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We're almost home Dana, I figured out the jumpers (translated it into bases for pick up baseball) but Ice cream vans on a Sunday? Did they not come round all summer long?
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04-07-2010, 05:46 PM
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Now I can quit anticipating the Tim Burton Alice In Wonderland -- finally saw it last night, 2-D, though it's still playing in 3-D some places. Very very good, just Tim Burton-y enough, without being too much. Best Cheshire Cat I've seen, and Johnny Depp's recital of "Jabberwocky" will probably cause everyone to use hard G's for "gyre and gimble."
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04-07-2010, 05:49 PM
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Wait, what? Didn't you already use hard 'g's for gyre and gimble?
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04-07-2010, 05:54 PM
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 are you really surprised? I mean REALLY?....guess how they pronounce fungi... yes, they do....
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04-07-2010, 05:56 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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Fuck off, no...really?
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04-07-2010, 05:57 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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mmm-hmmm. We went for a walk in the woods a couple of days ago. I mean, it's great that the kids knew so much about the stuff, but I nearly imploded....
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04-07-2010, 06:01 PM
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We have to go back, Kate!
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hahahahaha. That's so funny :P
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04-07-2010, 07:09 PM
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Ahem... Just to be clear, UG's pronunciation of things is not to be taken as the norm. I, for one, have always said "gyre" and "gimble" with a hard G, and I also say fungi with a hard G... because it's critical to the classic punchline, "Why not? I'm a fun-guy!"
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04-07-2010, 07:13 PM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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I think I used the soft G for "gyre" until I read the Annotated Alice.
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04-07-2010, 07:19 PM
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gyre is a word I don't know, but the other two have hard G's for me.
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04-07-2010, 07:31 PM
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I say gyre with a hard G, but gyroscope with a soft G. Funny.
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04-07-2010, 07:32 PM
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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04-07-2010, 07:36 PM
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I hear them call the tide
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yebbut that's merkin. No-one says gyroscope with a hard-on. I mean hard one. g that is.
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04-07-2010, 11:50 PM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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Hm. I misremembered. I just checked, and neither Martin Gardner nor Humpty Dumpty had anything to say about the pronunciation of gyre.
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04-07-2010, 11:58 PM
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fungi (fun′jī′, fuŋ′gī′) You seem to forget, you guys are the ones that talk funny. 
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