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#102140 05/01/03 02:48 PM
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As does everyone

I think the confusion comes from the misleading spelling. If it were spelled termater, like it's pronounced, we wouldn't have the confusion.


#102141 05/01/03 02:53 PM
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No, it should be spelled duhmater if ya wanna be phonetic.


#102142 05/01/03 03:40 PM
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Or either 'duhmader.'


#102143 05/01/03 03:48 PM
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I'm not sure I can 'listen' to this.


#102144 05/01/03 04:08 PM
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What's duh madder, dxb?


#102145 05/01/03 04:26 PM
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#102146 05/02/03 12:37 AM
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???????
is there a live ta . . .
Ooops, just listened to what I was about to ask and decided not to go there.


#102147 05/02/03 06:40 AM
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What's duh madder, dxb?

Id souds like yer god a cohd id der head. I hobe ids nod catchig. ~ Sly Stallone




#102148 05/02/03 02:59 PM
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this thread makes me sad-- i think of all the fun we had when ever any one opened their mouth at the first wordapalozza..

one Kiwi (no names mentioned!) told a joke about a man going to a pit shop to buy a present for his wife.. (and i thought--a pit shop? i know some stores in the scranton area of Pennsylvania sell anthracite coal carved into knick knacks-- but a whole store for pits- was there an other meaning to pits besides the mining one i was thinking off?)
and seconds later, i got my answer... at the pit shop the man was buying birds, or gerbils.. Oh, it was a PET shop..and being me, i ruined the flow of the joke by breaking in and saying..Whoa, wait a minute.. pit and pet have different vowels, and different sounds..

There were constant occurance of 'double takes'--and "what was that?" as we listened to each other.. and great show was done, with a group from the UK reading a skit.. to us, from US, is was the same word over and over again..but spoke, one single place name, had 3 different "sounds"!


#102149 05/03/03 03:34 AM
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Now come on, Helen, just because 250 million of you mispronounce a word which 3.9 million of us use perfectly happily among ourselves without any misunderstanding doesn't mean that you're right, you know.


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