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OT Humour - Written & Spoken English
http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/k/k0048700.html
whats to snicker about? i say it ca(as in cat)key too. and this is quilt related... http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/b/b0077500.html i say it as they do here tho never knew why, just sounded european to me so i added the soft j sound. oh you can listen to words here as well as the country origin, etc. jeanne -- Vote B'fly for President '08 san-fran at ihug dot co dot nz nzlstar on yahoo msg'r nzlstar on webshots "CATS" wrote... I have heard Aussies say either car-key or ca-key (like cat without the "t") So which one are you snickering at ladies 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 |
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Howdy!
Sam Houston: from Virginia to Tennessee. But he got to Texas as soon as he could. g R/Sandy -- http://www.texasbob.com/travel/tbt_quilts_houston.html On 5/8/07 12:49 PM, in article CK20i.1237$LJ3.892@trnddc02, "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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On 8 May, 18:39, "CATS" wrote:
I have heard Aussies say either car-key or ca-key (like cat without the "t") So which one are you snickering at ladies * * *lol Hi Cheryl -- According to my DSIL, it's car-key rusty |
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Of course it is...LOL ca-key means awful
Dee in Oz On May 9, 2:40 pm, rusty wrote: On 8 May, 18:39, "CATS" wrote: I have heard Aussies say either car-key or ca-key (like cat without the "t") So which one are you snickering at ladies ? ? ?lol Hi Cheryl -- According to my DSIL, it's car-key rusty |
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Yes - I agree. I grew up with a Dad who always described
hid Army uniforms as car-key green. And ca-ckie is what we called yuckie things when we were kids rofl -- 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 "Dee in Oz" wrote in message oups.com... : Of course it is...LOL ca-key means awful : : Dee in Oz : : On May 9, 2:40 pm, rusty wrote: : On 8 May, 18:39, "CATS" wrote: : : I have heard Aussies say either car-key or ca-key (like cat : without the "t") : : So which one are you snickering at ladies ? ? ?lol : : Hi Cheryl -- According to my DSIL, it's car-key : rusty : : |
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On Mon, 7 May 2007 11:14:09 +1000, "CATS" wrote:
*snip* The one English name that always had me bemused was the terribly upper crust name of "St John". How that ever became "Sinjun" in an environment that imposes such a stylised and demanding pronunciation system had me beat until I was told it was derived from the Norman/French pronunciation - hence the "slurring" of the Saint. But I have never heard it in relation to place names like "St John's Wood". I remember reading that Australia represented a language anomaly in that it represented a vast area with only minimal language variation. You can travel thousands of miles here and not hear a change of accent. *snip* That is how Sinclair came about - from St. Clair. So that's two examples. As for travelling hundreds of miles and not hearing an accent change, Russia is similar. There are very few true accent differences. I often wondered if 70 years of Communist education was the reason - on any given day, every school in that vast continent-stretching country was on the same page of the same book. That sort of thing. But then I read that it was true, that there were very few accent differences before the beginning of Communism as well. Very interesting. -- Jo in Scotland |
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On Tue, 08 May 2007 17:49:22 GMT, klh in VA
wrote: Houston .... in georgia (state of, usa) pronounced houseton in texas, (no comment on) pronounced hueston klh in va The original one, in Scotland, is pronounced hoo-stun. Whenever Houston TX comes up in the news here, the Scots newsreaders pronounce that one Hoo-stun as well. Since they do have lists encouraging correct regional pronunciation at the BBC, I always wonder if they're just having a laugh.... -- Jo in Scotland |
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OT Humour - Written & Spoken English
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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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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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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