Quoting Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:
> Bah. Ikea means cheap, solid, honest and pretty furniture.
That's exactly what's wrong with it, yes.
> It's a fashion statement.
Namely, "I've got no taste".
> Oh, and I just *love* Starbucks,
> although it is admittedly overpriced. Methinks that certain
> gentlemen will be tempted to challenge me to a bout of
> fisticuffs now. ;-)
Tempted, indeed! Praising Starbucks is just OTT! :)
> ObNotTotallyOffTopic: We say [i'kXe:A] over here.
Quoting "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:53:03AM +0100, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > (What's the deal with the name of the letter 'k', BTW; in school we were
> > taught [ki:], but everyone and their great aunt's poodle seems to be
> saying
> > [kej]?)
>
> The English name of the letter has always been [kej]. This name is
> Great-Vowel-Shifted directly from the name it had all the way back in
> Roman times, [ka], breaking the usual pattern of using [e] in order to
> distinguish it from [ke] = C.
Makes sense. So I'm left to wonder why my teachers not merely used [ki:]
themselves, but also corrected any poor pupil who said [kej].
Andreas