11-28-2005, 07:16 AM | #91 | |
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11-28-2005, 07:28 AM | #92 |
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Like when some hip-hop, trash-talking, "can I axe yew..." saying ebonics-loving moron then gets all Right and Proper and says Aunt like "Ahhhh-unt".
I hate that.
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11-28-2005, 10:30 AM | #93 |
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How about mixed metaphors - one guy in our office a few years back used to say quite regularly that he would keep his ear to the grindstone to see if anything cropped up....
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11-28-2005, 10:33 AM | #94 |
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I knew someone who claimed to have "eagle ears" meaning he had good hearing...
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11-28-2005, 01:01 PM | #97 | |
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11-28-2005, 01:25 PM | #98 |
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I dated a girl who pronounced 'lightning' (2 syllables, weather phenomenon) as 'lightninin' (3 syllables). I finally sat down with her and made her sound out the 2 syllables separately, which she did fine. Put em together, though, and the magical 3rd "in" gets attached. She had a master's degree, but refused to pronounce it right, because her daddy said it that way.
I fed her to hogs. With a side of "pasghetti". Dad and mom went to "hy-WY-ah" and whilst attending a luau, heard some pretty GIT-tar music. Dad also calls the German car manufacturer "mar-say-deez". The other is "Volswagon" The British one is Jagwire.
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11-28-2005, 05:28 PM | #99 |
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Lightning is a noun. Lightningin' is a verb.
Question; A Vegan, as in non-meateater. Is it pronounced Vej-en or Veg-en?
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11-28-2005, 05:32 PM | #100 | |
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11-28-2005, 05:36 PM | #101 |
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I have only heard vee-gen, with the "g" as in "get".
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11-28-2005, 09:59 PM | #102 | |
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I did once use the English spelling for "colour" in a spelling test. I knew it would be counted incorrect, but this was a sophomore high school class and I had to do something to entertain myself.
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11-29-2005, 03:14 AM | #103 |
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How is Jaguar pronounced in the States then? Assume its Jag-waar. That sounds funny to me
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11-29-2005, 09:22 AM | #105 |
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People round here call a Jag-waar this: "One of them there ferr-in cars."
The only reason I know to say Jag-U-ahr is because of Pink Floyd.
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