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SirDennisC
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May 28 2012, 4:16am
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Ha! much better than impactful...
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though it has a ring of a type of retentiveness -- the number two cause of difficult exchanges -- inciteful is a much better word for such discussions.
(This post was edited by SirDennisC on May 28 2012, 4:22am)
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Starling
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May 28 2012, 7:39am
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Now it's 7 degrees and hailing. Hot on the heels of a Nor' Wester, nearly always comes a freezing Southerly. It's four seasons in one day round these parts.
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DanielLB
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May 28 2012, 4:20pm
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I use to live in East Anglia (UK) and not far from a place called: Wymondham. It still boogles me today how it is pronounced!
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sherlock
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May 28 2012, 5:31pm
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Word Perfect, too. I haven't used it in while but I did 25 years ago when I was a secretary at a hospital. I had to work with documents that other people had created with Word Perfect who didn't know how to use it. The reveal codes feature was really handy for that. I work with numbers & spreadsheets now but I kind of miss some aspects of what I used to do.
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Eowyn of Penns Woods
Valinor
May 28 2012, 7:18pm
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Odd. *We* got hail yesterday evening out of the northwest. No A/C for folks without power here.//
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dernwyn
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May 28 2012, 10:02pm
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Yep, I thought they'd pronounce "Wymondham" like "Windom". But that's because I grew up around Worcester (Mass.), which most locals pronounce "Wuster" - that first vowel is a sort of cross between "uh" and "oo"; if you listen to the Forvo samples, the second person must be from Maine. And it's right next to Leicester ("Lester"). The most unusual place-name I think I've encountered is Cholmondeley ("Chumlee").
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Longbottom Leaf
Lorien
May 28 2012, 11:22pm
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I'm sure I will never grow weary of TORN as long as good folks like yourself are gathered here!
The best weed in the southfarthing!
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DanielLB
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May 29 2012, 7:08am
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For ages I just assumed it was literally pronounced Wy-mond-ham. Get rid of all those extra letters!! Cholmondeley certainly is more unusual that Wymondham. They must be fed up with people saying it wrong
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sherlock
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May 29 2012, 10:06am
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I have a friend who's from Sheffield
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& she uses love a lot. Once she called me a cheeky monkey which I thought was really cool - describes me perfectly!
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geordie
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May 29 2012, 12:25pm
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I pronounce it Windam (or actually Windham)
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Try Bicester. Or Cirencester. Both towns are in Gloucestershire. Come to think of it, try to say Gloucestershire. It's a lot easier then remembering how to spell it!
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dernwyn
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May 30 2012, 10:26am
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That's easy enough to pronounce, just like Worcestershire! (Gloucester being only a few miles away from Worcester...Massachusetts did end up with a lot of those place-names.) I remember reading once that the "cester" in a town name indicates that a castle had been built there.
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Arandiel
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May 31 2012, 4:35am
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Okay, I feel qualified to speak to that one
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It's a formal phrase, one that I believe originates in the world of politics. A person who can speak to something is one who has some authority or expertise on the matter, or will give evidence or commentary on it. Example: An expert witness will speak to the merits of a pending piece of legislation. It's a turn of phrase that makes me just a tiny bit nostalgic for my days as a legislative aide!
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