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Deirdre
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Yeah, that's it.
It's that not only silent but invisible "K".
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| bobsouer wrote: | | Deirdre wrote: | | I was surprised to find "Roentgen" is not pronounced Rent-jen in parts of the medical world, no matter WHAT the dictionary says. |
Deirdre,
When I worked at a nuclear physics lab in the early 80s, we pronounced it "RENK-en". |
That's how I was told to pronounce it as well.
I do the "Ri-Ra Pub Quiz" as the Quiz Master here in Charlotte every Tuesday night, so I get plenty of advice on how to pronounce things as I read out the questions over the PA system. Roentgen was a recent "correction". They are always so proud to tell me what I say incorrectly.
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Diane Maggipinto
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| Quote: | "PIN number"
Would that be your Personal Identification Number number? |
And VIN number, too. I once tried to explain to a bank teller that it's actually not PIN number. Doesn't take much explanation, does it? He didn't get it.
Bob Souer said:
| Quote: | | When I worked at a nuclear physics lab in the early 80s |
and I just can't let that pass by. Whhhaaaaaaaaaaa?? You did???
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bobsouer
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| Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| BettieWheelie wrote: |
Bob Souer said:
| Quote: | | When I worked at a nuclear physics lab in the early 80s |
and I just can't let that pass by. Whhhaaaaaaaaaaa?? You did??? |
Diane,
Yes. Very strange situation. I was a security guard by night and did voiceovers for their in-house video news program by day. More than 20 years on, I still do the voiceovers for them, but thankfully I haven't had to support myself as a security guard in quite a few years now.
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Hasser
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Well Bob,
That would explain your GLOW
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bobsouer
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| Hasser wrote: | Well Bob,
That would explain your GLOW |
Ralph,
No, the glow is just the reflected light from my balding head.  I never got close to the limit on my radiation dosimeter.
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With all the debate about undocumented ex-patriates these days, I've been hearing: "EE-legal" a lot. It's more like Ill-legal, isn't it?
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| Quote: | | When I worked at a nuclear physics lab..... |
Nuclear physics? Man! Them musta had ought been some kinda powerful - I betcha they worked real fast! |
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asnively
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| donrandall wrote: | | Quote: | | When I worked at a nuclear physics lab..... |
Nuclear physics? Man! Them musta had ought been some kinda powerful - I betcha they worked real fast! |
Don--calling them 'physics'-- at least here in the US-- is waaaay old school! I only know what you're on about 'coz my grandfather used to use that term.
That said, very funny! At least to me, and the residents of the convalescent home down the way...
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Deirdre
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I was corrected for saying "logistics" as
loe-JIST-iks
the other day-- client wanted
luh-JIST-iks
schwa for the first vowel sound. I notice I also tend to overpronounce the first "O" in "Correspondence". That's just me, for whatever peculiar reason.
Larry Moss calls it one's "idiolect".
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Don G.
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I may well have asked this in the past, but...
1. If I did, I forgot the answer(s)
2. I'm too lazy at the moment to search
Anyway, until just a few years ago, I had always heard the word succinct pronounced as suh-sinkt'. Then I discovered that according to the dictionary, it it supposed to be pronounced suk-sinkt'. Of course it doesn't help when I hear actors and others in all facets of the media pronouncing it "my" way. It's probably why I figured it was right. Old habits are tough to break.
So how do you pronounce succinct? |
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bobsouer
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| Don G. wrote: | | So how do you pronounce succinct? |
Don,
I'm one of thoese weird people who actually used to read the dictionary (Webster's 3rd International unabridged) for fun. I say suk-sinkt'.
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Bruce
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I do the TV VO's for American Federal Bank in North Dakota and they prefere it if I drop the middle E and call it American Fedral, so I do.
I guess I don't mind dropping a few key strokes here and there to save time, but I still draw the line at "ait" for "all right"
Now, on a tangent, would you tell a friend in person that a movie you saw in the theater made you "roll on the floor and laugh your ass off"? No, for one thing you'd be covered with cola crud and half chewed bits of candy that stuck to the crud. Would you try to pronounce "roflmao" and sound like a cat stuck in a dog suit? I don't thinks so. (Well some in this group would, but we're a bit different,eh?)
My point? I don't know, I took AmbienCR last night for the first time and I'm dizzy and ditzy all at one, but it had something to do with neologisms and their survival rate, but I'm going to need a nother coff of cuppee to finish this thought.
Over and out,
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Bruce
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P.S. Trying to be suksihnkt, how many of you actually pronounce all of the syllables in vacuum (VAC-u-uhm)?
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Deirdre
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I say s'c-SINKT. No real vowel sound in the 1st syllable, but a K sound is there.
Vac-yoome.
I don't know anyone who says vac-you-um.
"rotflmao" is not pronounceable, only type-able as are most of those chat slangies.
Although is is a scream to hear someone say "LOL"!
And Bob— I used to and still DO read the dictionary for fun. It all began with the very first Americn Heritage Dictionary back in 197x. It's still my hard-copy resource of choice.
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