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#28409 05/04/01 07:07 PM
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The lilac's are in full bloom in my backyard, and they gave such a powerful aroma - the kind with a million memories attached.

Does anyone else pronounce it "lie-lock" - vs - "lie-lack"?


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Go Figure - I do!


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"Lie-lick". Zild flattens vowels, I tell you!



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Just wanted to concur with your "lie-lick" as an excuse to congratulate you belatedly on becoming a veteran. And then there were three (again).


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just to throw a monkey in the ointment, i say Lie-Luck.


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Max says Just wanted to concur with your "lie-lick" as an excuse to congratulate you belatedly on becoming a veteran. And then there were three (again).

You know, I hadn't noticed the number of posts I've accumulated for some time ... thank you! How many is it until whatever the next level is?







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Onward and Upward (unlike the Hurricanes!) to Pooh-Bah, at 1600.


#28416 05/04/01 11:32 PM
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Oh, so the Chiefs won, did they? Bloody yappies. Damn. Bring back Umaga, concussed or not, I say!

1600? Ah well, I'll forget about it again, then, like I did last time!



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Ah, lilacs! With just a bit of an "ah" sound in second syllable. Like the French for lake - "lac". My dictionary gives three ways of pronouncing it.When I was in Massachusetts, I had the misfortune of buying some by mail that were infected with a fungus, and wiping out all of the others.


#28418 05/05/01 11:31 AM
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Good old schwa on the second syllable, here.


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