[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus]
It’s route, rhymes with boot. It doesn’t rhyme with about.
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You do know that ‘boot’ and ‘about’ rhyme, right? 
Could someone here tell me what this is,
Posted at my local (main branch) library to promote, well . . . something:
cultursmart \kuhl-cher-smahrt\ v. - to impress by expressing knowledge.
Verb!? ORLY.
[QUOTE=Dead Badger]
Bah, stoopid timeouts prevent me from posting this and I get wiki-pipped.
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[QUOTE=Baffle]
You do know that ‘boot’ and ‘about’ rhyme, right?
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Damn Canadians
[QUOTE=fishbicycle]
Another word gone to hell is “strictly.” I’ve seen three different posts here in the last week where someone typed “strickly.”
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Probably the same goobers who talk about track houses and religious tracks.
[QUOTE=saoirse]
Is that where we get that ironic oxide?
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No, no. Remember when George Michael was going through that stupid Faith phase and wearing that black leather jacket with “Rocker’s Revenge” stenciled on the back? The jacket, I’m fairly sure, was made of ironic oxhide.
[QUOTE=AskNott]
Gonna is too deeply rooted to be eradicated. Some even believe that in derives from Ghana in W. Africa, birthplace of famed hostage negotiator Amatalia Watt-Amaghanadu
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[QUOTE=JustThinkin’]
After lurking for a long time, I signed up as a guest today just to
BWA HA HA HA HA giggle giggle giggle.
Can I use this, AskNott? Please?
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Help yourself. You probably mean “Amatalia Watt-Amaghanadu,” but you are welcome to any part of it. Just give me credit. 
It’s “Dalmatian”, not “Dalmation”.
Please.
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus]
My pet peeve is “I can’t bare it”. No, you can’t BEAR it you idiot! If you couldn’t bare it that would imply you couldn’t remove your clothes.
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I like when someone is talking about getting upset and “balling”. Sex never solved anything; what you wanted was a good cry.
[QUOTE=gigi]
I like when someone is talking about getting upset and “balling”. Sex never solved anything; what you wanted was a good cry.
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Clearly, the person is explaining plans to go hoop it up on the hardcourt to work out any aggression.
[QUOTE=Baffle]
You do know that ‘boot’ and ‘about’ rhyme, right?
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Where are you living? ‘Boot’ and ‘about’ do not rhyme. ‘Boot’ rhymes with ‘loot’, ‘toot’, and ‘moot’. ‘About’ rhymes with ‘lout’ and ‘spout’, and almost rhymes with ‘kraut’.
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
Where are you living? ‘Boot’ and ‘about’ do not rhyme. ‘Boot’ rhymes with ‘loot’, ‘toot’, and ‘moot’. ‘About’ rhymes with ‘lout’ and ‘spout’, and almost rhymes with ‘kraut’.
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Out of curiosity, what’s the difference in your accent between the ending of “kraut” and those of “spout”/“lout”/“about”?
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
Out of curiosity, what’s the difference in your accent between the ending of “kraut” and those of “spout”/“lout”/“about”?
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It’s hard to describe, but the ‘au’ in ‘kraut’ is slightly longer, and sounds like ‘ow’ in “Ow! I hit something!”. The ‘ou’ in ‘spout’ and the other words sounds slightly more like an e.
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
It’s hard to describe, but the ‘au’ in ‘kraut’ is slightly longer, and sounds like ‘ow’ in “Ow! I hit something!”. The ‘ou’ in ‘spout’ and the other words sounds slightly more like an e.
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So you would say the “au” in “kraut” is like the one in “loud”? I.e., it doesn’t undergo Canadian raising, despite being followed by the unvoiced consonant ‘t’?
(If so, do you suppose this irregularity is because “Kraut” is manifestly foreign in origin, and thus insulated from your regular English phonological processes? Or can you think of some other reason?)
[QUOTE=Indistinguishable]
So you would say the “au” in “kraut” is like the one in “loud”? I.e., it doesn’t undergo Canadian raising, despite being followed by the unvoiced consonant ‘t’?
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Yes, ‘au’ in ‘kraut’ sounds like ‘ou’ in ‘loud’ for me.
No idea. Sorry. 
When I got home, I’ll make a little recording so you can hear how I sound when pronouncing those words.
Spoons or Kythereia would be better people to ask this question of, because thay a) know more about linguistics than me, and b) have met me and know what I sound like.
and I DID not own a Datsun. :mad:
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
When I got home, I’ll make a little recording so you can hear how I sound when pronouncing those words.
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Here’s the recording in MP3 format (141 kB). Recorded with Audacity and the microphone in my computer.
[sub]And now that you’ve heard my voice, I’ll never get a date again…[/sub]
America is largely a cunt ?
[QUOTE=Illuminatiprimus]
It’s schedule - SH - ed - ewel. Not sked-dual.
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No, it’s not. And as long as you insist on pronouncing it “SH-ed-ewel” I won’t even respond in the affirmative to your damn outlook meeting requests.
[QUOTE=Sunspace]
Here’s the recording in MP3 format (141 kB). Recorded with Audacity and the microphone in my computer.
[sub]And now that you’ve heard my voice, I’ll never get a date again…[/sub]
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I’m willing to pay someone to mix this in to a hardcore technorave, with Sunspace’s permission of course.