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Milo and POTUS posted:Why is it stupid? It should be 500 feet right I think that's called a cliff or if you're being fancy with the architecture, a parapet.
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Choco1980 posted:I once heard a rumor it stood for North East West South, but it was a pretty suspect rumor so I doubt it. It's actually an anagram for seamstresses in their craft.
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Intoluene posted:Or a doctor's office with no phone reception and a 20 minute wait Every doctor's office I've ever been to has that one single coverless copy of Aku Ankka 7/1993 you have to fight everyone else over because the rest of the magazine bin is full of trade magazines with names like CANCER WEEKLY and advertisement brochures about hearing aids.
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Jerry Cotton posted:Perhaps, if you go by Readers' Digest's definition of joke instead of the normal one that implies there's at least a smidgeon of humour involved. The green stuff in a lobster is just a smidgen of one of its humours.
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Besesoth posted:Those place names are pretty easy to pronounce once you figure out that the pronunciation has come decoupled from the root. "Gloucester" looks like it should be "glou" + "cester", right? That's where the word came from - the fort at Glevum, "Glevum" + "castrum". Now explain how Rutherfordton in North Carolina is pronounced "Ruffton" Or Nagadotches in Louisiana is Nakadish. CannonFodder has a new favorite as of 03:10 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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There’s a town nearby called “Norfolk.” If you don’t pronounce it “Norfork” no one within at least 100 miles will know what you’re talking about. e: We’ve also got “Madrid” with stress exactly where it shouldn’t be and the rarely heard trisyllabic “Moira” with emphasis on the “eye.” burial has a new favorite as of 07:59 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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lemon-lyme disease posted:There’s a town nearby called “Norfolk.” My brother-in-law is from O'Neil and his and my sister's wedding was at his dad's farm there. I learned these pronunciations (well, Norfork, anyway) in addition to having my personal conception of "middle of nowhere" completely redefined. Theris has a new favorite as of 13:20 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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lemon-lyme disease posted:There’s a town nearby called “Norfolk.” Norfolk, Virginia is pronounced as “Norfick” locally
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Henchman of Santa posted:Norfolk, Virginia is pronounced as “Norfick” locally The county of Norfolk in England is pronounced "norfuck". There's a slight difference in the "-uck" that stops it sounding precisely like "gently caress", but I can't think of a way to transcribe it.
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Theris posted:My brother-in-law is from O'Neil and his and my sister's wedding was at his dad's farm there. I learned these pronunciations (well, Norfork, anyway) in addition to having my personal conception of "middle of nowhere" completely redefined. Jesus. All this tells me is that there’s more than one assfuck middle of nowhere with a “norfork.” A truly sobering discovery.
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The_White_Crane posted:The county of Norfolk in England is pronounced "norfuck".
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Hirayuki posted:We've got a major road/state highway named "Gratiot" whose second syllable is pronounced precisely like "poo poo". It's fun when out-of-towners try to maneuver delicately around it until a local tells them it's okay to step right in it. As it were. It's also fun when people find out 8 Mile Road is not like, a neighborhood
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CannonFodder posted:Now explain how Rutherfordton in North Carolina is pronounced "Ruffton" Or Barberville, KY, pronounced by locals as "Barvull". And let's not even get into Versailles, where the "sailles" is like boat sails.
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Hirayuki posted:We've got a major road/state highway named "Gratiot" whose second syllable is pronounced precisely like "poo poo". It's fun when out-of-towners try to maneuver delicately around it until a local tells them it's okay to step right in it. As it were. All the French street names around Detroit are pronounced wrong. Gratiot Dequindre Charlevoix Dix Also "Detroit" itself.
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Zero One posted:All the French street names around Detroit are pronounced wrong.
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CannonFodder posted:Now explain how Rutherfordton in North Carolina is pronounced "Ruffton" It's Natchitoches, but yeah. Nakadish. I am pretty sure it's a Native American word, which may explain some confusion.
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Nacho dishes are great
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The_White_Crane posted:The county of Norfolk in England is pronounced "norfuck". What you're looking for is the schwa, a.k.a. English's secret favorite vowel.
