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� Then there's the ever popular question, is it "ma NOOR" or "meh NERR." � � which of course brings to mind the old Truman gag � Margaret � "Mama, I wish you'd get Papa to call it fertilizer, not manure!" Bess � "Honey, it took me twenty years to get him to call it manure."
"Good enough" isn't.
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The redneck in me loves to ask the purty little gal behind the counter at the sandwich shop to put some of that chipootle mustard on my sub. she turns beet red everytime.
Asking for a order of fajeetas gets you about the same reaction.
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When I moved to Prescott, Arizona, in the 1970s, the locals pronounced it PRESS-c't.
When I moved away in 1990, the horde of new-comers had changed that to PRESS-COT. (Reminds me of the many times that I've heard handloaders say "If they didn't mean for the case to be full of powder, they wouldn't've made it that big.")
Stodgy old originalist that I am, I still say "PRESS-c't."
(And I agree about the case full of powder � but ask which powder?)
"Good enough" isn't.
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KOWA.........
I called it "cow-uh" for years. As you guys probably know, it's "K-oh-uh".
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I am still waiting for the proper way to say "schnabel". Any help?
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Uh, not exactly. SHNA-bel.
Except maybe in Minnesota. No offense intended!
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Spicer? Little Crow Gun Works?
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Here's another: "sa-bot" instead of the correct "say-Bo" for sabot; I don't believe I've ever heard it pronounced correctly in my neck of the woods. But then I hear a little less than I used to
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A young Junior Officer who is related to the Hoppes family (I can't remember how but he had the same name) came through the Navy flight program several years so naturally I had to ask him how the name was pronounced and he confirmed what a few others have said. It's Hoppys like sloppy.
Here's another one--Garand
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Simple -- it's pronounced the same as it's spelled -- gehr-AND'
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Or the worst one is Brett the quarterback's name -- FAVRE. Should have an accent ague over the e, making it fa-Vray, but certainly NOT farve.
"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." (Prov 4:23) Brother Keith
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Yes, Little Crow Gunworks in Spicer
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Ya sure ya betcha we know hows to pronounce schnable, just not how to spell out the pronounciation. Dale
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Dale,
Thanks for the explanation!
A friend from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan once told me that the stuff you spray on your body early in spring to keep the skeeters away is pronounced "insect repellement" by Youpers. But they compensate for the extra syllable on M'orial Day.
Here in Montana we say Ubet instead of Youbetcha....
“Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans.” John Steinbeck
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When we were in high school, a friend's parents were having a "discussion" over how to pronounce Manilla, Iowa and Manila in the Philippines. The mother maintained that they were pronounced the same, while the father strongly held that they were pronounced differently. After considerable back-and-forth, he fervently explained that the one was pronounced "Mah-nill-ah" (to rhyme with vanilla) and the other was pronounced "Mah-nill-ah" (also to rhyme with vanilla), at which point he stormed out, leaving us all to wonder just exactly what the uproar had been about.
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Is it eye-O-way or eye-o-wa
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Nobody seems to know for sure. Most of the time I hear "eye-oh-wah", but more and more often it seems to just be "eye-wah". It might be of some interest to know that the word Iowa has a number of different meanings in the native tongue from which it was borrowed. The one that the tourism bureau likes to promote is "beautiful land". The one that I find most interesting is "place where the skunk got sick". Like all of the other states, it has its good points and its bad. What I find somewhat distressing is the tendency on the part of many of the residents to have a completely misguided notion of what criteria to use in defining our own state. Best, John
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IIRC, Garand = GAIR-'nd
Two that seem to be lost forever are "Florida" (FLOR-ee-da) and "authority" (aw-THAWR-ee-tee). More and more, I hear instead "FLAW-ee-dah" and ""aw-THAW-ee-tee" everywhere.
Even we old south-Alabama hicks grew-up sounding our Rs in those two.
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