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Posted by Trish Brown on June 29, 2009, 10:14 am
One I've noticed lately is 'shined' instead of 'shone'. Not only that,
but the US-flavoured narrators in talking books seem to pronounce
'shone' to rhyme with 'flown' instead of 'john'. Come to think of it,
I've heard lots of US folk say 'scone' to rhyme with 'stone' instead of
'shone' (which ought to rhyme with 'john' but often doesn't).
Drives me insane! (NB. It's only a short journey...)
DD and I have a new theme song. It goes 'Pedant, pedant,
pedantpedantpedantpedant pedaaaa-aa-aa-aa-aa-ant' to the tune of the
Pink Panther theme. Kid's as pedantic as I am, bless 'er!
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Trish Brown
Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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Posted by 1961girl@gmail.com on June 29, 2009, 10:28 am
Well, the shone/stone v. shone/john is an accent thing. We in America
would think *you* are wrong. . .
Anyway - on the topic of grammatical pet peeves -
"WE are pregnant." Drives me right around the bend. If the man is
pregnant, I'd like to see the evidence tyvm! Otherwise, the husband
is (possibly) expecting a baby - only the woman is pregnant!
linda
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Posted by on June 29, 2009, 12:18 pm
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:28:21 -0700 (PDT), "1961girl@gmail.com"
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>Well, the shone/stone v. shone/john is an accent thing. We in America
>would think *you* are wrong. . .
>Anyway - on the topic of grammatical pet peeves -
>"WE are pregnant." Drives me right around the bend. If the man is
>pregnant, I'd like to see the evidence tyvm! Otherwise, the husband
>is (possibly) expecting a baby - only the woman is pregnant!
>linda
Which puts me in mind of my grandmother who always declared "If the
wife had the first and the husband had the second, there might be a
third but there would never be a fourth" -
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Posted by F.James Cripwell on June 29, 2009, 1:51 pm
(lucretiaborgia@fl.it) writes:
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> Which puts me in mind of my grandmother who always declared "If the
> wife had the first and the husband had the second, there might be a
> third but there would never be a fourth" -
My version of this was that if there was a third child, there would be a
guarantee of a fourth. Because women are not only seductive; they are
also vindictive. Jim.
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Posted by Pat P on June 29, 2009, 11:07 am
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> One I've noticed lately is 'shined' instead of 'shone'. Not only that, but
> the US-flavoured narrators in talking books seem to pronounce 'shone' to
> rhyme with 'flown' instead of 'john'. Come to think of it, I've heard lots
> of US folk say 'scone' to rhyme with 'stone' instead of 'shone' (which
> ought to rhyme with 'john' but often doesn't).
> Drives me insane! (NB. It's only a short journey...)
> DD and I have a new theme song. It goes 'Pedant, pedant,
> pedantpedantpedantpedant pedaaaa-aa-aa-aa-aa-ant' to the tune of the Pink
> Panther theme. Kid's as pedantic as I am, bless 'er!
> --
> Trish Brown
> Newcastle, NSW, Australia
The pronunciation of Scone has always been the subject of argument! As long
as the jam and clotted cream come with them I don`t CARE!!! Actually it
would be a good substitute for the salad-cream versus mayo argument!
Pat
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>would think *you* are wrong. . .
>Anyway - on the topic of grammatical pet peeves -
>"WE are pregnant." Drives me right around the bend. If the man is
>pregnant, I'd like to see the evidence tyvm! Otherwise, the husband
>is (possibly) expecting a baby - only the woman is pregnant!
>linda