Well ... my uncle did not marry an insect, neether ... uhhh ... nyether .... uhhh ... well, he dint .. that's all.
When did THIS happen?
Uranus was spelled (or spelt) omicron, upsilon, alpha, nu, omicron, sigma, with the accent on the ultima, and would therefore have been pronounced o-ran-OS by the Greeks.
But only a pedant would use the correct classical Greek pronunciation in English. You might as well say ‘Kaisar’ and ‘faikes’ instead of Caesar and feces.
Or the reporters who always sound like they came from south of the border when they have to pronounce Nicaragua?
How the hell did the 7th planet become "urineness?"
Because they got tired of all the jokes about your-anus.
Those aren't fish, either.
But yes, NPR frequently makes me want to shoot something. They never seem to realize that as a class, they appear to be educated far beyond their intelligence.
Whales are fish.
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HUH?
She: "I don't know why you keep calling them that? That's not what they're called!"
Me: "What should I call them?"
She: "Munchen and Bayern, of course!"
Bye-bye.
Good grief, has it gotten to the point where they’re saying “Meheecoh” on NPR now? Ever since Dear Leader started with the Pahkeestahn business, the media have really let themselves go with the non-anglo pronunciations (which is a form of sticking it to The Man and therefore irresistable to leftists).
NPR needs to use the correct “Commie” for “progressive” and socialist for ‘rat.
The Prince of Whales will be upset to hear that whales are not mammals. The confusion is understandable; however, as NPR is almost exclusively populated by dead fish.
No, it wasn't. It had nothing to do with the tide.
Ironically, "tsunami" means "harbor wave," and is thus an inaccurate description.
Tsunamis are barely observable in the open ocean and build up their height when they reach the shore. So "harbor wave" is somewhat accurate.
The Oxford English Dictionary has over four full pages devoted to the word fish. (And these are BIG pages!) Here's the first definition they give:
In popular language, any animal living exclusively in the water; primarily denoting vertebrate animals provided with fins and destitute of limbs; but extended to include various cetaceans, crustaceans, molluscs, etc. In modern scientific language (to which popular usage now tends to approximate) restricted to a class of vertebrate animals, provided with gills throughout life, and cold blooded; the limbs, if present, are modified into fins, and supplemented by unpaired median fins. Except in the compound shell-fish the word is no longer applied in educated use to invertebrate animalsML/NJ
... which means "Thorn" IIRC, and wasn't that city once a stronghold for the Knights Templar in the 1300's or am I getting two places mixed up?
It's their fullness of themselves that drives me crazy.
The English invented a language they can’t speak.
Wrong on all counts. Get your money back for your failed education.
Ishmael thought they were fish. He was wrong too.