Have never thought of them as not being Leftenant Pigeon
― A good "sexy time " album (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 May 2018 07:09 (six years ago) link
my dad was a flight lieutenant in the RAF, and we've always said leftenant. definitely leftenant pigeon for me
― chant down basildon (NickB), Sunday, 27 May 2018 07:26 (six years ago) link
I’ve always pronounced it lieutenant cause not having any interest in the military growing up I’d have only seen it written down or heard in American films I think. The standard Brit way of saying it is still the most bonkers pronunciation/spelling mismatch to me
― Elonio Grimesci (wins), Sunday, 27 May 2018 07:35 (six years ago) link
http://www.thecholmondeleys.org/cholmondeleys.gif
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 27 May 2018 08:34 (six years ago) link
Yeah there are a few proper names like that (st John & Magdalene are milder examples) but I’m racking my brains trying to think of another word that’s analogous to lieutenant conjuring up an f out of nowhere; usually when English does the “I’m gonna just say a different word to what’s written here thanks” thing it’s more like weskit, blaggard where letters are elided, not added in
― Elonio Grimesci (wins), Sunday, 27 May 2018 08:52 (six years ago) link
There's no R in colonel.
― and she could see an earmuff factory (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 27 May 2018 09:09 (six years ago) link
True! I guess because many Brits (the ones who don’t say the r on the end of a word) say it “cuh-nel” I was counting it as one of the missing-letters-out set
― Elonio Grimesci (wins), Sunday, 27 May 2018 09:18 (six years ago) link
that even people from the British government used to refer to Australia as New Holland right up to the mid 19th century.
― calzino, Sunday, 27 May 2018 12:15 (six years ago) link
wait until you hear about this new South Wales I found
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
just learned in last year that there are finger plastic things that help you flip through paper super fast and these are now essential with magazine reading for ease of use
― California scheming (Ross), Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
rotgutt blew my mind re open sesame, never knew that
― California scheming (Ross), Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:41 (six years ago) link
I'm pretty sure you still don't
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:48 (six years ago) link
xxxp sic
Can't we deport the Manic Street Preachers there pls? I was just surprised the British government was still referring to it as New Holland in official correspondences almost a century after they had claimed the continent.
― calzino, Sunday, 27 May 2018 19:49 (six years ago) link
it's been 200 years for NSW but I'm still keen for a better name
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 27 May 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
as long as they don't name it after one of the current conga line of apparently invincible right wing fuckholes i don't care what they call it tbh
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 27 May 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
New South Brexitlandia
― we used to get our kicks reading surfing MAGAzines (sic), Sunday, 27 May 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
New South Fucking Milton Keynes of Death!
― calzino, Sunday, 27 May 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
I get places like "New England" or "New York/New Amsterdam", but I never got "New South Wales".
I understand there's a region called South Wales, but why not have just named the state "New Wales"? It'd be akin to some guy from Nebraska landing on Mars and calling the area "New Midwest America".
― pplains, Sunday, 27 May 2018 22:35 (six years ago) link
The people of New Rees-Mogg expressed surprise when, after dynamiting the links to the nearby landmass, they did not start to float away off.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 27 May 2018 22:54 (six years ago) link
In his original journal covering the survey, in triplicate to satisfy Admiralty Orders, Cook first named the land New Wales, however, in the copy held by the Admiralty, he revised the wording to New South Wales.
― Number None, Sunday, 27 May 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
Christ, who would want to live in New Wales, the old one is bad enough.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 May 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYQb3FtJfm0
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Sunday, 27 May 2018 23:46 (six years ago) link
Vase is one I heard both ways growing up, although the ahhh version I heard as more a snooty Kennedyism as opposed to an attempt at a French pronunciation. Same people who would say take a bahhhth.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, May 26, 2018 4:23 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The weird Kennedy New England accent is still something that I'm not used to even after living in Boston for so long.
Bahhhth is the weirdest one to me. I remember the first time I heard someone up here say that. So weird.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:42 (six years ago) link
Even growing up around it was weird. It was jarring when I'd hear a grandparent pronounce it that way.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 May 2018 14:49 (six years ago) link
mag wheels were called mag wheels because they were... made from magnesium
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 30 May 2018 21:59 (six years ago) link
Background to the garbage strike that King delivered the I Have a dream speech to an audience in.Black garbage men couldn't shelter from the rain anywhere in Memphis so climbed into their compactor and the broom they were using to keep the thing open shifted meaning they got crushed.
Only heard it this afternoon.Think I'd heard about the speech being during the garbage man strike a few years ago
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
That everyone sucks.
― Ross, Wednesday, 30 May 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
What the word "feckless" means.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 1 June 2018 04:02 (five years ago) link
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NLnPU2wMsg0/UOuZgcXlfmI/AAAAAAAAAHk/B-VBYbj7v-A/s1600/riversedgefeck.jpg
― mookieproof, Friday, 1 June 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
LOL ok I didnt know this either and it seems so obvious now I do.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 1 June 2018 05:41 (five years ago) link
Obviously not a reader of right wing UK rags or habitue of Tory Party conferences.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 June 2018 07:25 (five years ago) link
That "indicted" is actually the same as the word that's pronounced "in-DITE-ed".
Thanks, The Good Fight!
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 1 June 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
OHHH
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 1 June 2018 12:06 (five years ago) link
Now I feel bad for the verb 'indite'
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 1 June 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
And yet 'interdict' is pronounced 'enter-DICKED'. Whoever invented English (Thomas Edison, I think?) really should've tried a little harder.
― My Favorte People Call Me Dad Soft Toddler (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 June 2018 12:20 (five years ago) link
First time I noticed the word feckless was on roisin Murphy’s song “hairless toys”
“Wreckless, feckless, careless talk”
― Ross, Friday, 1 June 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
What do Americans use instead of feckless, or are there no feckless Americans?
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
Some of us use feckless. There are plenty of Americans with a marked deficiency of feck.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:12 (five years ago) link
I’m Canadian but I would probably use irresponsible, weak or futile
― Ross, Friday, 1 June 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link
Talking of which, I used to think it was less bad to call someone a cunt in America than here (Scotland not included) but now I don't know any more.
I feel like maybe the word gets used against women more in the US, but this may be based mostly on this latest case and that Curb episode.
― Alba, Friday, 1 June 2018 14:39 (five years ago) link
There is nowhere it is less bad to call a woman that than in America afaict
― valorous wokelord (silby), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
I mean more bad. It is very bad here.
The word is almost exclusively used against women in the US and therefore has a much more misogynistic connotation over here.
― On the Wingers of Love: The Kip & Debra Story (Old Lunch), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:42 (five years ago) link
Yes, I think that's the difference.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
p sure i was mixing up "feckless" & "guileless" well into my 30s
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
re thread subject: Old Whites would prefer the world burn to a crisp with their grandkids on it than modify their lifestyles or beliefs one iota.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:54 (five years ago) link
(xp| Can I throw gormless into the mix?
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:57 (five years ago) link
ha yep
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Friday, 1 June 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
yeah 'cunt' is a 'bad word' in the UK but depending on the situation and location it can get thrown around a lot, more usually to describe a man I'd say
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Friday, 1 June 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
i've always used feckless to mean lazy or idle. is that wrong?
― Toto Cuomo (NickB), Friday, 1 June 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link