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former NYTimes editor Howard Raines, describing John Kerry: "It's as if Lurch had gone to Choate."
this has sent folks scurrying to their dictionaries (and some to OneLook®) to look up 'choate'. but this is somewhat futile, as Raines refers to the Conneticut prep school.
in this case googling the phrase "gone to Choate" is the way to go.
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Good thing they didn't google Conneticut.
Edit: I must admit to being a little surprised at the number of hits on conneticut. 96.6T
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Curious that the abbreviation for CT is the very spelling problem in a nutshell, don't you agree? But, that aside, thanks, tsuwm, for the Kerry cut. Here's a link to the whole enchilda, but you'll have to scroll down to June 3rd: http://www.bostonphoenix.com/medialog/index.aspI like Kerry's delivery, by the way. Limbaugh has been lambasting Kerry's style for weeks now, mocking it regularly, but I enjoy Kerry's style and find it has a lot more long-phrased mellifluousness than the other candidate's short little rubberbandits of minute grouplets of words shot out almost monotonically above his big shiny boots.
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long-phrased mellifluousness than the other candidate's short little rubberbandits of minute grouplets of words shot out almost monotonically above his big shiny boots.
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Random side thought. Wherever I put the accent in that word it comes out sounding the same.
Does this work for USn's?
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Wherever I put the accent in that word
If you mean the quality of the vowels reamins the same, taking the accent off the LIF turns the I to a schwa, otherwise, the vowels remain pretty much the same whether they're accented or not. If that's not what you mean I, for one, don't have the foggiest idea what you *do mean, so splain me.
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yeah, when I put the accent in, the lif sounds louder.
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I don't know the proper word for what I mean. Damn.
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