[Sca-cooks] Reptilian Pronunciation (was Drive up ATM's OT,OOP (was Languages)
Philippa Alderton
phlip_u at yahoo.com
Thu May 23 08:56:33 PDT 2002
--- Selene skrev:
> My freshman chemistry TA at UCLA was English,
> educated at Oxford. He got
> tired of the teasing about his pronunciations and
> shot back, "While your
> ancestors were painting themselves and killing
> buffalo, my ancestors were
> discovering al-you-min-ium and mee-thane."
The obvious answer to that would be, "Funny. I was
under the distinct impression that MY ancestors were
busy building a new country and kicking Your
ancestors' overbearing tails out of the New World."
Phlip, nah, not an American, or proud of it.....
=====
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And never a rider who cain't be throwed....
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