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#8719 01/15/01 01:11 AM
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others over that side of the pond - pronounce the second syllable of my name as, "man" - whereas I always say, "mahn" in that context.

D'you mean to say that you pronounce commando as
"common-dough" (accent on the mon, presumably)?
Infantry, then?
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Hey! Max, I just looked up avatar--I am NOT Anu's avatar!!
On this board or anywhere.

But if I were Hindi, he might be mine:
"In the Hindu religion, an avatar is an incarnation of a deity; hence, an embodiment or manifestation of an idea or greater reality."

Now: you thought I couldn't rhyme Quordlepleen?? Hah! Belly up to the bar, boy, and lemme show you somethin'.

Talk of avatars and gods
Dragons, posters, and AWAD's;
Language lives forever; won't it?
But dirt gets in, depend upon it.
How the mighty Quordlepleen
Helps to keep th'immortal clean.




#8720 01/15/01 03:32 AM
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In reply to:

D'you mean to say that you pronounce commando as
"common-dough" (accent on the mon, presumably)?
Infantry, then?


Sorry, Jackie it's probably something too alien for US ears. It's "ma" as in Mars "coMAHNdo". Oh, and, BTW, I'd make a damn fine one - my singing is outlawed under the UN Charter on human rights - let me loose on your enemies, with a good dose of "O sole mio", or "Mull of Kintyre" and there won't a living soul within 100 miles!


#8721 01/15/01 01:04 PM
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and I was wrong about the commonality of the pronounciation of "Rhubarb", too! I have just shown the word to a colleague of mine who hails from Michigan and he pronounced it "Roo-bAIRb"


#8722 01/16/01 02:18 PM
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"Roo-bAIRb?" This born-and-raised Michiganian has never heard rhubarb so pronounced. Around here, I've only heard "roo-barb." Makes a great cobbler either way, though.


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