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06 May 2011, 4:17 am

Simonono wrote:

Stimming (I still don't know what it means. [...])

Ditto. (No, I don't mean "ditto", I mean "stimming", and I still don't know what it means, either.)

"Lolcat".

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06 May 2011, 4:28 am

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male lesbian. i honestly had never encountered that pairing of words before.

I'm convinced that R. D. Laing once said somewhere that he was a male lesbian, but I can't find any reference to this, only to a case study of his, in which the patient's father was so described. I think I also came up with the phrase to describe myself a long time ago (and so I was quite struck when I saw Laing, a hero of mine, using it to describe himself, even if only jokingly).

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06 May 2011, 5:32 am

meh

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06 May 2011, 9:51 am

i learned that "southron" [despite how my drill instructors used it in army basic training] is NOT really a term of derision for southerners.

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06 May 2011, 12:15 pm

cdfox7 wrote:

Edit: You like the word arse so much then hear the master of arse Ricky Tomlinson in action :wink:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKMJDP-G4gU[/youtube]

Wait the word ARSE is pronounced A-S-S? Why on earth would you put a silent letter in there?! Learn something new everyday...

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06 May 2011, 12:49 pm

get too much of an arse, and pretty soon a hearse will be waiting.

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06 May 2011, 12:54 pm

draelynn wrote:

cdfox7 wrote:

Edit: You like the word arse so much then hear the master of arse Ricky Tomlinson in action :wink:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKMJDP-G4gU[/youtube]

Wait the word ARSE is pronounced A-S-S? Why on earth would you put a silent letter in there?! Learn something new everyday...

Pronounced properly, there is definitely an R in there.

I think Jim's northern delivery has obscured it a bit.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjhnGjppWUI[/youtube]

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06 May 2011, 2:03 pm

Moog wrote:

Pronounced properly, there is definitely an R in there.

I think Jim's northern delivery has obscured it a bit.

Whew! I hate it when my long held beliefs are suddening upended like that. All is right with the world again. Thanks!

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06 May 2011, 2:16 pm

draelynn wrote:

Moog wrote:

Pronounced properly, there is definitely an R in there.

I think Jim's northern delivery has obscured it a bit.

Whew! I hate it when my long held beliefs are suddening upended like that. All is right with the world again. Thanks!

Happy to be of service :lol:

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06 May 2011, 2:22 pm

draelynn wrote:

Moog wrote:

Pronounced properly, there is definitely an R in there.

I think Jim's northern delivery has obscured it a bit.

Whew! I hate it when my long held beliefs are suddening upended like that. All is right with the world again. Thanks!

in most places where it is "arse" rather than "ass", the R is a european soft R [instead of a western hard R] which makes arse sound to these american ears like "AWse."

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06 May 2011, 2:54 pm

auntblabby wrote:

draelynn wrote:

Moog wrote:

Pronounced properly, there is definitely an R in there.

I think Jim's northern delivery has obscured it a bit.

Whew! I hate it when my long held beliefs are suddening upended like that. All is right with the world again. Thanks!

in most places where it is "arse" rather than "ass", the R is a european soft R [instead of a western hard R] which makes arse sound to these american ears like "AWse."

I went to England when I was 16 - I'm good with BBC English but anything harsher, might as well be Swahili. I have trouble with alot of colloquial American English too. Hard southern accent, a fast Texas drawl. Thank god the dictionary has phonetic pronunciation guides... not that anybody follows them.

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06 May 2011, 3:13 pm

draelynn wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOlg_rsRRzw[/youtube]
we have our share of people who can be difficult to understand, right here in canada.

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06 May 2011, 3:19 pm

That sounds suspiciously irish what was said in newfie

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06 May 2011, 3:30 pm

hyperlexian wrote:

draelynn wrote:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOlg_rsRRzw[/youtube]
we have our share of people who can be difficult to understand, right here in canada.

With that cartoon soundtrack in the background I had no hope of picking up anything other than the odd word here or there. Even if it wasn't in there, I doubt it would help any. Interestingly enough, I had a professor who was practiced in US regional dialects. He went around the room guessing everyone's background, where their parents were from, their educational backgrounds. He was eerily accurate until he hit me. He felt my speech was unusually neutral with much proper pronunciation - he guessed my family was West coast and college education for several generations.

Let's just say he was WAY off. I think he was hearing all those dictionary pronunciation guides since the dictionary was one of my favorite books in school.

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06 May 2011, 3:57 pm

Moog wrote:

Pronounced properly, there is definitely an R in there.

I think Jim's northern delivery has obscured it a bit.

Its the proper pronouncion in the Bootle Scouse accent (North Liverpool, theres two accents the other is Toxteth Scouse, South Liverpool) Ricky Tomlinson lived in Walton in the North of Liverpool the same place I lived in my childhood..

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06 May 2011, 5:16 pm

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