Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?

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#77304 - 07/30/02 08:34 PM Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?
sjm old hand Registered: 07/19/02 Posts: 742 Loc: Akina	Recently I was watching a cooking show featuring an Australian presenter. Since my father taught me that the "differently abled" are children of Allah, I won't mock her for suffering that cruel affliction. However, she did insist on pronouncing the name of Bush Sr.'s favourite vegetable "brocco-lie". My question is, was this just an individual quirk, or another example of the process by which English has devolved into Strine?
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#77305 - 07/30/02 08:59 PM Re: Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	maybe she just meant the plural. _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#77306 - 07/30/02 09:07 PM Re: Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?
hev addict Registered: 01/28/02 Posts: 477 Loc: Sydney, Australia	Brocco-lie Glad to see that the "differently abled" are not to be mocked, sjm! I'm beginning to appreciate this Allah of yours. I'm only speaking for myself, not the rest of the "differently abled" population, but I say Brocco-lie. So, what's the crime?
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#77307 - 07/31/02 12:07 AM Re: Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?
doc_comfort addict Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 618 Loc: Australia	~lee here, just to be different.
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#77308 - 07/31/02 01:35 AM Re: Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?
hev addict Registered: 01/28/02 Posts: 477 Loc: Sydney, Australia	just to be different. Yeahbutt®, you're from South 'Differently Abled'. SDAs do everything a little different. Dance, plants, prance... hey, no one said we couldn't mock our own!
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#77309 - 07/31/02 07:00 AM Re: Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?
RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/23/00 Posts: 2204	Brits used to say "brocco-lee". Now they call it "calabrese"
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#77310 - 07/31/02 08:04 AM Re: Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	"Brocco-lie"?? Ok, I'll be kind: outrage; horrors; anathema.
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#77311 - 07/31/02 08:44 AM Re: Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?
Chemeng1992 member Registered: 08/03/01 Posts: 131 Loc: Alabama	Maybe I'm just rough around the edges, but as I spoke the word out loud it came out 'broc-lee'. That's right, two syllables.
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#77312 - 07/31/02 08:47 AM Re: Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?
boronia enthusiast Registered: 02/18/02 Posts: 322 Loc: Toronto, Canada	And I say it brockle-ee, which is not quite the same as brocco-lee.
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#77313 - 07/31/02 09:35 AM Re: Brocco-lie or brocco-lee?
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	I'm with boronia: brockle-ee _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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