This was several years ago now, but I was still "shockingly old" to have learned how "tinnitus" was pronounced.
My entire life, everyone I knew pronounced it as "TI-NIGHT-TUS" and it was only my wife's doctor pronouncing it, correctly, or so I'm told, as "TINN-IT-US".
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 19:59 (one year ago) link
Tomayto-Tinnitus
I think both are more or less accepted, or at least I hear both used
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:05 (one year ago) link
Yeah, I've since read that both are acceptable, but it was still a bit of a surprise to hear.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:15 (one year ago) link
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, March 7, 2023 2:05 PM
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, March 7, 2023 2:15 PM
I can't hear anything because of all the tinnitus.
― pplains, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
my left ear 24/7/365 - not just loud live music over the years, but the drum was punctured by a yew tree branch, and I had a tropical fungal infection.. I'm surprised I can even hear the ringing anymore
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 21:00 (one year ago) link
yore eere has lived a wild life!
i just learned that new zealand has almost zero native mammals! something like 3 species of bat before the māori brought over rats and dogs. that seems like something i shld have known!!
their only other mammal was someone called "saint bathans mammal" back in the mists of fossilized time,
notable for being a late-surviving "archaic" mammal species, neither a placental nor a marsupial
― the royal y'all (cat), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 21:28 (one year ago) link
“tin-eye-tus” is not acceptable and not correct fyi
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
The record label EmArcy comes from MRC — Mercury Record Company.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 22:44 (one year ago) link
I was in my 30s before I learned that the record label K7! is pronounced "cassette" in French
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
oooh, good one!
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Tuesday, 7 March 2023 22:51 (one year ago) link
Operation Barbarossa - the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union - involved 600,000 horses
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 March 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
The pronunciation of forecastle
― AlanSmithee, Thursday, 9 March 2023 23:35 (one year ago) link
always good to come across the word "foc's'le" whilst reading
― koogs, Friday, 10 March 2023 03:11 (one year ago) link
tracer hand otmand while we're on the subject, I try to share this every time it's mentioned near me: it's possible to have a respite from tinnitus by putting your hands over your ears, fingers toward the back (like a "perp walk" hands on head, but with the palms covering your ears). While keeping your hands there, drum your fingers rapidly on the back of your head for 30s to a minute. Lift your hands off, and hopefully enjoy a little silence.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 10 March 2023 04:33 (one year ago) link
I remember reading how expensive it was to stage a military campaign on horseback in medieval times in a book on that time which presumably doesn't change much when moved forward to the 20th century. Possibly much easier to transport horses on other transport for teh bulk of teh distance so less food/other maintenance. But 600,000 horses is an expense in itself. That is just a number and doesn't say where they were coming from and needing to be moved to to take part. But daily maintenance is pretty high anyway.I think medieval era would be ship to bulkhead point and then overland under own steam. 700 or whatever years later you do have train and plane though not sure if latter would have been used at all. Not sure how they respond to flight. Also lorry of course..But food, some place to house etc etc is a logistic.
― Stevo, Friday, 10 March 2023 07:29 (one year ago) link
Horses can double as food of course.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Friday, 10 March 2023 07:39 (one year ago) link
The existence of the word forecastle.
― Alba, Friday, 10 March 2023 08:22 (one year ago) link
also their bats spend more time on the ground than in the air
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2wjXRTd1vU
― Number None, Friday, 10 March 2023 12:13 (one year ago) link
Scott Walker did a version of (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction.
― Zelda Zonk, Friday, 10 March 2023 12:40 (one year ago) link
Three people - Bobby Bare and Johnny Cash and Kenny Rogers - released versions of "The Gambler" in 1978.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 March 2023 12:53 (one year ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, March 7, 2023 4:56 PM (three days ago)
wait what, this isn't true, at least not in North America: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinnitus
― rob, Friday, 10 March 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
c'mon, it's tin-ear-tus obviously
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Friday, 10 March 2023 13:58 (one year ago) link
“-itis” is a suffix that means there’s inflammation of the thing preceding it eg appendicitis, menengitis, etc but tinnitus is not constructed this way or spelled this way, “tinn” is not a name of an anatomical structure, and it is not caused by inflammation
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:01 (one year ago) link
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tinnitus
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
this is gonna be the "GIF/JIF" thing isn't it
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 March 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
tintinnabulation!Think Hergé used to dabble in that from time to time.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:07 (one year ago) link
I can't tell if Tracer is arguing for his preferred pronunciation or posting another thing he was shockingly old when he learned?
― rob, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:19 (one year ago) link
I also did not know the etymology of tinnitus until today, but it doesn't matter wrt pronunciation!
― rob, Friday, 10 March 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link
do you know about focsle?
― conrad, Friday, 10 March 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
i learned that dunedin is pronounced like "done-eden." mostly i had just never heard it said out loud so in my head the emphasis was on the first syllable with a short e
― na (NA), Friday, 10 March 2023 15:21 (one year ago) link
did you learn this because of scotland or new zealand or the spring training home of the blue jays
― mookieproof, Friday, 10 March 2023 16:17 (one year ago) link
lol the latter for me
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
NZ, i was watching a bunch of verlaines clips on youtube and there was an announcer who mentioned dunedin on one of them
― na (NA), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:38 (one year ago) link
actually i learned it at a Shoney's, I'd just pushed my plate aside and the waiter said "Dunedin?"
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
I only recently learned that another nautical word, gunwales, is pronounced 'gunnels'. Daft sailors.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:21 (one year ago) link
I only recently figured out that laird is just lord said in a Scots accent. I mean, of course it is, but ...
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:28 (one year ago) link
Cripes also did not know that
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:31 (one year ago) link
Well, it's lord in Scots, rather than lord in a Scottish accent.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:38 (one year ago) link
I don't know what Scottish accents would pronounce "lord" as "laird", although admittedly the vowels are all over the place in Scottish accents.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:39 (one year ago) link
that's why I said Scots?
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:44 (one year ago) link
Yes, but Scots isn't just English with an accent, right?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:47 (one year ago) link
no they have a common ancestry, I'm just coming at it from speaking boring old English
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 11 March 2023 11:57 (one year ago) link
I'm just being a bit picky because Scottish English and Scots are two different things - hardly anyone actually speaks Scots anymore, outside of a Burns' Supper.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:04 (one year ago) link
tbf I'm Scottish myself and don't know enough about Scots, which is why it took me so long to make the laird-lord connection as no one I've ever known would pronounce lord that way. I do have distant relatives up Inverness/Elgin way though, maybe one of those might get close!
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:08 (one year ago) link
I wonder how James is getting on with his Scots...
Scottish Gaelic, Scots an aw
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2023 12:10 (one year ago) link
You rang?
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 14:00 (one year ago) link
Somebody must speak Scots, I have a few dictionaries and a grammar book to prove it. Anyway, I will take it over to the other thread.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 14:02 (one year ago) link
Ok so I knew that Toni Basil had been a reasonably prominent dancer and choreographer.
I don't think I knew she'd worked with Bowie on "Diamond Dogs."
I definitely didn't know she is my mother's age (born 1943) which would make her about 31 in 1974 and 38 in 1981.
And finding out that "Mickey" is actually a cover was also a surprise.
Carry on, make of that what you will.
― Minivan Morrison (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:33 (one year ago) link
She was also in Easy Rider.
― awaiting the ILX acquihire (PBKR), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:36 (one year ago) link
and Five Easy Pieces
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 15 March 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link