, and borne. A similar variant occurs in words such as coral, forest, and horrid, where the pronunciation of o before r varies between (ô) and (). In these words the (ôr) pronunciation is given first: forest (fôrist, fr-).

***The Dictionary uses to reflect that the preceding vowel is nasalized. In French four nasalized vowels occur, as in the phrase un bon vin blanc: AHD ( bô v blä)

[martin_fierro]

Yinzes hunkies got any ideas?

As if.

I almost told him, "Gesundheit!"

[1rudeboy]

Can't post photos, as my Lithuanian girfriend will get mad. And I assure you, after spending a good deal of time in that area of E. Europe, Lithuanian women are superior to their Polish counterparts. But Polish women have larger . . . tracts of land.

Great, she's mad at me already . . . .

[Vinnie]

Actually that was my meaning of 'hot'.

She must have been heavily dosed w/ radiation.

[xsmommy]

hey, if you would just say EASTERN EUROPEAN women are hot, you could have saved yourself all that trouble!; ) signed

xsmommy

1/4 Polish

1/4 Ukrainian

1/2 Lithuanian

[xsmommy]

Hunkies, not HANKIEs, ya jagoff!

[Pablo64]

"Great, she's mad at me already . . . ."

LOL! You're not supposed to let her look over your shoulder when you post, ha ha!!

[rabidralph]

May I just add that FReepers are like the world's largest online encyclopedia, written by a thousand monkeys sitting at typewriters. It may take awhile but we always come up with the right answer! Who knew there was a Polish FReeper who could actually answer this question. I am constantly in awe when I lurk through here. Have a wonderful Sunday, all!