there may not be a more "blue" area IN the U.S.A...which has what has driven me to "comedy! I guess.
far better to laugh than to cry...at least most of the time!
Posted on 04/14/2014 6:30:39 PM PDT by servo1969
But then again the Brits call a car hood a bonnet and a screwdriver a spanner...
Exactly..!
Rush is indirectly TELLING us he sometimes drops in —huuugely flattering.
I can’t believe some folks here are not seeing what this really is...
I say ‘con COM i tant’ -
A spanner is a wrench, at least amongst the Brits I’ve worked with.
why, thanks, Rush !
I was there but stepped out and missed the whole thing LOL.
Wrench. Meant to write wrench.
Hey Rush, I know you were tweaking us today by pronouncing sniper with a short i.
My dad used to mess around with the renunciation of words too. Made my mom furious.
“Don’t DO that” she’d say. “People won’t know your kidding and think you’re stupid”.
I thought America closed its borders to white, English speaking Europeans decades ago?
Bloody technicians! Using my spanners to stir their tea!
No, if Rush wants pronunciation torture he just needs to listen to Jesse a.k.a. Bpearthwatch slaughter easy words like “mercury”.
Jesse pronounces it as “ murr curr ee”
In a half asleep stoner voice.
Apologies in advance for any horrific damage incurred from listening to Jesse slaughter language and reason...
Hey, I do that with a couple of words also.
Hey, I say Sangwich instead of sandwich.
It’s just a colloquial variant.
LOL!
My husband does that all the time. I tell him that he is going to embarrass the hell out of himself some day when someone thinks he is serious. And I will pretend I do not know him when that happens. Promise.
Fraggle!
Here you go.
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-PJ
I once had an Englishman ask me, “Why do you Yanks say ‘vítamin’ instead of ‘vitamin’?” I responded, “Why do you Brits say, “vítal’ instead of ‘vital’?” He turned red and shut up. ;-)
I’ve also heard the word said ‘con-co-MIT-ant-ly’ but never _TANT-ly.
Maybe it’s just his pre-Broadcast school Midwest dialect leaking through, but Rush tends to overuse & over-enunciate words like “abSSurd”, “abject” and other AB- words; don’t know why it bothers me, but it does ;). I suppose he’s just falling back on comfortable old terms…
Not as irritating, however, as the increased pronunciation of FOOD like ‘feud’, or the “Vocal Fry” speech pattern becoming more prominent even among men…
“The grammar police on this site are out of control!”
Hey! Watch it! ;-)
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