[Sca-cooks] Reptilian Pronunciation

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 10:54 AM 5/23/02 -0400, you wrote:

>I hereby declare that the Official, Legitimate, Alternative,
>Particularly American pronunciation of "antidisestablishmentarianism"
>is "cheese mite". Anyone who disagrees is obviously an intolerant
>American-basher and a linguistic ignoramus who will be ritually
>reviled at the next International Philologist's Ball...

What! It isn't pronounced 'throat-warbler-mangrove'?

>>  > This of course does not explain why jaguar and guarantee are
pronounced so
>>>  differently, when the same four-letter pattern is present. Personally, I
>>>  think that is a question for Dr. Johnson!
>
>Yes, he can discuss it with the authors of the definitive
>Guarani-Tupi/Tupi-Guarani dictionary...
>
>Adamantius, who tends to agree with Edmund Blackadder on the subject
>of Dr. Johnson

ROTFLMAO!
Poor Edmund- all that work, up in smoke...

'Lainie
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