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Coriander
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 Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:12 pm |
My students in Italy used to love that one.
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PBo
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DonDaddyD
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rhext
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:27 pm |
| Greg66 wrote: | Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!. |
Got a nasty feeling that Aluminum is the Old English spelling too!
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Greg66
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Greg66
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:30 pm |
| rhext wrote: | | Greg66 wrote: | Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!. |
Got a nasty feeling that Aluminum is the Old English spelling too! |
Not since 1812: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=aluminum
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DonDaddyD
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lost_in_thought
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:38 pm |
| Greg66 wrote: | Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!. |
Meeeeer.
I also hate their adoption of such non-words as 'burglarized' (burgled) or 'weaponized' (armed).
FCN 7/1
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rhext
Joined: 16 Apr 2008
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:39 pm |
And serves me right for not reading the rest of the thread before posting....
....but big thanks to Sarajoy for the Ghoti link. Been looking for that one for years ever since it was explained to me in University, and I then forgot how to get the 'i'.
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rhext
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:41 pm |
And don't get me started on 'visit with', or the wholesale conversion of nouns to verbs!
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Greg66
Joined: 04 Jul 2008
Posts: 2234
Location: The Embankment
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:42 pm |
| lost_in_thought wrote: | | Greg66 wrote: | Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!. |
Meeeeer.
I also hate their adoption of such non-words as 'burglarized' (burgled) or 'weaponized' (armed). |
Aye. Like "medaled" (earned a medal). And the verb "apres", being something done post-skiing.
FCN Zero. Like ice. Look for the red and black bag disappearing over the horizon
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DonDaddyD
Joined: 19 Jun 2007
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:44 pm |
| lost_in_thought wrote: | | Greg66 wrote: | Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!. |
Meeeeer.
I also hate their adoption of such non-words as 'burglarized' (burgled) or 'weaponized' (armed). |
I'm sure I read in a Mills and Boon once:
"I stood before the bed, my girlfriend drapped across it. She looked onward, wanton and waiting, eagerly, for my weaponized self to burglarize her very existence....."
What? Too much?
Food Chain number = 4
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights as you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game |
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PBo
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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Location: Sheffield
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PBo
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:48 pm |
| DonDaddyD wrote: | | lost_in_thought wrote: | | Greg66 wrote: | Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!. |
Meeeeer.
I also hate their adoption of such non-words as 'burglarized' (burgled) or 'weaponized' (armed). |
I'm sure I read in a Mills and Boon once:
"I stood before the bed, my girlfriend drapped across it. She looked onward, wanton and waiting, eagerly, for my weaponized self to burglarize her very existence....."
What? Too much? |
Are you sure about the burglarize?.....not something similar?
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PBo
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Big Wib
Joined: 15 Feb 2009
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Location: Melton Mowbray
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:50 pm |
| DonDaddyD wrote: | | lost_in_thought wrote: | | Greg66 wrote: | Alooo-minum.
Or-reg-no.
Like, totahlee ahhsum pronunciation, dude!. |
Meeeeer.
I also hate their adoption of such non-words as 'burglarized' (burgled) or 'weaponized' (armed). |
I'm sure I read in a Mills and Boon once:
"I stood before the bed, my girlfriend drapped across it. She looked onward, wanton and waiting, eagerly, for my weaponized self to burglarize her very existence....."
What? Too much? |
I don't know why, but DDD & Mills and Boon is not a combination I can easily see 
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The Hundredth Idiot
Joined: 01 Jul 2008
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:20 pm |
There're certain types in the UK (clue: find the Watford Gap on a map, then look south from there) who have an even more irritating pronounciation of certain words than the Yanks. C'mon, guys, it's "grass" not "graarse", "bath" not "baarth". And my (southern softie) mother-in-law has the audacity to take the mickey out of my accent ...  Frankly, if she heard some of the people I grew up with say "book", "cook", and even "water" she would struggle to recognise it as English at all. Regularise the spelling of them!
(Oh, yeah - back on topic: "yog-hurt" or "yo-gurt"; "herbs" or "'erbs"; "vit-a-mins" or "vi-ta-mins"; "nu-clear" or "nu-cu-lar"?)
Never be tempted to race against a Brompton. If you do, there are only two outcomes. Of these, by far the better is that you now have the scalp of a clown bike.
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lost_in_thought
Joined: 11 Jan 2008
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:28 pm |
| The Hundredth Idiot wrote: | There're certain types in the UK (clue: find the Watford Gap on a map, then look south from there) who have an even more irritating pronounciation of certain words than the Yanks. C'mon, guys, it's "grass" not "graarse", "bath" not "baarth". And my (southern softie) mother-in-law has the audacity to take the mickey out of my accent ... Frankly, if she heard some of the people I grew up with say "book", "cook", and even "water" she would struggle to recognise it as English at all. Regularise the spelling of them!
(Oh, yeah - back on topic: "yog-hurt" or "yo-gurt"; "herbs" or "'erbs"; "vit-a-mins" or "vi-ta-mins"; "nu-clear" or "nu-cu-lar"?) |
Well, if you're from the North, frankly, you ought to expect it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn3_bYcAnWI
I mean really.
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jimmypippa
Joined: 12 Dec 2008
Posts: 562
Location: Peak District
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:07 pm |
| Kieran_Burns wrote: | The one that drives me nuts is: "He was hung"
NO!!!
It is "He was HANGED"
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Unless you are referring to Il Duce.
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shouldbeinbed
Joined: 16 Sep 2009
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Posted Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:54 pm |
| Kieran_Burns wrote: | The one that drives me nuts is: "He was hung"
NO!!!
It is "He was HANGED"
muttermuttermutter |
Aye but lob the cadaver in a Gibbet afterwards and he'll have been hanged then hung.
It all went downhill when they stopped referring to it as Penal Servitude.
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