Oh wait, I think that was your point.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
Or, God forbid, Des Moines.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, September 18, 2019 10:39 AM (twenty-three minutes ago)
this one hit a little close to home
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
Had an argument with the wife once about whether it is in fact correct to pronounce Notre Dame the university differently from Notre Dame the cathedral.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
I'm at a point where whatever people from hood x or y say is correct as far as I'm concerned. I struggled for years before embracing the French pronunciation of 'tupperware', though:
https://forvo.com/word/tupperware/#fr
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
(leyana's, that is.)
Also, I still vaguely cringe when I hear Spider-Man pronounced 'speeder-man'.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link
John Fahey a similarly juicy example
― ogmor, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
I have no idea how you pronounce John Fahey's name. Is this about to become a thing I was shockingly old when I learned it?
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
Sund4ar, what side of the argument were you on?
there are a ton of midwestern towns that have messed up pronunciations and eventually you just have to roll with it
Nevada (nuh-VAY-duh) and Madrid (mad-rid) come to mind
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link
Locals pronounce Prescott AZ as "Press-kit". Guy fixing my computer was adamant it should be "Press-cot" because that's how the guy it was named for pronounced his name. Pick your battles man! Just made him sound like a pompous tool.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
Is someone about to blow my mind by suggesting that 'Fahey' and a popular brand of Greek yogurt are homonyms, is that what's about to happen
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
As a general rule, no speaker of English should ever defer to the way Americans insist on pronouncing words. It's just bad form.
― Welcome To My Lifemare (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
I can't deal with Coeur D'Alene being pronounced "Cortle Lane" but I do it anyway
I draw the line at Louisville's preferred pronunciation as being "Lowvull" I will call it "Lew-i-ville" so the rest of the world doesn't look at me like an insane person
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:19 (four years ago) link
It's the same name; I can pronounce them the same. She was probably right. xp to mh
Residents of Windsor, ON, even ones who can speak French, are bizarre with the many French names in the city: "Pierre St" is pronounced "peery" even though no Windsorite would pronounce Pierre Trudeau's first name that way. The common surname "Dupuis" = "doopy"; "Ouellette Ave" = "oh-let", etc.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link
Shit like 'maudlin' for 'Magdalen' in Oxford comes across as a snobbish shibboleth. Maybe I'm being uncharitable.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
Cache le Poudre River is my local fave, you could get almost anything even locally. Usually just “Pooder River.”
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
My pretentious father had a predilection toward pronouncing certain European city names with exaggerated local pronuciation-- Paree, Praha, Veen, Köln. I started reciprocating by going all-in when talking about Göteborg and Linköping and Firenze and he eventually got the hint and stopped doing it.
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
road names are fun. Fleur Drive -> floo-er drive
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
I draw the line at pronouncing Milan - the football club - as Mee-lan because Milan is an English word, the club having been founded by Englishmen who used the English name for Milano.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:27 (four years ago) link
Likewise I'm not pronouncing Racing Club, Rah-seeng Cloob, or PSG as Pay-Ess-Zhay.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link
I spent way too much time putting together this video of Alex Trebek saying the word "genre," so now you have to RT it. Sorry, I don't make the rules pic.twitter.com/VacI730SJv— Alex Jacob (@whoisalexjacob) September 13, 2019
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
omg
― untuned mass damper (mh), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link
He's a native French speaker tbf.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
I had no idea. Or that he was even Canadian, for that matter. Thread strikes again.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
Fahey is pronounced with a short a and a properly aspirated h by the Irish (willing to defer here ofc) and British but is a kind of slurred Fay-hee (h almost gone) the way he said it
― ogmor, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link
The differences between FAY-hee and FAY-ee are so minimal. A close friend’s last name is Taheny (Sligo stock) and he’s fine with TAHN-ee tho most of us make the effort to respirate a TAH-hen-ee for the boy
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link
That horizontal comes from horizon. Wtf @ me.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:36 (four years ago) link
actual giggle at that one
yet they still call the popular snack Bombay Mix.
they don't tbf
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
afaict Kolkata sounds close enough to Calcutta that people have just carried on saying Calcutta.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
sorry, sorry, wait upBlack holes are named after the Black Hole of Calcutta Kolkata!whaaaaat
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
Okay, I might walk that back, the line in Wikipedia is
"According to Hong-Yee Chiu, a long-time astrophysicist at NASA, the Black Hole of Calcutta was the inspiration for the term black hole referring to regions of space-time resulting from the gravitational collapse of very heavy stars. He recalled hearing physicist Robert Dicke in the early 1960s compare such gravitationally collapsed objects to the infamous prison.
But the link is to an article titled "50 years later, it’s hard to say who named black holes" (which isn't there any more).
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
xp fgti - yeah it's mostly about the a, which dictates how you say the h
― ogmor, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
xpost, I think the black hole thing might be right. I just asked my spouse (astronomer who used to do most research on black holes) who coined it/why and he said Wheeler, because light doesn't escape blah blah. But we just looked up a bunch of things and he agrees that the above is good enough.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link
Awesome, thank you!
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 18 September 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
that 'romeo and juliet' by dire straits is about west side story lol
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 20 September 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
Penguin meat has just enough vitamin C in it to stave off scurvy
― Fox Pithole Britain (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 21 September 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
jesus man what kind of a bender are u on exactly
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 18 September 2019 18:32 (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink
fahey/fahy over here is pronounced fa-hee. there is no fay sound, and in general if the name is irish origin the american predilection to -ay would in fact similarly safely be held to be -ah round these parts
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Saturday, 21 September 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
Oh like fah-hee? Interesting! Once a year I fall into Irish vs. English naming conventions and I'm always surprised by something every time. Today it was that Darragh is not the Irish spelling but the Anglicized version of... Dara. Usually I'm scratching my chin over Muircheartach or whatever. I learned basic Gaelic pronunciation in my early 20s but not well-enough to process Irish stuff
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 21 September 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
are we not pronouncing the -gh with disgust when reading posts now
― untuned mass damper (mh), Sunday, 22 September 2019 01:42 (four years ago) link
That nakedness can be referred to as a “birthday suit,” because at birth you’re naked.
― Sam Weller, Sunday, 22 September 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
to my eternal shame fgti i self-changed to this spelling after meeting a girl that spelled it dara when i was small enough that this was an outrage
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 September 2019 09:51 (four years ago) link
William S. Burroughs’ son, of the same name, accidentally shot his best friend in the neck with a rifle when he was fifteen
nobody vaguely related to these people should be allowed near any sort of gun!
― mh, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
Shooting for his Adam's apple?
― nickn, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
A charwoman isn't a tealady - it's a different meaning of char, similar to chore.
― fetter, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 07:21 (four years ago) link
I could post on this thread 100 times a day, but it would only prove how stupid I am.
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:12 (four years ago) link
Been reading a lot on the Civil War lately, because I'm a middle-aged dad trying not to think about the mortgage payment.
And that's how I finally connected soldiers on the front line, what striking union members do when they protest and these things:
https://i.imgur.com/xujWe4b.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 25 September 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
xp yes the addition of a -gh is very manly.
If I was a boy named Fiona I'd def change it to Fionagh
― fgti (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link
Hughgh.
― Let them eat Pfifferlinge an Schneckensauce (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 September 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
scooby doo's birthname is scoobert doo
― mark s, Friday, 27 September 2019 18:20 (four years ago) link
lol, stop
― Steampunk wasn't in my vocapulary 6 days ago. (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
That might be the funniest thing I've read all week.
― Steampunk wasn't in my vocapulary 6 days ago. (Old Lunch), Friday, 27 September 2019 18:23 (four years ago) link