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#26656 04/14/01 07:18 PM
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Oh ma' Gawd ... can I be one up on Jackie fanning self madly, so won't faint dead away
I've heard Fin-ANCE with a longish A.
Too too terribly U.
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It is my ill-remembered feeling that among US'ns, the subMARiners refer to themselves with the emPHAsis on the second sylLABle but other swabs call them SUBmaREEners. I've also heard both HARassment and haRASSment among US'ns. The only difference in privacy that I know of is in the length of the i, i.e., PRIVVacy vs. PRYvacy.


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The word bandied about at the local Navy Base among members of the "Silent Service" is subMARiner which I used when amongst them, however for the civilian population it's subMARINers
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if i were to hear subMARiner, i'd think of the watch. submaRINers is what i'd call the personnel.

is the watch's name pronounced differently in other regions?


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The word bandied about at the local Navy Base among members of the "Silent Service" is subMARiner which I used when amongst them, however for the civilian population it's subMARINers

It looks like I have been guilty of unwarranted extrapolation. I watched a documentary in which a retired USN admiral, formerly head of the USN's submarine fleet, consistently said submarine-r. Since he had formerly been one, I leaped to the contusion that all USN submariners pronounced it the way their former boss did. Whoops!


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It looks like I have been guilty of unwarranted extrapolation.

Extrapolate not, lest ye be extrapolated.


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Extrapolate not, lest ye be extrapolated.
Now, AnnaS., don't forget the admonition: "Forgive them their extrapolations, for they know not what they do".


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While we're mangling the Bible, let me note that on a CD I have, of some English cathedral choir singing the Psalms to Anglican chants, one of them goes, "O praise God in the senkt-chwerie" (accent on the 1st syllable).


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I watched a documentary in which a retired USN admiral, ...consistently said submarine-r. Since he had formerly been one, I leaped to the contusion that all USN submariners pronounced it the way their former boss did

He was talking for the benefit of civilians ... perhaps that explains it ... but must say I have heard both ... the subMARiner seems to be of more recent vintage.
Changing times?
Has your contusion interesting colors?
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"Has your contusion interesting colors?"
Isn't he funny? Bet he did that on porpoise!


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