[Sca-cooks] Reptilian Pronunciation (was Drive up ATM's OT,OOP (was Languages)

[Patrick McKinnion]

on 5/23/02 8:46 AM, Susan Fox-Davis at selene at earthlink.net wrote:

> 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."

    Padraig's rule of survival #15 - never tease a Brit about their
pronunciation.    Odds are they're closer to right than you are - and if
they aren't, they'll never admit it.    :-)

    - Padraig o Connell