Re: USAGE: Cool idioms (was Re: Bibliography)
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, March 28, 1999, 1:59 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
> "Nacogdoches is full of roaches!"
> (Means obviously, this place is roach-infested or otherwise messy.)
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> (I grew up in Nacogdoches, but I was born in nearby Lufkin.)
For the benefit of our non-American/non-Texan readers, that's
/n&k@doutS@z/, one of the more bizarrely pronounced Texan
towns...
Which reminds me, does anyone have city names or other proper
names that they spell unphonetically, because of some conhistorical
or concultural tradition? I know there are quite a few British cities
whose names would stump most any American (Leicester, e.g., IIRC,
is /lEst@/)...
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