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PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« on: June 13, 2008, 01:43:08 am »
PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE. Is it pronounced "El-Oh-El Cats", like saying each letter, or is pronounced "Lohl Cats", like if LOL was a word?

I say it the second way.
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2008, 01:52:15 am »
It's always rhymed with roll in my head since I first heard the term in 94 or 95. But then I also say .gif as Jiff.
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2008, 02:00:46 am »
Its pronounced "Jough-katz"
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2008, 02:09:50 am »
If it's not the same as 'loll', I don't want to hear about it.
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2008, 02:15:56 am »
Lowell Katz.
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2008, 03:08:26 am »
/pliːz/ /du/ /nɑt/ /ˈmɛnʃən/ /ðæt/ /hɪər/

At least in the IPA.
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2008, 02:04:06 pm »
Quote from: Arachno-capitalist on June 13, 2008, 02:00:46 am
Its pronounced "Jough-katz"

And "ACAP" is prounounced "Can'd." 
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2008, 02:42:32 pm »
1) Nice filter.

2) There seems to be a strong consensus, which I like.

3) 1995? Where was I? (Oh, I remember. I was five.)
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2008, 03:00:12 pm »
Quote from: CortJstr on June 13, 2008, 01:52:15 am
It's always rhymed with roll in my head since I first heard the term in 94 or 95. But then I also say .gif as Jiff.
Is there another way?
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2008, 03:13:21 pm »
g-iff

like 'give' with a soft v.
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2008, 03:26:15 pm »
Quote from: Arachno-capitalist on June 13, 2008, 03:00:12 pm
Is there another way?

LOLL.  Rhymes with 'doll'.  Why would anyone pronounce it like 'roll'? There is already a word 'loll,' why would you not pronounce it the same?
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2008, 06:43:02 pm »
For some reason I read ROFL as "roll-f" in my head. I don't know why.
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2008, 06:52:12 pm »
It reads as "roffle" in my mind.
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #13 on: June 14, 2008, 01:23:19 am »
Quote from: wombat on June 13, 2008, 03:26:15 pm
LOLL.  Rhymes with 'doll'.  Why would anyone pronounce it like 'roll'? There is already a word 'loll,' why would you not pronounce it the same?

this too
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Re: PLEASE, DO NOT MENTION THAT HERE pronunciation
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2008, 02:25:41 am »
Isn't the actual word 'loll' also pronounced like 'doll'?  That's how my mom always pronounced it when she was accusing me of "lolling around."

Actually, does anyone even call it "lolling around" anymore outside of Derbyshire?  I seem to recall finding the word listed in the etymology of lollygag as something nobody had used since the Fourteenth Century or something, which would be par for the course as far as my mother's side of the family is concerned.
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