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OT Humour - Written & Spoken English
Houston Street in downtown Manhattan (NYC) is
pronounced HOUSE-ton, not YOUS-ton. From that comes the trendy area called SoHo, for South of Houston. In most American places, the name Pulaski (Hero of American Revolution) is Pu-LAS-key or Pa-Laskey. In the small town of Pulaski, Virginia, it is PEW-lasskey. PAT, a font of trivia! klh in VA wrote: Houston .... in georgia (state of, usa) pronounced houseton in texas, (no comment on) pronounced hueston klh in va |
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My Granma used to "wrinch" the clothes out--and she was born/raised in
Illinois. G Pati, in Phx Sunny wrote: If any of you are from rural Texas you'll recognize these: corner -- prounounced "co'ner" -- keeping the long o but dropping the r rinse -- pronounced "wrench" that there -- pronounced "at air" -- as in "at air old truck is on his last legs." There are millions more. I had a professor in college (Baylor University) who was writing a book on Texasisms. I don't know if he finished it or not. I suspect it could be an open-ended volume. Sunny |
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That isn't really so odd. If it is a Spanish/Mexican type name.
Remember that "Mexico" is pronounced "Me-hi-co", and with a vowel on each side of the "x" the "h" sound would be sort of blended in. So Bexar could sound like "be-ar" very easily, one of those almost 2 syllable words. BG Pati, in Phx, who also has to watch any out of the ordinary words with "LL" in them. It is automatically assumed to be pronounced with a "y" (as in the starting sound of "yellow") sound. Sunny wrote: I've got a place name oddity for you from Texas. The name is spelled "Bexar".... probably named for some long ago settler. It's pronounced exactly the same as "bare" as in "Oh my, the baby's run outside bare again." I learned the correct pronunciation the hard way. I was a disc jockey for a tiney FM radio station when I was in college. We played "easy listening" music. I read the news and weather on the hour and half hour. Bexar county was one of the ones that always led the list of neighboring counties with tornado alerts. Of course, I said it wrong the first time I read it on the air, mangling the name by trying to get that "x" in there somewhere. Within minutes the phone began to ring. Oh my, who knew we had that many listeners? And so many from Bexar County?? Sunny |
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Interesting about SoHo
Out here newsreaders would say Hews-ton no matter where the place they were talking about lol -- Cheryl & the Cats in OZ o o o o o o ( Y ) ( Y ) and ( Y ) Boofhead Donut Rasputin http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "Pat in Virginia" wrote in message ... : Houston Street in downtown Manhattan (NYC) is : pronounced HOUSE-ton, not YOUS-ton. From that comes the : trendy area called SoHo, for South of Houston. : : In most American places, the name Pulaski (Hero of : American Revolution) is Pu-LAS-key or Pa-Laskey. In : the small town of Pulaski, Virginia, it is PEW-lasskey. : : PAT, a font of trivia! : : klh in VA wrote: : : Houston .... : in georgia (state of, usa) pronounced houseton : in texas, (no comment on) pronounced hueston : : klh in va : |
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I have heard visitors talk about Bare County but had never
given a thought to how it was spelled! I just assumed it was "Bear" County lol How would you pronounce Uluru? http://www.crystalinks.com/ayersrock.html Most Australians would have no problem pronouncing Oo-la-roo .. . . . . . but they might not be able to spell it correctly. This often happens with Aboriginal names because they had no written language at the time of European settlement. We Aussies tend to "clip" our pronounciations, as for the town that - correctly - was named Wagga Wagga, but is now known as Wagga. Pronunciation = Wogguh. There are many such. We chuckle to hear our cities' names drawn out in pronounciations by visitors. For us Melbourne is Mel-b'n and Brisbain is Bris-b'n, and Adelaide is Ad'l-aid. And of cource my local town of Horsham is Hor-sh'm -- Cheryl & the Cats in OZ o o o o o o ( Y ) ( Y ) and ( Y ) Boofhead Donut Rasputin http://community.webshots.com/user/witchofthewest catsatararatATyahooDOTcomDOTau "Sunny" wrote in message ups.com... : I've got a place name oddity for you from Texas. The name is spelled : "Bexar".... probably named for some long ago settler. It's pronounced : exactly the same as "bare" as in "Oh my, the baby's run outside bare : again." : : I learned the correct pronunciation the hard way. I was a disc jockey : for a tiney FM radio station when I was in college. We played "easy : listening" music. I read the news and weather on the hour and half : hour. Bexar county was one of the ones that always led the list of : neighboring counties with tornado alerts. Of course, I said it wrong : the first time I read it on the air, mangling the name by trying to : get that "x" in there somewhere. Within minutes the phone began to : ring. Oh my, who knew we had that many listeners? And so many from : Bexar County?? : : Sunny : : |
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I do reading tutoring in an elementary school - all my students are ESL
- Oriental. I made up a series fo flash cards to impress on them the necessity of looking at all the letters in the word they're reading, not just the overall impression of the word. The words a though thought thorough through threw throughout Of course, I had to define most of the words for them Cathy in BC CATS wrote: If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself. Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, |
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no, we don't add letters - we spell like in Britain - the Americans took
the letter'U' away Cathy in BC I find the biggest difference between the pronunciations of words come between the USA and Canadian versions because of spelling for the most part. We add letters in some words like: honour, neighbour and colour for example. ~KK in BC~ |
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CATS wrote:
I have heard visitors talk about Bare County but had never given a thought to how it was spelled! I just assumed it was "Bear" County lol How would you pronounce Uluru? http://www.crystalinks.com/ayersrock.html Most Australians would have no problem pronouncing Oo-la-roo . . . . . . but they might not be able to spell it correctly. This often happens with Aboriginal names because they had no written language at the time of European settlement. We Aussies tend to "clip" our pronounciations, as for the town that - correctly - was named Wagga Wagga, but is now known as Wagga. Pronunciation = Wogguh. There are many such. We chuckle to hear our cities' names drawn out in pronounciations by visitors. For us Melbourne is Mel-b'n and Brisbain is Bris-b'n, and Adelaide is Ad'l-aid. And of cource my local town of Horsham is Hor-sh'm One of the local suburbs here is Toronto, always gets shortened to "Trono", and there's Beresfield is shortened to "Bero". -- Melinda http://cust.idl.com.au/athol |
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Looking for dip thongs?
Check Victoria's Secret. NAYY, PAT in VA/USA Sunny wrote: I for one want our diphthongs back! Who took them and where did they go??? BEG I say we begin a "Get Back the Diphthong" movement. It could go far. Sunny |
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