Posted on 04/14/2014 6:30:39 PM PDT by servo1969
If I wanted to know the correct pronunciation of words I would've gone to school!
It's always been "noter dame" ..... and when Frank Caradeo came to prominence as a football star for them, the sports guys never batted an eye but promptly started pronouncing his name "carRIDdeo". So my old man told me, and he was around at the time, living in Indiana as a matter of fact.
Listen carefully, and it's "screwel", descriptive of what happens to young minds full of mush (TM) when the NEA gets their claws into them.
Because it's incorrect. Check dictionary.com, there is no pronunciation shown there other than that with the accent on the second syllable.
In Late Latin and Vulgar Latin before that, the language began to take on a singsongy, syncopated accent similar to the accentuation of later Latin (non-Greekified) poetry, as in
JUliANus PERforAtur
A quoDAM qui SUSciTAtur
A beAta VIRgine.
-- Stella Maris, 13th century
So in a word of many syllables like "concomitant", the old adjective would have been "conCOMiTANte .... (equite, peditatu, whatever)", the COM being a secondary accent that grew up in response to this felt need of Late and Medieval Latinity, to make every other syllable a secondary stress.
In Classical Latin, there'd have been no secondary stress, and the word would have been pronounced "concomiTANte ...."
In English, the secondary stress is now the primary (only), the Latin endings having fallen away. Therefore the pronunciation ends up being "conCOMitant".
Help any?
</Net Nanny>
It was never pronounced that way until ignorant sports whacks started broadcasting it that way. It just makes Americans look stupid.
I'm no Catholic, but it find it insulting to refer to the mother of Jesus as a "dame". Why don't you just call her a "broad"?
and when Frank Caradeo
Never heard of him and it doesn't matter.
So, what are hard-core Murrkins to do?
Have a “cup of Johan”?
Drink some “Cidre”?
[spit!]
I refuse to be lectured-to so that we can become some socialized Euro-West. We spanked G-III over 200 years ago.
I’ll take the successes where they occur. This is a great call-in. Go Rush! :-)
Solipsism is a poor excuse for ignorance.
There is no intellect in sports, only meaningless trivia and history.
It's just another form of big business, chock full of un-admirable people and jerky prima donnas. In fact, if more people "ignored" sports and tuned in to live committee or legislative coverage on CSPAN, they wouldn't be so damned politically ignorant.
If they paid half as much attention to the ultimate sport...elections, we wouldn't be in the socialist death spiral we're in.
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