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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #30 on: January 31, 2006, 07:22:14 pm »
Tomaytoes or Tomahtoes?

Coohpons or Cue-pons?
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #31 on: January 31, 2006, 10:33:53 pm »
Tom AY toes.

COO pons.

Vase rhymes with Phase.

WELCOME TO AMERICAN ENGLISH 101
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #32 on: January 31, 2006, 10:37:46 pm »
Quote from: jough on January 31, 2006, 10:33:53 pm
Tom AY toes.

COO pons.

Vase rhymes with Phase.

WELCOME TO AMERICAN ENGLISH 101

I get irritated when people say "coo min" instead of "cyoo min" even though I intellectually believe the former is the proper pronounciation.
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #33 on: January 31, 2006, 10:54:46 pm »
How do you pronounce Worcestershire?

Wer-CEST-er-sheer?
WER-ster-sheer?
Wor-ces-ter-shy-er?
WUR-stur-shur?
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #34 on: January 31, 2006, 11:09:39 pm »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on January 31, 2006, 10:54:46 pm
How do you pronounce Worcestershire?

Garum
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #35 on: January 31, 2006, 11:11:10 pm »
Wander like the wind, little thread!
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #36 on: January 31, 2006, 11:13:14 pm »
As follows:

vayse
COO-pons
to-MAY-toes
WUR-stur-shur

And now that we're through with that...

Let's call the whole thing off.
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #37 on: February 01, 2006, 02:00:54 am »
Worcestershire?

I pronounce it so it rhymes with "Jough".
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #38 on: February 01, 2006, 02:04:40 am »
jough = joe, rhymes with dough?
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #39 on: February 01, 2006, 02:06:46 am »
Quote from: jough on January 31, 2006, 10:33:53 pm
Vase rhymes with Phase.

Rhymes with face you mean.  Phase rhymes with stays.

and you are the poetry dude too.

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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #40 on: February 01, 2006, 02:09:19 am »
Quote from: Hobo Frenzy on February 01, 2006, 02:04:40 am
jough = joe, rhymes with dough?

Isn't there a thread somewhere where Jough talks about the pronunciation of his name?  All I know is that it is neither Jough like Joe nor Jough like Jeff.

I gave up around there, and when pronouncing it mentally, I give it the same sort of strange back of the throat emphasis that Brits give to Vincent van Gogh.
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #41 on: February 01, 2006, 02:11:47 am »
Tomatoes = to-MAY-toes
Coupons = COO-pons
Worcestershire? = WUR-stur-shire
Jough = Steve

~Paul = Awesome
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #42 on: February 01, 2006, 02:42:12 am »
Quote from: pmcd9 on February 01, 2006, 02:06:46 am
Rhymes with face you mean.  Phase rhymes with stays.

and you are the poetry dude too.

~Paul

I was about to say this, TOO! "Vase rhymes with phase"? What? You mean "vase rhymes with face," jough. Right?
It bugs me when people pronounce vase like, "vaws." But "phase"? What?

And ... and ... Worcester is wuhster. Therefore, Wuhstershire Sauce. Maybe that's a New England thing. "Wuh" isn't really the sound I'm looking for, but I can't think of a better way to explain the pronouncing. Wough? Wooh? It's like, the first syllable of "wuss." Wuss-ter.
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #43 on: February 01, 2006, 05:28:03 am »
man.
my latin teacher should read achewood, just because he feels the need to go into hour long rants about every mispronunciation he hears.
he can back it all up, too. that's the fun part.

he contends that the "northern" way to pronounce many words is, in fact, working under reverse logic. A word is pronounced a certain way. this pronunciation is then shown using letters. Then, certain uppity northern types decide that it should be pronounced "the way it's spelled". So, wooster becomes worchester, "according to the spelling", when the spelling is really only an approximation of the pronunciation.

except for the whole "being southern" thing. There are certain words which he refuses to pronounce correctly.
so far: anything ending with "-en" Den is "din". Pen is "pin".

he is simultaneously the reason I hate latin, and the reason I love latin. damn him for that.
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Re: 31 Jan 2006 - Whose ass am I kicking?
« Reply #44 on: February 01, 2006, 05:31:20 am »
Vase is pronounced as if the s were a z.

It does not rhyme with face.  It rhymes with phase, ways, stays, maze, pays, rays, lays, days, and gays.

No one gets "days" wrong, but everyone gets Vase wrong.  Why is that?

Also, people mispronounce "flaccid" all the time.  It's not FLAS-sid, but FLAK-sid.  You pronounce the first c as a hard k, as in succinct (although I hear people mispronounce this as suh-SINKT too).

THERE ARE RULES ABOUT ENGLISH PRONUNCIATION, PEOPLE

My favourite mispronunciation though is often, pounced sometimes as OFF-tin instead of the more correct silent-t OFF-en, whereas these same people won't say "LIST-en" for listen.

Also, library (people leave out the first r), February (same thing) and then people who ADD an r where it doesn't belong, saying BORT instead of BAWT for bought.

That's just soooooooooo lazy.
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