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Bourg*euil* on the web
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Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by SFJoe:
I hear it pronounced that way pretty often, too.originally posted by MLipton:
Reisling.
Who on earth says "Rye-sling"?
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by SFJoe:
Or for people of Irish ancestry visiting France.originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Not to mention that all rules are off when dealing with proper names (at least in Portuguese, I imagine it's the same in English).
It's only fitting that someone who drinks so many stickies should have a last name that starts with "Doux."
Jonathan Loesberg
Jonathan Loesberg
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Since in English on rarely sees i after e, English speakers often write the name of my hometown as Rio de Janiero, and have similar difficulties with other words containing ei.
Funny, Oswaldo. Merkins are also noted to very consistently misspell Riesling as Reisling. Go figger!
Mark Lipton
Not knowing what/who a merkin is, I googled it and found quite the explanation in wiki!
Yes, when Lyndon Johnson addressed his fellow citizens, he clearly perceived them oddly. A joke that dates back that far.
Chris Weber
Chris Weber
Of course, if you spell something wrong often enough, it'll show up in the next version of the dictionary that either is correct. Which is probably the way it should be. After all, the dictionary is supposed to reflect what people are saying, even if it ain't a word.
originally posted by Chris Weber:
After all, the dictionary is supposed to reflect what people are saying, even if it ain't a word.
That's one viewpoint in a surprisingly heated debate between the prescriptivists and the descriptivists (guess which camp your argument is embraced by?) If you haven't read David Foster Wallace's 127 pp. review of Bryan A. Garner's "A Dictionary of American Usage" in Harper's ("Tense Present: Democracy, English and Wars Over Usage") you owe it to yourself to read it.
Mark Lipton
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Wholeheartedly agree. Weirdly enough, I was just reading an interesting article about DFW and thinking (contrarian-style, perhaps) about the huge gap between his brilliant essays and his really, really plodding fiction.
And that I have to get my copy of Consider the Lobster back from a friend I lent it to.
Unrelatedly, it would have been so cool if this thread had been titled "Bourg-oy!" But maybe that's just me.
And that I have to get my copy of Consider the Lobster back from a friend I lent it to.
Unrelatedly, it would have been so cool if this thread had been titled "Bourg-oy!" But maybe that's just me.
Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Wholeheartedly agree. Weirdly enough, I was just reading an interesting article about DFW and thinking (contrarian-style, perhaps) about the huge gap between his brilliant essays and his really, really plodding fiction.
And that I have to get my copy of Consider the Lobster back from a friend I lent it to.
Unrelatedly, it would have been so cool if this thread had been titled "Bourg-oy!" But maybe that's just me.
"Bourg-oy-vey!"
It's positively Thor-worthy.
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Yikes! In French, when they ask you to verify that you believe something, you claim that you "persiste et signe." Here, I may have to desist and sign...
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by SFJoe:
I hear it pronounced that way pretty often, too.originally posted by MLipton:
Reisling.
Who on earth says "Rye-sling"?
too many