[Sca-cooks] RE:Reptilian pronunciation

Philip & Susan Troy troy at asan.com
Thu May 23 05:54:10 PDT 2002


Also sprach Diamond Randall:
>Down here in the South, the 'ua' gets modified into a very faint
>'waah', we pronounce it jag' waahr (with a fully voiced R).  This
>is how the Webster's New Collegiate calls for it (jag' war -with
>the 'a' as in "cart").  How else would one pronounce it unless you
>have an affectation towards fakey British or really are British?
>
>Food content:  anyone got any good recipes for jaguar soup?

Nope, but I remember, as a kid, hearing a song on the "Dr. Demento"
radio program, called "The Man Who Ate His Car"...

Adamantius



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