"Pendantic"?

Is that anything like "pedantic"?

Or is your computer like mine, self-willed and adding letters here and there, like "catchiiiing"?

Is it pedantic to point out spelling errors? <g>

So I will be IN Oregon in a few weeks. Should I just try reeeally hard not to say the name?
Because relaford says it the way the Yankee says it and I think that is not correct

MikeT, I'd be interested to read the source of your info, since my experience growing up in St. Louis was exactly the opposite. Everyone I knew in the upper middle class, college educated suburbs, including my teachers, said Missour-ee. We always thought Missourah was for country bumpkins or people from out of state who didn't know any better.

No worries, Scarlett, you pronounce it the way most locals do. Even if not, most of us are suckers for the charming accent. ;-)

Lawsy, Thank you do you live there too beachbum?

Plaid flannel shirt and all.....

Marilyn, Perhaps it's an East MO vs West MO thing. My husband, a well educated guy from Kansas City, has always said you can tell the natives because they say Missourah. Everyone else says Missouree. Nothing class related about it.

Hmmm, obxgirl, another childhood belief shattered. Next you'll be telling me there's no Santa Claus.

I know Marilyn, it is hard to post here and still keep your innocence~

beachbum,

What? No Santa Claus? Someone is saying there is no Santa Claus??!! NAHHHHH!

MikeT: "Is it pedantic to point out spelling errors?" Not in my case. Every new word has me running for my dictionary. For all I know, "pendantic" is a perfectly good word.

Ran across another word today: calamites. Not only is this word not in my dictionary, I don't even know how it is pronounced!

Easytraveler: this may help

http://education.yahoo.com/reference.../c0024400.html

Of Course there IS a Santa Claus!

pendantic might hang from your neck?

Calamite-Kal a Mite
is someone a fossil hunter?

Scarlett in Flaarda

What did Delaware? Idaho, Alaska. She wore her New Jersey! Never heard of a verse with Oregon. This reminds me of my grandmother telling a friend of mine that he was mispronouncing his last name. She insisted it was Benwah not the very plebian Benoit.

No Santa Claus??? I SO did not get the memo about Santa Claus.

I choose to believe.

seetheworld: thanks so much for the yahoo site! Another new place to visit and revisit!

Scarlett: sorry no. Methinks the writer did misuse a word, after all, he was writing about "eunuchs and calamites" giving the distinct impression that "calamites" were some kind of humans not extinct trees!

For all English lovers:

Taking off on George B Shaw's famous spelling:

"GH as in 'rough'
O as in 'women'
TI as in 'nation'

GHOTI = ?"

Here are a couple of other English spellings:

GH as in "night"
O as in "people"
T as in "bouquet"
I as in "piece"

and GHOTI = ?



Or this one:

If GH stands for P as in Hiccough
If OUGH stands for O as in Dough
If PHTH stands for T as in Phthisis
If EIGH stands for A as in Neighbor
If TTE stands for T as in Gazette
If EAU stands for O as in Plateau
the right way to spell POTATO should be GHOUGHPHTHEIGHTTEEAU!

[Pleease! No raw tomatoes C ]

If you are from New England, it goes like this:

If Miss-issippi wore a New Jersey,
What did Dela-ware?
I dunno. Alaska. (I'll ask 'er.)

And for us, it's Or-a-gone.

And for the old-timers:
Cal-i-phone-e-a.

Oh -
And is it:
St. Louis
or
St. Louie
???

Forked River, New Jersey.

Why do they pronounce it Fork-Ed River?

Shouldn't it be pronounced Forkt River?

At the risk of further turning my world upside down, everyone I ever knew from there called it St. Loo-is, pronouncing the "s."

Easy, ghoti = fish, if I remember correctly, no?

And surely the writer meant "catamite?"