Posted on 04/14/2014 6:30:39 PM PDT by servo1969
RUSH: I understand, ladies and gentlemen, that my occasional usage of the word "concomitant" and "concomitantly" is irritating Freepers at FreeRepublic.com. "Yes, and if I hear that word and his pronunciation one more time, I will scream!" I guess some prefer "con-com-i-TANT-ly." At any rate, I was watching a show, a BBC show -- a fascinating show, by the way. I hope it's made available in America. It's from the BBC, about Kim Philby. It's a two-parter. I think it's an hour and 45 minutes each, whatever. It's an hour, hour and a half, maybe it's two hours.
So there are two episodes of a historian/documentarian named Ben Macintyre telling the story of Kim Philby. He was a Soviet spy in the UK who got away with it for quite a few years. It's a fascinating story. It occurred informant fifties, sixties, all the way in the eighties. Hhe died sometime in the eighties, but listening to Ben Macintyre narrate this thing, he pronounced some words in ways I have never heard them pronounced. I had to rewind one thing three or four times to hear it, 'cause dovetailed with what the captioning said.
We pronounce the word "controversy." He said it "con-TRO-ve-see," as in the "controversy that Philby found himself in the midst of..." I said, "Wait. What is that?" It's just like in the old NBC days. I'm talking about the David Sarnoff days. When you wanted to try out to be a staff announcer at NBC, they gave you a pronunciation test, and if they gave you the word c-o-n-s-u-m-m-a-t-e, most people pronounce that "consummate." Ah, ah, ah! If you were taking the old NBC staff announcer test, if you didn't pronounce it "con-SUM-it," you failed. "Con-SUM-it" was the way it was pronounced then.
"Con-TRO-ve-see " is the way the Brits, apparently some of them, pronounce "controversy." There's "ad-VERT-tis-ment," and "advert" is the British word for commercial or spot. The British say everything wrong, but now people are all over me for "concomitantly" and the way I'm pronouncing it. They want "con-com-i-TANT-ly." That's the way some people want me to pronounce it. Screw all of you! You know what the word is. The thing is, when I started using it, everybody here thought I had made up a word. You Freepers at least know it's a word. (laughing) Now the staff's saying, "Gee, thanks, for making us look like idiots."
I'm just joking here, but the Freepers are really upset here, apparently, by the way I'm pronouncing it.
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RUSH: If you can, go back, find an old dictionary, and look up the original pronunciation the word "espionage." It used to be "es-PI-on-age." Henry Cabot Lodge even once pronounced it that way, "es-PI-on-age," to go along with "con-com-i-TANT." Is that better, folks? "con-com-i-TANT-ly"?
Show prep
Tom Mars was plugging FReeperstodaytoo!
ROFLMAO!
Oh yea and while you're looking down at your thumbs and waving your fingers at a piece of glass for hours on end tell us how stupid the people are that are watching American Idol.
During the siege of Malta in WWII, Winston Churchill suggested that maybe they could send vitamins to keep the people from starving.
Of course his advisers explained that vitamins by themselves would not replace food. Still I guess he was thinking outside the box.
I`m just home from work.
Gosh, nice to be noticed by El Rushbo!
What a cool deal-—one of very few here at FreeRepublic with that distinction. (That probably puts me in the rarefied company of the most esteemed Jim Robinson, among other notables...yow! love it!)
I am shocked that he spent so much time commenting on what I said-—I had posted an earlier comment (it was pretty negative [sorry, Rush, just what I`m honestly thinking these days]. I wonder if he read that post first and then reacted to my second post...
Anyway, if this stuff just rolls off his back, me thinks he doth protest too much...and, his pronunciation explanation? Hmmmmmmm...
I think he`s STILL pronouncing it wrong-—the accent is on the 2nd syllable.
Talk to you tomorrow, Rush, my new friend! (Don`t let this come between us. *big smile*)
Yours in conservatism,
krunkygirl/nancy
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For all the grousing about Rush, he is a pretty balanced good natured fellow.
At any rate it is nice that he gave FR a shout out even if it was a bit snarky.
He has been mildly grousing about the “issues people” for weeks.
Life is more than politics.
Or they use a Book made from a Face and a Space called My.
So would this fall under the jurisdiction of the FReeper grammar police? Or do we have FReeper pronunciation police too?
Heh.
Congrats! Very cool.
My daughter always tells me I pronounce certain words wrong. She says I put the emPHASis on the wrong syllABle.
Oh he monitors it diligently. Doncha Rush? LOL!
Why was there a FReeper FReakout and moi was not invited? I certainly didn’t get the memo. I want to be on the freakout ping list whoever is running it.
I, too, would like to be part of the FReeper FReakout Ping List no matter which syllables are emphasized.
I imagine he peruses it regularly.
Yeah, he seemed to soften his comments at the end.
He prides himself on understanding the “real world” (as experienced daily, by the rest of us regular folk,) and I would like to think that that means he isn`t above a little bit of criticism. (Suck it up, Rush!)
kg/nancy
You’ve gone missin’
Hi!
Sometimes the tornado of life drops me off in Oz for awhile!
:-)
Hiya!
Me too.
He has been mildly miffed at the “Stick to the issues” people, but has been kind.
It’s his dang show.
Thank you! I am taking a bow FOR FreeRepublic and the afore-
mentioned, highly esteemed Jim Robinson, and all who gather here.
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