Re: Introducing Paul Burgess and his radioactive imagination!

John Cowan wrote:
> Tristan scripsit:
>
>>Is ["caoutchouc"] pronounced the way I hope it is?
>
> The first syllable is indeed as in "cow"; the second can be as in "foot"
> or as in "pool".  There are even some folks who make the -c silent.
Yup, that's what I thought. Good old cowchook.

>>(For those who don't know, 'chook' is a dialectal word
>>for 'chicken'.)
>
> With "oo" as in "foot" or as in "pool"?
Rhymes with 'book'.

Tristan.