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Dear jmh: now you are prolonging my torment. How do you pronounce the first name of the Gunpowder plotter? Take pity on me, please!
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How do you pronounce the first name of the Gunpowder plotter?
For that matter, how do you pronounce his *last name?
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>This is probably too obvious to note here, but I'll go ahead and obvliate[sic]:
I'm *sure that was just a typo/oversight on your part, but obviously the word wanted here is obviate, to make obvious.
-ron o.
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I have never heard it pronounced any other way than G(eye) Forks! Heaven knows what his friends called him.
The sanitised version of the poem in the website listed by Bill is:
Remember, remember the fifth of November,
Gunpowder treason and plot.
We see no reason
Why gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!
the version that I grew up with was:
Remember, Remember the fifth of November
The terrible gunpowder plot
A naughty young fella
Got caught in a celler
and ... cor what a hiding he got!
(Trans: a good hiding is a beating)
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tsuwm ::& Faldage: your ignorance is excusable, failing to conceal it is questionable. UK experts, where are you?
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Dear jmh: Thank you, thank you. I was afraid it was one of those Brit things they keep concealed so they can secretly mock US ignorance of their arcana.
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Which leaves US'ns wondering how a Sassenach transplanted to Caer Edinn would pronounce *that.
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>tsuwm ::: your ignorance is excusable, failing to conceal it is questionable.
wot da #$&%... I was jest responding to someone else's digression. keep your singlemindedness to yerself, bud!
-joe bfstplk
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obvliate
the word wanted here is obviate
Or perhaps the word in the wind is a clever anagram masquerading as a typo.
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And sometimes one wonders both in flatline and in threadnodist modes to which post a response is being made. Excusably ignorant
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