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Old 12-17-2019, 10:55 PM   #1
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Gotta Talk more Gooder English

The way those uncouth colonials butcher the Queen's English is abominable.
The service should send Steed and Mrs Peel to make them conform.
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Old 12-18-2019, 06:12 AM   #2
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Terpsichore? It's all Greek to me.
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Old 12-18-2019, 09:16 AM   #3
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Oh, I had to look it up to catch that pun.
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Old 12-18-2019, 09:51 AM   #4
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The only one that I know I got wrong was ague, which I thought rhymed with plague, rather than plague you.
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Old 12-18-2019, 02:57 PM   #5
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I've been pronouncing it uh-gyoo.

Ay-gyoo, huh?

Harrumph.
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Old 12-18-2019, 07:21 PM   #6
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Oh, I had to look it up to catch that pun.
We're even then. I had to look it up to make the pun.
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Old 12-18-2019, 08:54 PM   #7
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Hah!

Pardon me, I'm in quite an advanced state of refreshment; to paraphrase our dear Carruthers.
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Old 12-19-2019, 11:29 AM   #8
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To add to the above...

Gloucester

Leicester

Bicester

Worcester*


*Residents of Pennsylvania are excused this one.


Thanks for the name check Mr G.
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Old 12-19-2019, 12:01 PM   #9
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To add to the above...

Gloucester

Leicester

Bicester

Worcester*


*Residents of Pennsylvania are excused this one.


Thanks for the name check Mr G.

I'm told that Looga-Barooga, sorry Loughborough, is the one visitors from across the Atlantic struggle with most.

As for 'ague' - you should keep up with your Shakespeare and 'Twelfth Night' (season appropriate) featuring the pale and blond Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
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Old 12-19-2019, 02:32 PM   #10
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Worcester*


*Residents of Pennsylvania are excused this one.
We have a Worcester Township in Pennsylvania, and it's pronounced incorrectly. But in Worcester, Massachusetts, it's pronounced properly.
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Old 12-19-2019, 04:03 PM   #11
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We have a Worcester Township in Pennsylvania, and it's pronounced incorrectly. But in Worcester, Massachusetts, it's pronounced properly.
My mistake. I was relying on memory (not a good idea) and got things arse about face.
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Old 12-19-2019, 04:29 PM   #12
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Ah, you know, I only mentioned it because I'm always annoyed that the people of Worcester Township are somehow saying it wrong.

It makes them sound like county bumpkins, and they live in $5,000,000 homes.
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Old 12-19-2019, 06:32 PM   #13
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Horse and worse got me after saying horse then worse about made my bottom plate fall out.

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Old 12-20-2019, 01:00 AM   #14
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Ah, you know, I only mentioned it because I'm always annoyed that the people of Worcester Township are somehow saying it wrong.

It makes them sound like county bumpkins, and they live in $5,000,000 homes.
When you live in a half million dollar home you're entitled to say it any way you want. Just ask them.
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Old 12-20-2019, 08:32 AM   #15
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I'm told that Looga-Barooga, sorry Loughborough, is the one visitors from across the Atlantic struggle with most.
(K and an E and a T and a T, E and an R and an I-N-G...)
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