Your Daily Trivia: The word for a group of baboons is a congress.
Yeah, this is ridiculous. Eye-rack and Eye-ran, along with Chilly and Mexico are totally valid pronunciations of those countries when speaking English. Ee-rock, Ee-rahn, Chee-lay, and May-hee-co cannot be said without sounding pretentious.
I dunnoi. “Ee-rock” and “ee-rahn” have passed into the mainstream, at least for me. The others, though, still sound slightly high-falutin’ to my ears (not so much the Chile pronunciation, but moreso the Mexico one.)
What does it matter how loyalized he is to America? Does he republicanate good?
Those two are the same thing said as two different things, but they’re not.
And, worst of all, Ee-gypped. Nothing like how it’s pronounced.
“Recruiterments” aside, the admission that “Benghazi is all about getting Clinton” is the important thing to watch, here, and I’m sure it will come up again and again assuming Clinton beats Sanders and gets the honor of burning the last Bush. They chose that Hillgazhi, now they can die on it…
??? How should it be pronounced?
(And if you say “Bolivia,” it’s a cream pie inna smacka!)
I pit anyone who thinks that a President’s primary job is public speaking. Or even a Speaker’s primary job.
/misˤɾ/ or possibly /masˤɾ/. Link
If we’re getting all high and mighty about “correct pronunciation”, well, there’s only one source of authority for that, isn’t there?
Yes, embarrassed is the key. I remember W looking embarrassed as he realized he’d said something stupid. I didn’t see that here. That’s whats scary. He looked so confident in what he was saying.
I do think they should rename the position if he wins because “Speaker” of the House would be too ironic. Head Chicken Herder would be more appropriate anyway.
Oh, don’t get started on that – we had a thread about names different from the originals back in 2002 ( http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-109434.html )
If the guy can’t organize his thoughts on the paper he was reading from, how can anyone know if he ever has a cogent thought? Clearing thinking is most definitely part of the job.
Bush 41 wasn’t a clear thinker?
It sounded like he had not rehearsed his speech, and was getting all mealy-mouthed. Public speaking 101 - rehearse your damned speech. I highly doubt his notes that he kept looking at contained the word salad.
At least, I hope not.
“Ma? Ma? Did you put methedrine in the chicken feed again?..”
Sweet bleeding Og, he is channeling Eva Peron?
The Twitter feed @KevinMcCarthy is owned by some other dude named Kevin McCarthy. He’s appreciate it if you’d stop tweeting him about how much you hate Republican Kevin McCarthy, who is gross. Also - he thinks you should vote for Hillary.
Are those words even related? Or is this a Germany vs. Deutschland vs. Alemania kind of thing?
It’s gotta be. Like, “Livorno” is not pronounced “Leghorn.” Okay, right. But Egypt is pronounced “Eeh-gypped” and not “Misr.” Some other word is pronounced Misr.
No…many sources of authority, sometimes in conflict. It largely comes down to what people actually say – “descriptivism” – but with an element of authoritative scholarship – “prescriptivism” – muddying the waters.
Here in San Diego, we have “Garnet Street.” The locals insist on accenting the second syllable. “gar-NET.” They’re wrong. Even worse are the people who have taken to pronouncing “Cabrillo” as “Cab-rill-oh.” (Should be “Cab-reeh-oh.”) But when enough people do it wrong, the wrong becomes the new right.