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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Correct, AnnaStrophic! .... #16260 01/20/2001 4:24 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 35 Chickie newbie Chickie newbie Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 35 It's "MY" mispronunciation of the town name. One hesitates to ask directions because you know the correction is coming! Got another one for y'all! QUIZ: WHERE WOULD YOU BE FROM IF YOU PRONOUNCED "beautiful" as "beau-tee-ful"? "Adversity is the whetstone of creativity" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Correct, AnnaStrophic! .... #16261 01/20/2001 5:05 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Do you mean "byou - ti - full" or "boo - ti - full"? The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter [wink] #16262 01/20/2001 7:14 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 35 Chickie newbie Chickie newbie Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 35 "Bee-u(long u) tee-full" . Know where they say it like this? "Adversity is the whetstone of creativity" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: [wink] #16263 01/20/2001 8:17 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Yep, everywhere except the North American continent ... The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: [wink] #16264 01/20/2001 9:06 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 jmh Pooh-Bah jmh Pooh-Bah Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 1,981 Except the East of London and sunny Essex where it is bootiful! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Nope! #16265 01/20/2001 9:45 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 35 Chickie newbie Chickie newbie Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 35 Not even warm. "Adversity is the whetstone of creativity" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: bee-u-ti-ful #16266 01/21/2001 6:07 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 87 City of Brotherly Love, no not... nikeblack journeyman nikeblack journeyman Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 87 City of Brotherly Love, no not... Down Pash-iunk in Fluffya. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Correct, AnnaStrophic! .... #16267 01/22/2001 1:02 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Well, I've waited a couple of days to enter this thread, so taken aback was I to see my name in cyber-lights! Chickie, I'm real good at grammar. I don't get a lot of jokes, though ['stern-look-at-CapK' emoticon] I'm thinking about "beau-tee-ful" but I've heard a lot of folk from different places pronounce it this way, so I dunno where it is a linguistic marker. Please tell me! One of my thangs is US regional dialects.... "Publicity is the cornerstone of humility" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: [wink] #16268 01/23/2001 10:47 AM Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah RhubarbCommando Pooh-Bah Joined: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,204 Except the East of London and sunny Essex where it is bootiful Add to that, most of the South-western counties of UK - where the cider comes from. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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