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[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

What we Americans must understand is that the word must be pronounced as rhyming with "woody", and it must be followed by "ell" so closely as to make it one three-syllable word.

Here, as I know a man of your travel is aware, it rhymes most closely with muddy. At least where I come from.

And termed with hell it can even become a two syllable word. Best rendered as "blu'll".

I have to watch my mouth in polite conversation, because despite the fact that neither of my parents swore in front of us growing up, some of Mum's phraseology is very rude. Especially the simile "like/ as... buggery". I know I've mentioned it before. Not knowing exactly what buggery was, it seemed quite natural to say things like "burnt to buggery" or "bled like buggery". In her defence, she didn't mean it in a literal sense either - at some point, someone in her past must have used it as the ultimate extreme. Maybe Cousin Tommy who was shut up in the glasshouse during WWII for stealing from his superior officer and going AWOL to be with his knocked up girlfriend (!)
Crims in the family; I got them.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

They've spotted a Penguin, happy & healthy, 60 miles downstream.

Thanks Bruce, I missed that.
Penguins. Bless.