Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 4:50 pm
Lesh for leash? Geesh. Now as for Eye-talyan, it took me awhile to learn the soft "i" on that one, but I'm still trying to run from "I-rack" and "I-ran".
Ranger
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"I-rack" and "I-ran".
This joke made me smile. I also wondered if Denis privately reflected on how very small his US audience might be if his suggestion were ever implemented.I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the angered off people live in one place and get it over with. -- Denis Leary
So, for the record people, even though it spoils Mr. Seinfeld's joke, it's CLIT-er-is and, to return to my main (pre-digressive) point, PLETH-er-uh), but so anyhow, yeah, I hear it so often that I don't feel like a Mr. S. Pants anymore when I say it. Maybe I'm just hanging out with people with better vocabularies or something, but I swear I'm hearing it everywhere.)
Just remember that during the war between those two countries, Iran was caught between Iraq and a hard place.Lesh for leash? Geesh. Now as for Eye-talyan, it took me awhile to learn the soft "i" on that one, but I'm still trying to run from "I-rack" and "I-ran".
Ranger
Well, I hope that's a good thing. However, I think what you envisioned in your mind isn't what I was talking about at all.Smile. Tim, you sayas if you'd be trespassing some sort of internal regional boundary. I find that charming.I could never bring myself to pronounce this word "SOW-na" as in the second audio sample on the m-w.com link.
Who said I was going by the first pronunciation? I don't use that one either. It sounds closer to sonnet than sauna... as pronounced in these parts.The first pronunciation, however, in the ears of those Up North would easily peg you as hailing from somewhere south of Duluth/Superior.
Just for the record, Ranger, I too put all 3 syllables in sauna, not being a Finn but having studied Finnish, and following the rule that a foreign word carries its native pronunciation. And your original query did address "you true Finns" so that should kibósh condescension claims.How many of you true Finns out there wince when you hear people mispronounce "sauna"?
Well, all of us have been mispronouncing English words all along then.Just for the record, Ranger, I too put all 3 syllables in sauna, not being a Finn but having studied Finnish, and following the rule that a foreign word carries its native pronunciation.
--true, which recalls Frank's point about words like message. Foreign is the operative word, and how to define that... aye, there's the rub. I believe the official ruling is that the imported word has to reside in its new linguistic lair for 563 years, seven months and 15 seconds before it gets to forget its chequered past.Well, all of us have been mispronouncing English words all along then.Just for the record, Ranger, I too put all 3 syllables in sauna, not being a Finn but having studied Finnish, and following the rule that a foreign word carries its native pronunciation.
Brazilian dude
I like that one, although spelling it Worthlas would be an even better audio-visual pun. I'll have to remember that one the next time I have to take a Texan down a notch or two.. . .
As for Iraq + Iran = Irate, it reminds me of the plan to combine Dallas and Fort Worth into a single urban entity; what would they call it? "Worthless!" [duck]