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Isn't he funny? Bet he did that on porpoise!
he's hilarious, indeed... and wasn't it max who said something about casting nasturtiums not too long ago? [too-lazy-to-search-e]
i found the contusion malaprop particularly funny, in light of the fact that there's no surer way to get bruised than to jump to conclusions (hi m!)
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there's no surer way to get bruised than to jump to conclusions Now there's a nice thread ! Or should I look before I leap to confusions   wow
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[ O praise God in the senkt-chwerie" (accent on the 1st syllable).But of course. How else would one pronounce it? sankt-U-ARY? Come to think of it, I think I have heard that quaint version, from USns of my acquaintance.
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that quaint version, from USns of my acquaintance.Watch it, Bub, or I might ac your quaint ance!  Or, ax your quaint aunts...nah. Maybe your quaint ants... I'm tired and I wanna go to bed. "Show me the way to go home..."
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controversy, laboratory, harassmentWhile each of these has diverse emphasis, in none does this divergence yield a different sense (with the exception of harassment, in which stressing the first syllable may convey a sense of arrogance). "Submariner" is different. Although either pronunciation may apply to the same thing, the description of that thing is not the same. SubmarEENer is the crew member of a submarine. SubMAriner is more poetic (and I prefer it) but a little non-sensical, meaning a mariner who is under the sea, by inference; or for lurid literals, ( ) one who is under a mariner. Which leads to an obvious, but unintended, digression to another topic concerning the usefulness of that loveliest turn of phrase, "Hello, sailor!" ...and from there, to the question: 'though beauty may be useful, can a useful thing be beautiful? a question sure to go unanswered--unless so identified; and with those last three words, the charm of the first six undone...on and on, 'til the devil takes the soul gone foul with the boredom sprung of endless loops of logic called "philosophy" in common parlance.
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Oh, oh, I got one. In fact the king of 'em all: NUCLEAR! You US'ns actually use a completely different word. And, come to think of it, you do it with ALUMINIUM as well.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Oh, oh, I got one. In fact the king of 'em all: NUCLEAR! You US'ns actually use a completely different word. And, come to think of it, you do it with ALUMINIUM as well.If you mean "nucular," well, Jimmy Carter says that, but he says "goobers," too. And we do it with titanium. 
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Get with the programme, Gooseberry. It's the wave of the future. Not to mention metathesis.
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If you mean "nucular," well, Jimmy Carter says that, but he says "goobers," too.An adroit comment, IP! After all, a goober is a nucleus, etymologicaly speaking. What do you call a hazelnut? Around here they're called filberts, but yankee yuppies insist on hazelnuts. That seems to be a drift from specific to general terms, similar to what hapened when quartz-iodine (that's ee-o-deen, not eye-oh-dyne, right? ) headlights became quartz-halogen headlights. (Salt-producing lights?) , you do it with ALUMINIUM as wellMy former father-in-law couldn't make his mouth move right for either pronunciation, and it came out "aloonyum!" I should have taken a clue from that, as it probably told me something about the family into which I was marrying. 
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Aluminium but at least US spell it Aluminum as they say it (I think). There was a fuss in the media here end of last year about standardising spellings of scientific words "to avoid confusion", with school kids having to use the standard spellings from now on, and having to change "sulphate" to "sulfate" and "foetus" to "fetus". The only saving grace is that the official term for "Aluminum" is "Aluminium".(altered cos the capital I looked like an L) ! The education authorities eventually backed off a little. Carribean = Ca-rib-BEE-an (slight emphasis on 3rd syllable) in UK. US = Cu-RIB-ian as I remember. (I'm exagerating slightly with my lack of knowledge on the correct markup for pronounciation) Rod
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