But why would anybody spell dilemma with double n? I don't know any English words in which mn in pronounced m. Anybody can refresh my memory?

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How about condemn?

Damn! She's right.

-and what about MN, pronounced MIN-uh-SO-tah?

I don't understand what is "ironic" about asking about an apparent sponsor. I was unfamiliar with this brand until I viewed it at this site. Since it is the intention of an ad to "sell their product". I wanted practical advise from anyone actually experienced with R/S. Thank you...

Perry's citation of the OED derivation is illuminating. But shop has been used in our time traditonally to mean the act of seeking rather than selling goods. The same OED reference notes " The meaning to visit shops is first attested 1764. Shop around is from 1922." so we turned the meanin...

I believe those are reserved for the patients who can transcend dental medication... -gailr Beautiful, Gailr! Very incisive. I always thought 'what the dentist does best' is billing? (Sorry Canadian listers -an inside USian joke) Yes indeed. Gail's wisdom really impacted. :lol: Yike! We'd better pu...

And if we in Sweden (or Germany etc.) would like to break records in this aspect, English would soon be beaten by our way to create words. For the English "the fused chilled water circulating pump switch" I could come up with several different parsings to yield for Swedish techie guys per...

And non have as yet outdone Spiro Agnew, with his "nattering nabobs..." quote; even if he didn't author it. Weren't that writ by a young Pat Buchanan? We still have him to kick around. I dunno, Dan Quayle is still the muttering maven of malapropism in my book. Recently I went into a resta...

Words that rhyme with Perry: (153 results) 2 syllables: airey, airy, arie, ary, barey, barre, barrie, barry, berrey, <snip> Perry, you may be in my town but I have to remember never to play Scrabble witchyew...! I learnt it as puh-KAHN, with a vague notion that it may have been a variant from the n...

I am from southern Missouri and we do not call it access road/service road. We call it an outer road. There's another thread on this under the Reb/Yank subheading "missing links and suggested additions". Point was made that for where many of us grew up there was no such thing, as roads we...

I just cast a NOTA vote since, at least in my schooling I remember hearing a double accent on 1 and 4 rather than 1 and 3, and the 4 was pronounced "lay" with a hard ch (ARK-ih-puh-LAÝ-go).

I have heard the 1/3 accent often, and I usually think of it as a Britishism.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. -- Charles Bukowski And who was it that said: "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's the other way ...

So much for edittors.

Hee hee! Nicely done.

That reminds me,the town that I was born in is called Lompoc. I lived there 20 years. It is a Chumash Indian word meaning something about where the river runs (the Santa Yenez river). When people see the name Lompoc(pronounced Lom-poke) they pronounce it Lom-pock. Well, that's fine if you don't kno...

Ironic that some of the posts in this thread are partially obscured by an ad -for the Rosetta Stone!

I believe those are reserved for the patients who can transcend dental medication...

-gailr

Beautiful, Gailr! Very incisive.

I always thought 'what the dentist does best' is billing?
(Sorry Canadian listers -an inside USian joke)

Now this is bizarre- I recently heard the main news announcer on Radio Havana Cuba pronounce it as "nukyular" -several times in a row! You'd think a dedicated critic... As to Mark's note I can say only that it must be embarrassing to have elected an unrepentant buffoon to your most powerfu...