I've heard Oxford professors pronounce it 'seeg' so your younger selves were obviously, prestigiously correct.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:23 (three years ago) link
Same! xp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:24 (three years ago) link
I was at school when I figured it out so not shockingly old but it def took me a while to make the connection that the word I’d head people use and the word I’d read in books were in fact the same word
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:27 (three years ago) link
I used to enjoy the music of Pete Segwayer
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:30 (three years ago) link
then again I was shockingly old when I found out I'd been saying "lingerie" wrong for years
Sayg for me
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
i knew a 25 year old working in a steakhouse that asked customers if they wanted a "lib" of steak
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
she coulda also been very racist and asking the customer if they wanted a barbecued democrat
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
Seg-ew
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:42 (three years ago) link
When, in 1970, palaeontologist Lambert Beverley Halstead pointed out that "Scrotum" is a scientifically valid name and the first ever proposed for a dinosaur, a shudder went through the normally stolid taxonomic community.
I read this in a very entertaining chapter in a book about the geological history of Europe last night. Parties of giggling schoolchildren going to see the magnificent Scrotums at the natural history museum could have been a thing.
― calzino, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
Scrotusaurus Nutz
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
It’s one of those great “English is fucked up” things, segue and ague are both 2 syllables but the second syllable is pronounced completely differently in each case, and words like plague and league are only 1 syllable
― What fash heil is this? (wins), Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:04 (three years ago) link
English being fucked up is the only reason spelling bees are a thing. it's an event to spell words with no apparent rules
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:09 (three years ago) link
Speaking of English irregularities, I had always thought the band Ghoti Hook was pronounced like John Gotti. Later I remembered that saying (see below) and thought duh, the next work is "hook."
The word "ghoti" is a phonetic spelling of "fish”, invented in the 19th century as an example of the irregularities of English spelling. Pronunciation: the "GH" as in the word "rouGH", "O" as in "wOmen" and "TI" as in naTIon. However, the band pronounces its name more intuitively, as a homophone for "goatee".
And today I learned via Wiki that the band pronounces it "goatee" and that they were a Christian rock band.
― nickn, Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:45 (three years ago) link
lol I remember them from my Xtian days
when you're on a church retreat and only Christian music is allowed...
you just let your ears build up with wax until you cain't hear no more
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
I'm not seeing the point of naming yourself after a pronunciation joke and then not pronouncing it like that. Maybe the joke's on me, though, in the end.
― we are the village green evacuation society (Matt #2), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:12 (three years ago) link
They maybe they have fake beards that they put on a coathook when workday is done
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:13 (three years ago) link
When you spell out "ghoti" in Greek doesn't it spell Jesus?
― Josefa, Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
that's the ending to Indy and the Last Crusade iirc
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
Yeah I'd always just assumed 'seeg'.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
As in 'segue heil'?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
Yeah, was what I was thinking. Not sure what it was corrected the previous thought. Otherwise rhymes with league or something. So wonder if that's why it would be read that way.I always mentally voiced as I read it like seigs into something rather than segways.
& now a segway is a 2 wheel electric scooter with the wheels lateral instead of in sequence
― Stevolende, Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:27 (three years ago) link
Segway Segway Sputnik
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:37 (three years ago) link
I knew a college radio DJ who spelled it "segueway," which I guess captures both the pronunciation and alludes to the original word, which (while decidedly odd) has a sort of considerate sweetness to it.
― Okay, Boomerang (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:47 (three years ago) link
how do you pronounce seguidilla tho
― budo jeru, Saturday, 13 June 2020 17:55 (three years ago) link
This is brilliant
― kinder, Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
Often I feel a bit dim on ilx but I come onto threads like this and think na clearly I'm the cleverest of all
― kinder, Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:19 (three years ago) link
I was about 30 years old when I realized that whenever Snoop called someone a fuckin "B.G." that he meant "baby gangsta" and not a "Bee Gee", which I thought was his way of saying someone was old and out of touch (cos Bee Gees, 70s)
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Saturday, 13 June 2020 18:20 (three years ago) link
― kinder, Saturday, June 13, 2020 11:19 AM
Maybe you should be more kind, as your name implies.
― nickn, Saturday, 13 June 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
I always thought "kinder" implied that each post was like a little surprise!
― pplains, Saturday, 13 June 2020 21:08 (three years ago) link
Teeny Terrapin for you, pp!And none for Gretchen Wieners.
― kinder, Saturday, 13 June 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
I assumed kinder's profile name was a reference to children, have never heard of kinder surprise eggs before now
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:30 (three years ago) link
Kinder Surprise Eggs is a reference to children.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:50 (three years ago) link
of course, just wasn't imagining ninja turtles inside chocolate eggs
― Dan S, Saturday, 13 June 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
― pplains
For you to choke on!
― nickn, Saturday, 13 June 2020 23:05 (three years ago) link
― assert (MatthewK), Sunday, 14 June 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
I was once offered "Mein Strown" (Minestrone) soup at a restaurant.
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Sunday, 14 June 2020 07:55 (three years ago) link
That Woody Allen starred in a 1976 film called The Front.https://i.imgur.com/bVq3xYQ.jpg
― Alba, Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:35 (three years ago) link
Popped up on Amazon Prime and I thought I'd slipped into a parallel universe.
― Alba, Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:36 (three years ago) link
You've never seen it or heard of it? It's been on telly quite a few times over the years.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
Never heard of it
― Alba, Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:48 (three years ago) link
It was his attempt at being a serious actor.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Sunday, 14 June 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
The Front was actually the first 'Woody Allen movie' I ever saw since it was on TV.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 15 June 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
The name of the defunct British frozen food retailer Bejam was an acronym for Brian, Eric, John And Millie, the family members who were the company directors.
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Monday, 15 June 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
Pavlov’s dogs were eaten during the siege of Leningrad.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 15 June 2020 11:06 (three years ago) link
That rings a bell.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 11:13 (three years ago) link
(sorry)
the unwritten famine rules are: no longpiggery until there has been no confirmed barking or meowing for at least a few days.
― calzino, Monday, 15 June 2020 11:17 (three years ago) link
The name Lenin was an alias. His real name was Ulyanov.
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 15 June 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
That is pretty shocking.
― Subverted by buggery (Tom D.), Monday, 15 June 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link