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To: EveningStar

Prostate: The late mayor Tom Menino of
Boston on a public service announcement:
“Together we can beat prostrate (sic)
cancer.”

Names mispronounced: Ray or Dave Davies
of the Kinks: should be “daviss” not
“day-vees”.
Have heard Britishers pronounce Michigan
as “Mitch-i-gen”.And what’s with lieutenant as “lef-tenant”?


51 posted on 11/18/2016 1:00:42 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Had a Belgian intern who pronounced

Michigan ··· mitch-chikan

Buffalo ··· Boo-follow


102 posted on 11/18/2016 1:30:28 PM PST by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: raccoonradio
"And what’s with lieutenant as “lef-tenant”?"

"Because it's the correct pronunciation.--Nomad, London England"

103 posted on 11/18/2016 1:30:50 PM PST by Pelham (the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
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To: raccoonradio

As Twain said, Brits and Americans are separated by a common language.


166 posted on 11/18/2016 2:32:36 PM PST by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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