the correct pronunciation annoys me because seeeeg sounds like a smooth transition whereas segway trips itself up in the middle of the word.
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 25 September 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
TIL Godspeed You! Black Emperor took their name from a Japanese biker documentary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Speed_You!_Black_Emperor
― nickn, Sunday, 25 September 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
And it's playing on catodetv.com right now.
― nickn, Sunday, 25 September 2022 20:24 (one year ago) link
― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl), Sunday, 25 September 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
basic humour alert (i like it)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ69ny57pR0
for a while i thought "segway" was just a comedy way of "seeg" and i would always laugh when i heard people say it
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 25 September 2022 20:59 (one year ago) link
I mispronounce words like this all the time; my reading vocabulary is way ahead of my speaking. The funniest instance was in middle school when I excitedly told my friends about this thing I read about when three people have sex together called a menaj a tree-o.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 26 September 2022 01:39 (one year ago) link
the OG:The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. [...]
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. [...]
Ah, but double the psalm number to 46 in the King James Bible, and things get intriguing. Why multiply by two? Well, there are two references here:
– The 46th word from the start (disregarding the parenthesised opening dedication) is "shake".– The 46th word from the end (disregarding the standard formula "Selah") is "spear".
Clearly, Shakespeare was a 23er and translated this one for old Jim.
― anatol_merklich, Monday, 26 September 2022 06:31 (one year ago) link
segue came into ordinary english from music jargon: it may look kinda french but like a lot of musical instructions it's italian, hence the pronunciation
in music it means "follow on without pause or break" (which i guess DJs picked up from band-leaders, who knows) (it's not like they're fluently dropping furioso ma non troppo hither and thither, but it is a good term for good pauseless DJing so there you go)
― mark s, Monday, 26 September 2022 10:02 (one year ago) link
Instructions for DJs at my college radio station, circa 1989, spelled it "segueway," in a doomed attempt to have it both ways.
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 26 September 2022 16:37 (one year ago) link
in my brain that's how it was spelled, instinctively
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link
do any latin based words ending in "gue" share that pronuanciation? Cannot think of any
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
brb checking my catalogway of words now
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
Merengue, the dance (not meringue, the food)
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
lol @ Hunt3r
AHH YES! xp
― i'm intentionally vague, intending to front multitudes (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/words-that-end-in-gue
233 words, but only true heads will know how many are derived from latin
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 19:17 (one year ago) link
Portsea Island is the third most populous island in the "British Isles" after Great Britain and Ireland.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
... population 207,100 (I didn't even know it existed!)
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:25 (one year ago) link
Try Guys
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:29 (one year ago) link
xp I mean it's most of Portsmouth, and it's only an island on a technicality.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
Still a good pub quiz question.
― Narada Michael Fagan (Tom D.), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:36 (one year ago) link
https://www.ezglot.com/words-ending-with.php?w=gue&l=ita&l2=&length=&submit=Search
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
Looking at the least-populated islands in the British Isles, some very odd ones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lundyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calf_of_Manhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B9mhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foulness_Island
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 21:48 (one year ago) link
The most-populated ones are kinda odd too.
― pplains, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
Calf of Man's lighthouses built by Robert Stevenson, grandfather of Robert Louis Stevenson
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:41 (one year ago) link
lundy island was just all over the lore of the puffin club
(i guess bcz lundi means puffin in norse, something i only just learned)
https://www.barterbooks.co.uk/catalog/images/books/ppt201.jpg
― mark s, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
I just learned this week that puffins visit the Farallon Islands right outside San Francisco Bay
I had no idea they ventured this far south
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:52 (one year ago) link
Lundy = knights templar, puffins, "self-proclaimed king Martin Harman", pirates & wreckers, gets a shout-out in the shipping forecast, quite a Big Deal for a barely-populated island.
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
HEY
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
You are talking about my kindred
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 28 September 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
We can dig it.
― nickn, Wednesday, 28 September 2022 00:54 (one year ago) link
what a 'try guy' is
― mookieproof, Thursday, 29 September 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
I'm hoping to never learn
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 29 September 2022 01:14 (one year ago) link
I vaguely knew that Alsatians were a dog breed but I guess I'd never been curious enough to discover that they're just German shepherds utilizing an alias.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Thursday, 29 September 2022 12:26 (one year ago) link
of Glen Ballard's involvement in Thriller and Bad, and writing credit on "Man in the Mirror"
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 29 September 2022 14:21 (one year ago) link
After detour through the Glen Ballard Wikipedia links, I learned that Ringo is putting out a record every year of late.
― bendy, Friday, 30 September 2022 11:45 (one year ago) link
Wow, wonder who is buying them apart from Rob Sheffield?
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 September 2022 12:17 (one year ago) link
Calling the breed Alsatian or German Shepard is just another point of contention in the ages old border dispute between France and Germany over the Alsace region.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 30 September 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
Disputed Terri(tory)ers
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 September 2022 18:24 (one year ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolley_Kibberhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colley_Cibber
― koogs, Saturday, 1 October 2022 06:32 (one year ago) link
https://fullhouse.fandom.com/wiki/Kimmy_Gibbler
― circa1916, Saturday, 1 October 2022 06:48 (one year ago) link
(xp) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0714457/?ref_=tt_ch
Cell-mates Titus Oates and Colly Kibber plan a robbery together whilst they are in prison. However, when they are released, they stage a dramatic fight to give Regan the impression that they have fallen out with each other. Regan trails Kibber, believing that he may have killed Oates, but this is just the diversion the two villains are looking for, leaving Oates to put the criminal plan into place.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2022 10:19 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeKLydy_nTM
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 October 2022 10:22 (one year ago) link
Crinkle-crankle walls use fewer bricks than straight ones which need at least two layers of bricks for strength: here arch support provided by the curves. I like them because they teach that a straight line is not always the best model, true for poetry and us all. pic.twitter.com/o62JUYnKXc— Ian Duhig (@ianduhig) October 10, 2022
― koogs, Tuesday, 11 October 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
That Suella Braverman actually was named after Sue-Ellen from Dallas.
― Alba, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 12:20 (one year ago) link
Was born two weeks after JR was shot! Sue Ellen Ewing was in a really bad state at that point, so that was an interesting choice.
― Josefa, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 12:44 (one year ago) link
This week I realized “brainstorm” is a play on “rainstorm”
I also recently realized “Van Morrison” isn’t one surname. I always thought the Van was a prefix - I took me realizing Morrison isn’t a Dutch name to consider it. Then I looked it up and saw it’s short for Ivan (also learned Ivan can be Van). Growing up I didn’t really encounter any Vans, and also lumped Van Morrison and Donovan together so kind of just assumed it was a mononym.
― ed.b, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
never thought about brainstorm/rainstorm
there was a period in the UK when people had decided that the word "brainstorm" was offensive to people with epilepsy but my ex contacted a few campaingning groups who said they thought that was bollocks
― saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link
i did used to think Van was his middle Dutch name tho :D
i mean fuck it, orangemen
I knew a kid whose middle name was Van.
Looked it up in the SSA's baby name registry and it has never left the top 1000 names! Morrison's birth year, 1945, is pretty close to peak Van though. It topped out the next year at 265.
― peace, man, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 13:27 (one year ago) link