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There was once a "poetic" young man
Whose "poetry" never would scan.
He said "Yes, I know that the thing
Just doesn't have any zing,
But I always feel irresistibly compelled to get as many words into the last line as I possibly can."

There was a little town near where I was born in western PA that as a kid I always heard pronounced "lay jose" long a as in hay, bay, ray etc., and long o as in joe, foe, moe, etc., and ending with an esssssss.

The place was spelled "La Jose"

The projectile inside a sabot round is several pounds of hyper- velocity BAD NEWS!!! In one side and out the other and nothing in between survives.

"Maggie"

by Wally McRae

I taught my good dog, Maggie
To lay down when I commanded.
I also taught her "Set"
Whenever I demanded.
I'll teach her next to speak, I said
She struggled to comply.
And when she learned to speak, she said
"You twit. It's 'sit' and 'lie".

That's easy: "boolit".

Instant quiz: what issue of what mag did one of Mule Deer's articles suggest using a "wench-equipped pickup" and whose fault was this little blunder? Bonus points for attaching scan of the original misprint.

Your recollection is correct.

Page 382 of my copy of Hatcher's Notebook: "He pronounces his name Garand[*], with the G hard as in go, and the stress on the first syllable, to rhyme with parent.

*The name is shown with breve (smiley mouth) over both as in Hatcher's text, but that marking is not available in the Windows character set.

--Bob

� = Alt + 0224
� = Alt + 0225
� = Alt + 0226
� = Alt + 0227
� = Alt + 0228
� = Alt + 0229

Take your pick!

Tee hee. Good one, Ken.

Really?





Actually, I cheated a little. The character is available in Windows, but apparently not in HTML. Maybe I'm wrong.

The smiley face over the "a" indicates a "short" a. If both a's in Garand are short, I would think the name would be pronounced GAR-und.

Then how was I able to enter �, �, �, �, �, and � so easily above without cheating? What have I missed?

I thought the above knowledge was limited to ol' typesetters and such! But editors? Don't they all just Insert... symbol now? Next you are going to start with Linotype codes? (yes, even in deep Southern Canada we had linotype machines)

The "code" for is 0063. Now, try entering alt+0063 and post it and see what you get. Here's what I get:

?

If I copy the character in Excel and paste it here, I get this:

ă

They always looked kinda queer to me.

Alongside my 'puter hangs a reminder sheet that lists the keyboardable extra ASCII characters that anybody can type by holding the Alt key down while typing the number-pad strings 0127 through 0255. (They don't work with my laptop, because it doesn't have a number pad.)

I use a few of these characters so often that I don't have to consult the reminder sheet for 'em (�, �, �, �, and �, for example).

There are other ASCII characters, with lower and higher Alt+ numbers, but the spread from Alt+0127 to Alt+0255 amply covers all the characters that I'm likely to need.

Text-entry programs vary a little in which ASCII characters they assign to which Alt+ string, but the ones on my handy reminder sheet are the same for most of 'em.

My reminder sheet also reminds me that to put the hollow-outline cross dingbat at the end of each of my theological essays, I just have to switch to the "Wingding" font and type U.

Handy!

How bout eye-talian? Does that mean you live in eye-taly?

On the History Channel they claimed that John Garand pronounced his name GAIR-und.

The Alaskans I know say CHIT-na and TAN-a-naw.

I've heard Yoopers say a-ZAK-ly for exactly.

Time's up. It's called a "flechette." Don't ask me how to pronounce it.

Ken & Big_Redhead-

Before I posted the quote from Hatcher, I checked a couple of lists of html symbols and was not able to find lower case "a" with the breve mark. I did find the characters that Ken posted, but they were not what appeared in Hatcher's book.

The breve mark may not available in either Windows or html character sets. I found the following in a Microsoft on-line document http://support.microsoft.com/kb/98999:


Here's what I was looking for, and could not find:


--Bob

Oddly, that symbol indicates the sound of the "a" in bad or cat. If both "a"s in the name are to be pronounced that way, then it's really not "GAIR-" at all.