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Every day I click http://www.thebreastcancersite.com to fund mamograms for poor women - it's free to me - and there are the inevitable ads. Today I noticed an ad for a bracelet with Dichroic stones. Looked it up and it is a substance that absorbs light according to the direction from which light comes. Or. Having a different color depending on which direction it is observed from. Just adding to your fund of word lore.
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thanks for the reminder of that site(and the others that link to it), wow. I used to be good about clicking everyday... gotta get back into the habit.
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wow - also check out "pleochroic" - very important part of mineral microscopy.
[I just love saying "microscopy" - always feel I've achieved something when I get it out without messing it up!!]
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Yep, I've always had problems with that word. How d'y'all pronounce it?
With the first 'o' an 'ö' (as in bone) or as an 'o' (as in moss)? An where do you accent the word?
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clicking everyday... gotta get back into the habit.
I put it in Favorites, right over the Wordsmith link.
It is free to click and a good thing to do. They nearly cancelled the site because clicking fell off - so it's a good thing to click daily. Are there any amongst us who have not been touched by this ? A friend, a family member?
Anyway that's my plug for this month!
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pleochroic
Neato Stales, thanks!
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with the emphasis on cross.
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my CROSS' cuh pee
I've always done it like the o in "hot" rather than in "cross" ("crawce"), which I pronounce more like the sound in "short" or "horse." Must be my Bronx upbringing creeping out again.
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wofa -
MUST be a Bronx thang.
The 'o' sound in "hot" and "cross" is the same in Australian English - and in English English I believe.
As I am fond of saying, Strine is a dialect of short cuts. Don't make a vowel any longer than necessary is the fundamental tenet around here. Other rules are:
- Don't waste time or brainpower acknowledging the sound changes implied by trailing vowels - use them only when absolutely necessary. Hence "here" is oft-pronounced (in Sydney especially) "he" and (in extreme cases) "change" becomes "chain".
- When you barely open your mouth and don't move your lips to talk it's too difficult to draw breath - so don't waste what you've got. Hence it is not usual practice to insert momentary pauses between words. Far better to run them all together. (A well known advertising campaign years ago tapped into this by urging Aussies to "avagoodweegend" by remembering to apply a certain brand of insect repellant. To this day, many of us associate that "one word" with the product.)
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In reply to:
The 'o' sound in "hot" and "cross" is the same in Australian English - and in English English I believe.
Zild does the same, he mentioned casually, nobly resisting the urge to comment on the incongruity of see ing "Australian" and English" together.
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you barely open your mouth and don't move your lips to talk A habit developed to stop the mouth drying out in the intense dry heat of the outback I guess  . Stilgar would've spoken that way - but rarely.
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When you barely open your mouth and don't move your lips to talk it's too difficult to draw breath - so don't waste what you've got.
Makes it difficult for the hard-of-hearing and deaf to read your lips, too! As do drooping moustaches which grow down over the top lip. Just sayin'. Guess I'll have to pass the Outback trip. Ah. well. As if!
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Many thanks for the tips, my friends, on microscopic pronunciation (as practiced in OZ!)
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