Re: OFF-TOPIC: Misspoken... Sort Of

From: "Emily Zilch" <emily0@...>

> 5. Predizent - titular (*snicker*) leader of the USA
'Tit' is a mispronuskiation of 'teat', isn't it?

> 4. Nucular - I don't USE this one, I just fall down laughing every time
> G Bush does. If I had a nickel for each time...
Depending on what part of Texas you're in, you might also hear other
dyslalias like 'bidness' and 'extry'. The infamous 'howdy' itself is a
contraction of 'how do you do'. Texanish is all about contractions. Big
state, small utterances.

But I pronounce it 'nucular' because Homer Simpson does. And he's an expert
on nucular physics.

> 3. Kansas ("CANS awe") - street names here are all state names
> 2. Arkansas ("are can SASS") - ditto
My wife (who grew up in Boston among other places) used to say [Ar 'k&n z@s]
with the stress on the second syllable and it drove me NUTS. Glad she never
went to Illinois and publicly pronounced the name of the state with the -s
on the end -- allegedly, it's a crime there.

> 1. Canadia - amusing malapropism derived from Canadian
"Hey German boy, go back to Germania!" -- Nelson Muntz (to Uter, the
exchange student)

And thanks for that info on the Tamil book. I'll have to see if the UT
library has it.

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