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#92574 01/20/03 06:09 PM
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Good ol' Kickeroh. I sure won't forget that now that I've learned it.

But everybody around here sure does pronounc good ol' Kickeroh's name: "Sisseroh."


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everybody around here sure does pronounce good ol' Kickeroh's name: "Sisseroh."

An I'll betcha they ain' a classical Roman in the bunch.


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An I'll betcha they ain' a classical Roman in the bunch.

There ain' ennathin' or ennaone that's classical where I live. Closest thin' to even historical--disregarding classical altogether-- is the marker for where the Battle of Five Forks was fought--and you kin stand there and count the five forks to make sure the historians got the count right.

We speak Southern Virginian here. Wanna guess how lots of us pronounce "vegetables"?


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Vegehbls?

FWIW What Dr. Bill said about the "proper" way to pronounce Cicero only holds for if you're speaking Classical Latin. Mebbe you'll catch a high school student pernouncin it thataway.


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Here goes vegetables in Southern Virginian:

VEG''-TUB'-bles

There's a heavy stress on the first syllable, and nearly equivalent heaviness on the second. The second and third syllables of vegetables. pronounced in the Rocky Run dialect of Southern Virginian, rhyme with
bubbles.. No joke. Everytime I hear my mom tell me to go get the vegtubbles and put them on the table, it cracks me up.


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VEG''-TUB'-bles

Sounds about the way we pronounced it in Chicago. And Boston. And Flagstaff. And Santa Ana. And Ithaca. And about every place I lived. How do you think it should be pronounced, Ve jeh tay bles?


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It cracks me up to hear people say veg-uh-TAH-bles.



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How Cicero got the name, from Brewer:
Cicero So called from the Latin, cicer (a wart or vetch). Plutarch says “a flat excrescence on the
tip of his nose gave him this name.”

chickpea
n.
1 a bushy annual plant (Cicer arietinum) of the pea family, with short, hairy pods containing usually two seeds; garbanzo
2 the edible seed






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It cracks me up to hear people say veg-uh-TAH-bles.

"...It's a scheme of devices to get at low prices
All good from cough-mixtures to cables
{Which tickled the sailors) by treating retailers
As though they were all ve-ge-ta'-bles..."

W S Gilbert, the "Nightmare Song," in Iolanthe

(Tay'-bles, tah'-bles, let's call the whole thing off!)


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