Re: CHAT: English is SO HARD, even the English can't speak it

On 7/5/07, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
>
> I have been known to refer to a certain
> singer as Tuna Teener.


I should perhaps point out that I pronounce the word "tuna" without the
onglide: /'tun@/, not /'tjun@/.  It's still kind of odd, since a simple
transposition would yield "Turna Teener" with /t@`r\n@/ for the first word.


As with our 32nd Presidenr


Well, besides the obvious typo, I seem to have miscounted;Hoover was the
31st.  Who'd I miss? Lessee.  W is 43, so Clinton was 42,  Bush Sr  41,
Reagan  40, Carter  39, Ford 38, Nixon 37, Johnson 36, Kennedy 35,
Eisenhower 34,

Truman!  How could I forget Truman?   FDR died in office, and it's not like
Eisenhower was his VP.  *sigh*

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>