[78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^ [fwd]

Fri Jan 2 10:17:01 PST 2009

I once heard George Harrison in a Beatles interview pronounce a
certain month such that it sounded like 'februeddy'.   Listen to BBC
Radio Scotland and you'll hear 'jan-uree' and 'feb-u-ree'....

As for the water thing....'spigot' I understood to be the device on
something like the toy water truck from Dad's childhood that water
could come out, 'faucet' for the fixture apparatus in a bathroom or
kitchen, and 'tap' what beer or whatever is is dispensed from in a bar
or such like.

On 1/2/09, Bud Black <banjobud at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> Faucet.
>
> Bud
>
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: Mike Harkin
> Date: 01/02/09 03:32:01
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^ [fwd]
>
> What did people get water out of:  tap, spout or spigot?
>
> Mike in Plovdiv
>
>
> --- On Thu, 1/1/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 9:53 PM
>> Most of Toronto can't cope with one particular street
>> name without ADDING a
>> consonant to it. "Eglinton" is pronounced the way
>> it's spelled, except by just
>> about every announcer and traffic reporter, who make it
>> "Eglington". (And let's
>> not get into Roncesvalles, Balliol, Baby Point, Delhi etc.)
>>
>> Bud Black wrote:
>> > And do you pronounce the "R" in February?
>>
>> You betcha!
>>
>> > Or is it "Feb-ya-wary"?
>> >
>> > Bud
>> >
>> Nope, still only Jan-ya-wary.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> > -------Original Message-------
>> >
>> > From: David Lennick
>> > Date: 1/2/2009 12:09:20 AM
>> > To: 78-L Mail List
>> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^
>> >
>> > Michael Biel wrote:
>> >> David Lennick wrote:
>> >>> I seen a fillum in the thee-AY-ter.
>> >>>
>> >>> dl
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> And did you have a co-cola?  When I moved here the
>> guy across the street
>> >> always said co-cola.  I said "No, it is
>> co-ca-cola."  He replied,
>> >> "That's what I said, co-cola."  And
>> when I lived in Missouri I went to a
>> >> cook-out at my landlord's place where he asked
>> me if I wanted any
>> >> sodeee-pop.  I thought he was kidding around and
>> making fun of his own
>> >> accent, but then I heard him the entire afternoon
>> talking about sodeee-pop
>> >
>> > "Youse want more beer?" Thus inquired the
>> waitress at a steak house in
>> > Oshawa
>> > (just a half hour east of Toronto as you know).
>> "Youse" is heard in many
>> > medium
>> > sized towns in Ontario. In Buffalo and along the
>> Niagara frontier, any word
>> > containing a short "a" has an "ay"
>> preceding it..i.e. Amherst is pronounced
>> > "Ayamherst". I remembered this the other
>> week when I took an item into the
>> > Radio Shack repair depot for Graham Newton, and told
>> them his name..which
>> > they
>> > promptly typed up as "Gram".
>> >
>> >> People often talk about the impossibility of
>> understanding rap and
>> >> ghetto-speak.  And Stan Freberg made fun of the
>> R&B singers purposefully
>> >> mumbling in Sha-boom.  Yet I felt at the time that
>> so many Black singers
>> >> were perfect in their enunciation, like Nat King
>> Cole and even Frankie
>> >> Lyman, much more than many White singers.  Elvis
>> mumbled.  Fats Domino
>> >> enunciated.
>> >
>> > But Nat sang about reindeers, and carols sung by
>> require.
>> >
>> > dl
>> >>
>> >>> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> We won't even get into nuclear as
>> "nu-cle-ar" (this one's correct) and
>> >>>> "nu-clear" or
>> "nu-cu-ler".
>> >>>> I like nuculer, myself.
>> >>>> Not!
>> >>>> M
>> >>>>
>> >>>> *******
>> >>>>
>> >>>> martha wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> nooz is fine, according to the
>> dictionary and most people I've ever
>> > heard. So is
>> >>>>> pomm.
>> >>>>> 'nee-ooz' sounds like an
>> affectation to me, unless the speaker is not
>> > US American.
>> >>>>> My family came from
>> "CarNAYgie", PA,  where "fill-um" was
>> the norm!
>> > Always
>> >>>>> "automobile", too - never
>> "car".
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> And why do both the outgoing &
>> incoming Presidents have trouble with 'z
>> >  at the end
>> >>>>> of words? Usually they use
>> "sss" : jobsss , ideasss, etc.  That and
>> > dumbin' down the
>> >>>>> endin' to most "-ing"
>> wordsss shouldn't be done by people from Ivy
>> > League colleges.
>> >>>>> Collegesss, pardon me.  :)
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>>>> From: "Malcolm Rockwell"
>> <malcolm at 78data.com>
>> >>>>> To: "78-L Mail List"
>> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> >>>>> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:14
>> PM
>> >>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Deep Ellum Blues^
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> Dnjchi at aol.com wrote:
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> In a message dated 1/1/2009
>> 11:11:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> >>>>>>> banjobud at cfl.rr.com writes:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Hey, I  dunno about you, but I
>> pronounce the "L" in calm, palm and
>> > balm.   I
>> >>>>>>> don't say "comm, pomm
>> or bomm.  But then I spent a few years as a
>> > radio
>> >>>>>>> announcer.
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>> Doesn't always help.
>> There's a newscaster on NPR radio that
>> > repeatedly says
>> >>>>>>> "NPR Nooz."
>> >>>>>>> Don Chichester
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>>>>> *******
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> Yes, "nooz" instedda
>> "neews." Uck.
>> >>>>>> But what really drives me nuts is
>> Wed-nes-day!
>> >>>>>> Wensday?
>> >>>>>> M
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
>> >
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