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

EZ> 4. Nucular - I don't USE this one, I just fall down laughing every time
EZ> G Bush does. If I had a nickel for each time...

Ah, but this one is listed as an alternate pronunciation in the AHD.
I fear we've lost the war.

EZ> 2. Arkansas ("are can SASS") - ditto
CXS /A`r\k@n's&s/; I'd have expected /A`r/'k&nz@s/ instead.

Lots of mispronounced Spanish around here in Georgia; Peggy Hill's got
nothing on our street and city names.  The archetypical example is a major
street that runs from downtown Atlanta east through Decatur to Stone
Mountain called Ponce de Leon Avenue, pronounced /pAnsd@"lijAn/.
There's also a town further south well-known for its furniture
wholesalers, Unadilla /,jun@'dIl@/.

EZ> 1. Canadia - amusing malapropism derived from Canadian

I sometimes say "Canadan" . . . it's quite self-conscious, though.

RB> But for years I consistenty mis-spelled lizzard and diminuitive/diminuition.

It was only comparatively recently - and I'm 36 - that I learned how to
spell "minuscule".

> Mrs. Hill's Spanish is pretty good, too.
Her Spanish is excellent; she's darn near fluent.  It's just her accent
that's atrocious. :)

-Mark

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