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...When a right-handed bowler instead causes the course of the ball to cross over the center-line of the alley and strike the left-hand side of the headpin and, often, the pin just behind and to the left of it (#2), this is called "Brooklyn" which is, mostly, I think, capitalized...
...but if you came from the other side of the city it was referred to as hitting the "Jersey" side of the pins. And also, definitely, capitalized.
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> wow, did you listen to the audio example?
Pfui, that thing is uhhhg-ly! How do they come up with 'rent'? Just saying 'runt-gun' or omitting the e and saying 'ront-gun' would be better than that. The correct pronunciation would of course be rönt'gun, where the ö is pronounced like the French peu or of course like good ol' Goethe. And yes the consonant t is included too;-) As for how the r is pronounced correctly, well let's just say it's nothing like that recording.
Now I'm starting to realize why English has the somewhat absurd 'x-ray'.
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rent-gen the latter sorta' rhymes with the end of "again" in the example - which takes *forever to load, by the way, when you connect thru phone line!
I wondered because in the military anyone who works around stuff that gives off those rays has a badge that records the "rönt'gun" rays ... a lot of trouble to y'all just so I don't disgrace myself when I pronounce it. Typical of the military - why not just X-ray badge? Keep the civilians confused? It looks like I'll just slur over it as usual.
Thanks for the help.
(Huge West-Of-Ireland sigh)
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When I wore a badge like this (during the nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific in 1962) and later aboard nuclear-powered submarines, we called them "dosimeters."
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A friend of mine used to have this cute T shirt that read, "Harvard, the Duke of the North."
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I wore a badge ... we called them "dosimeters."
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Ah HA the very one : OED says dosimeter is
"a device for measuring doses esp. of ionizing radiation. Also called dosemeter." Way back in the '60s I was told the dosimeter registered doses of those R waves!
I cannot figure out the connection beteen the T shirt saying and the prior comments please enlighten me
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Back in the days when I was a member of the Civil Defence Corps (yes, I *am that old!), we used dosimeters (jocularly referred to as "dozy-meters"). These were small, tubular machines with a calibrated dial with a logorithmic scale at one end which indicated the amount of radiation present.
Incidentally, how do *you pronounce "dosimeter?" We used to put the stress on the second syllable, thus - doh-SIM- mit-uh.
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I cannot figure out the connection beteen the T shirt saying and the prior comments please enlighten me A friend of mine used to have this cute T shirt that read, "Harvard, the Duke of the North." My guess is that it may refer to a point in the opening post  . If Duke of the North were an actual title, then Duke would be capitalized. If you were just referring to a duke of the North, then it wouldn't. But, since on the T-shirt it is capitalized, I imagine that it refers to Duke University, which is located rather southernly.
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These were small, tubular machines with a calibrated dial with a logorithmic scale at one end which indicated the amount of radiation present.
And there was silly me, rather hoping that they were used to determine the presence of STDs in brothels ...
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And you were hoping this because ....?
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