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Oct 23, 2017 22:03
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Hirayuki posted:Beaubien, Livernois... But it's not just French! Case in point: Schoenherr. Also "Heydenreich" which seems easy enough to pronounce properly, but I still hear people say it "HEY den, Rich." Oh, the Midwest's got plenty. See Valparaiso, IN ("val puh RAY zoh") and Cairo, IL ("KAY roh").
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Oct 23, 2017 22:07
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I live in Oklahoma so we have fun things like Okmulgee and Tahlequah. I never thought twice about it until I started hearing people from outside the region try to pronounce them
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purple death ray posted:I live in Oklahoma so we have fun things like Okmulgee and Tahlequah. I never thought twice about it until I started hearing people from outside the region try to pronounce them AWK-mull-gee and tah-LOO-kuh?
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Christ, no Okmulgee is Oak-MULL-gee with a hard g. Tahlequah is TAL-eh-kwah. purple death ray has a new favorite as of 22:38 on Oct 23, 2017 |
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There's probably more that I can't think of at the moment. Then there's Worcester, but it's spelled Wooster 
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Titus Sardonicus posted:In Ohio: I went to the College of Wooster and everyone not from Ohio assumes I went to school in Massachusetts. The main drag is Beall Avenue, pronounced Bell. There's also Newark, pronounced "Nurk"
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Oct 23, 2017 23:41
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My wife’s parents live near Bellefontaine, OH and they pronounce it bell fountain.
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The midwest is insane. I live a little west of detroit and have near me Saline (suh-LEEN) and Milan (MY-luhn).
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My two favorites from my time in Nebraska: Beatrice (Bee-at-riss, with heavy emphasis on the "at") and Papillion (pronounced in phonetic English, nowhere close to French).
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There is a Cairo (Kay-Roh) here in GA as well. My grandmother lives a few miles up the road from me in Houston (House-Ton) county.
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Antivehicular posted:My two favorites from my time in Nebraska: Beatrice (Bee-at-riss, with heavy emphasis on the "at") and Papillion (pronounced in phonetic English, nowhere close to French). Papillion pronounced exactly the same as Pavilion? That's a new one to me.
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Choco1980 posted:The midwest is insane. I live a little west of detroit and have near me Saline (suh-LEEN) and Milan (MY-luhn). And Lake Orion (ORE-ee-un)!
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Henchman of Santa posted:There's also Newark, pronounced "Nurk" Nobody can agree on how to pronounce Newark. In New Jersey it's "NOO erk", in Delaware it's "NEW ark" (and they get mad if you pronounce it "NOO erk").
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Memento posted:Papillion pronounced exactly the same as Pavilion? That's a new one to me. Yes. Their high school mascot is the Monarchs, but it's a weird cartoon king, so I'm guessing someone there is actively spiting the concept of butterflies.
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There's a "CHI-lie" outside Rochester, NY. Because you couldn't pronounce Chili literally any other way.
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To break away from regional name quirks, I just learned that the announcers in the Backyard sports games are supposed to be kids too. I always thought they were random adults providing commentary for this kids league. Maybe it’s Sunny Day’s professional looking outfit that threw me.
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I'd known about ballad/common meter, but I keep discovering new pop-culture uses of it; my kid just came in singing the "Pokémon" theme song to the tune of "Amazing Grace". 
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Besesoth posted:I'd known about ballad/common meter, but I keep discovering new pop-culture uses of it; my kid just came in singing the "Pokémon" theme song to the tune of "Amazing Grace". Like the way you can sing all Emily Dickinson poems to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas?
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I love when people try to pronounce Okeechobee down in South Florida. Anyone not from here trys to say "OH-KEE-CHU-BEE" where it's "OH-KA-CHO-BE"
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Weembles posted:Like the way you can sing all Emily Dickinson poems to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas? What do you mean, "can"? That's not intended?
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swordfish duelist posted:I love when people try to pronounce Okeechobee down in South Florida. Anyone not from here trys to say "OH-KEE-CHU-BEE" where it's "OH-KA-CHO-BE" Then why are there two Es? The second set of two Es plays by the rules. Why can't the first?
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