― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 29 June 2003 20:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 30 June 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 30 June 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 30 June 2003 11:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Bnad, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
OK, she's Canadian, so she pronounces it Moohn-tin, but its her name, she can pronounce it how she likes.
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
"FYE-ERRR" that is how that is pronounced, everyone I know says it like that. However I do not understand this "t" dropping nonsense, I can't even figure out how that would work, if I try to say it like that I cannot.
My sister is like physically incapable of pronouncing the letter g if it is anywhere in a word besides the very start, which is odd.
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 21:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
(in Texas "fire" is pronounced "far," obv)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link
i love the collegian bicoastal accent (er i wrote 'college girl' there which may be poor on my part, but i associate it with a) a girl in my program, b) a girl i uh met in d.c. and c) kathleen hanna) where the vowels are overrounded and at the front of the mouth, sort of valley girl (again with the girl thing, sorry!) but not really. conv. btw aforementioned girl b. and me:b: we could hang out on my reef.g: what?b: is that okay?g: your reef?b: my REWF.g: haha oh your ROOFb: dewn't make fun of me, minneapolis
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:28 (twenty years ago) link
― winterland, Monday, 1 March 2004 18:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:38 (twenty years ago) link
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Pack" To: darrenSent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 6:47 PMSubject: Social with Ming Campbell MPJust a reminder that the Lib Dem spring social is a buffet supper with Ming Campbell, the Liberal Democrats' Shadow Foreign Secretary.It's from 7:30pm on Wednesday 3rd March at 20 North Grove, Highgate. The recommended price is £8.50 (£4.50 for pensioners / claimants, children free).― darren (darren), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link
Just a reminder that the Lib Dem spring social is a buffet supper with Ming Campbell, the Liberal Democrats' Shadow Foreign Secretary.
It's from 7:30pm on Wednesday 3rd March at 20 North Grove, Highgate. The recommended price is £8.50 (£4.50 for pensioners / claimants, children free).
― darren (darren), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:43 (twenty years ago) link
― darren (darren), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
Funny, trying to teach my Spanish English-teachers who have Britsh-tinged-Spanish-accents to pronounce words, I've decided that British English has fewer distinct vowel sounds. At least the "short" vowels: like the a in cat is a short vowel, or the i in bit.
But now that you mention it, all the vowels in combination with R are different for Brits, but not for Americans. We just say stuff differently.
― allida, Friday, 20 January 2006 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
But surely fillet is distinct from filet - the latter is meant to be pronounced as the French would, the former has been anglicised with the extra "l" to allow it to be pronounced, er, fillet.
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link
ah, dictionary tells me: fillet and filet are both correct spellings but have essentially the same meanings, though the former can be pronounced both ways and the latter only the hard t way (yet the filet entry gives the example of filet mignon with the pronunciation of filay...). I suppose my issue is that these are French words whose pronunciation has been changed, yet there are other French words whose pronunciation stays the same. I just wonder about how arbitrary that change is, y'know, why it happens sometimes and not other times.
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
POYM!
― having fun with stockholm cindy on stage (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
*neither would i, what in the hell are you talking about
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
It's VAHZ, Laurel (in this country anyway).
(xpost, JBR, my teachers insisted on PO-YIM! Or POME!)
― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
XP: Robyn, do you do the flat "a" in drama and pasta? See, now that gives me a real shudder, but I think all the Canadians I knew (and loved) in college used both of them!
― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
but she sure as hell does say DRAHH-ma.
― Thea (Thea), Monday, 6 February 2006 22:59 (eighteen years ago) link