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Posted By: Chickie Correct, AnnaStrophic! .... - 01/20/01 04:24 PM
It's "MY" mispronunciation of the town name. One hesitates to ask directions because you know the correction is coming!

Got another one for y'all! QUIZ: WHERE WOULD YOU BE FROM IF YOU PRONOUNCED "beautiful" as
"beau-tee-ful"?



"Adversity is the whetstone of creativity"
Posted By: Capital Kiwi Re: Correct, AnnaStrophic! .... - 01/20/01 05:05 PM
Do you mean "byou - ti - full" or "boo - ti - full"?

Posted By: Chickie [wink] - 01/20/01 07:14 PM
"Bee-u(long u) tee-full" .

Know where they say it like this?

"Adversity is the whetstone of creativity"
Posted By: Capital Kiwi Re: [wink] - 01/20/01 08:17 PM
Yep, everywhere except the North American continent ...

Posted By: jmh Re: [wink] - 01/20/01 09:06 PM
Except the East of London and sunny Essex where it is bootiful!

Posted By: Chickie Nope! - 01/20/01 09:45 PM
Not even warm.

"Adversity is the whetstone of creativity"
Posted By: nikeblack Re: bee-u-ti-ful - 01/21/01 06:07 PM
Down Pash-iunk in Fluffya.

Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: Correct, AnnaStrophic! .... - 01/22/01 01:02 AM
Well, I've waited a couple of days to enter this thread, so taken aback was I to see my name in cyber-lights! Chickie, I'm real good at grammar. I don't get a lot of jokes, though ['stern-look-at-CapK' emoticon]

I'm thinking about "beau-tee-ful" but I've heard a lot of folk from different places pronounce it this way, so I dunno where it is a linguistic marker. Please tell me! One of my thangs is US regional dialects....

"Publicity is the cornerstone of humility"

Posted By: RhubarbCommando Re: [wink] - 01/23/01 10:47 AM
Except the East of London and sunny Essex where it is bootiful

Add to that, most of the South-western counties of UK - where the cider comes from.

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