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squirell nutkin · 04-02-2010, 08:29 PM

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?

Urbane Guerrilla · 04-07-2010, 05:46 PM

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."

DanaC · 04-07-2010, 05:49 PM

Wait, what? Didn't you already use hard 'g's for gyre and gimble?

monster · 04-07-2010, 05:54 PM

no

are you really surprised? I mean REALLY?

....guess how they pronounce fungi... yes, they do....

DanaC · 04-07-2010, 05:56 PM

Fuck off, no...really?

monster · 04-07-2010, 05:57 PM

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....

DanaC · 04-07-2010, 06:01 PM

hahahahaha. That's so funny :P

Clodfobble · 04-07-2010, 07:09 PM

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!"

Happy Monkey · 04-07-2010, 07:13 PM

I think I used the soft G for "gyre" until I read the Annotated Alice.

glatt · 04-07-2010, 07:19 PM

gyre is a word I don't know, but the other two have hard G's for me.

Spexxvet · 04-07-2010, 07:31 PM

I say gyre with a hard G, but gyroscope with a soft G. Funny.

Spexxvet · 04-07-2010, 07:32 PM

miriam-webster says gyre with a soft G

http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-b...?gyre0001=gyre

Urbane Guerrilla · 04-08-2010, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

I say gyre with a hard G, but gyroscope with a soft G. Funny.

I followed the paradigm set by "gyroscope." But the switching, from first soft G then hard, tended to make me stutter, reciting. Hard G in both, all right, that should clear that up.

Webster's Third supports the soft G pronunciation, not the hard... which other pronunciation curiously enough means "a malignant spirit or spook" in Scots. Something new every day.

Hard-G for "gimble" as in "gimbal" (which goes both ways) is just fun.

monster · 04-07-2010, 07:36 PM

yebbut that's merkin. No-one says gyroscope with a hard-on. I mean hard one. g that is.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-07-2010, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

yebbut that's merkin. No-one says gyroscope with a hard-on. I mean hard one. g that is.

gyro·scope (jī′rō skōp′, -rə-)

fungi (fun′jī′, fuŋ′gī′)

You seem to forget, you guys are the ones that talk funny.

04-02-2010, 08:29 PM	#1
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04-07-2010, 05:54 PM	#4
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	no are you really surprised? I mean REALLY? ....guess how they pronounce fungi... yes, they do.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-07-2010, 05:57 PM	#6
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	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.... __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

04-07-2010, 07:09 PM	#8
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	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!" __________________ My book My other book My spirit animal

04-07-2010, 07:13 PM	#9
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	I think I used the soft G for "gyre" until I read the Annotated Alice. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

04-07-2010, 07:19 PM	#10
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	gyre is a word I don't know, but the other two have hard G's for me.

04-07-2010, 07:31 PM	#11
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	I say gyre with a hard G, but gyroscope with a soft G. Funny. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

04-07-2010, 07:32 PM	#12
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	miriam-webster says gyre with a soft G http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-b...?gyre0001=gyre __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

04-07-2010, 07:36 PM	#14
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	yebbut that's merkin. No-one says gyroscope with a hard-on. I mean hard one. g that is. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

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