Yay!
Like that, @burpo_the_wonder_mutt
Ha!
Oh.
K.
Nope, “quay” rhymes with “bay”. I already posted a song as proof.
Maybe it used to rhyme with “bee”, but if so, that stopped being the case before that song was written (sometime between 1873 and 1895). Language is what people actually use, not what the pedants say they should use.
There was a sidebar discussion over in Site Feedback about a week ago on that topic and somebody flipped a switch and very short posts are now allowed.
The one place I dealt with the word “quay” out in the wild was in New Zealand. Where they pronounce it “key”.
Plus/minus their idiosyncratic take on vowel sounds in general. Idiosyncratic from my POV of course; they think US vowels are pretty idiosyncratic too. ![]()
K
The pronunciation of “quay” as “key” is very much alive in Britain.
You’re missing the obvious. He was going to Botany Bee.
I can post a song as well:
From “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda,” by Eric Bogle.
Que sera sera…
Hm, I’d always assumed that the word in that song was a barrier island, not a wharf. A ship could plausibly pull into either.
I’ll partially concede the point, but say that the word “quay” has two different legitimate (i.e., actually used by speakers of the language) pronunciations.
I love this change so much.
I have a need for brevity occasionally. I know y’all don’t believe it but there are times when words just don’t gush off my keyboard (kee not kay) onto the screen. For you all to read, enjoy, make fun of, spit at your computer screen over.
I have lots of stuff floating around in my head, little concerns, funny words I’m trying to figure out, dog and kitty funzies. Grandwrex frivolity. Just junk, I might wanna say. (Don’t you love it?)
I apologize for my occasional vocipherous crap..I’m usually accommodating to people’s opinion. You know, like whatever, if that’s what you wanna think.
In moments of weakness, hunger and/or sleepiness I do stupid shit. I know y’all understand. ![]()
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We do queer (pronounced “care”)