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chickenfeet ([personal profile] chickenfeet) wrote2006-01-31 01:30 pm
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A question of pronunciation

Inspired by [livejournal.com profile] forthright I thought I'd ask some questions about English pronunciation. How do you pronounce the following:

[Poll #663848]

[identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com 2006-01-31 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I make the same distinction. In my case its 'slew' for bog-like Thingie of Despond , 'sluff' for shedding skin. Mr Chickenfeet claims to pronounce both as 'sluff' but I suspect he doesn't (deliberately) exfoliate and so, never really needed to make the distinction.
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[personal profile] nanila 2006-01-31 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, "slew" for bog, "sluff" for skin" and "slow (to rhyme with thou)" for the city. Perhaps the results of the poll will sway Mr. Chickenfeet's opinion.

Or you could hypnotize him with your baleful glare.

[identity profile] chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com 2006-01-31 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
you could hypnotize him with your baleful glare.

I've been hypnotised, nay verily entranced, by [livejournal.com profile] lemur_catta for ten years
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Aw.

[personal profile] nanila 2006-01-31 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Dear Sir, We regret to inform you that you have contracted a case of True Love. Medical science is not sufficiently advanced to effect a cure. We are afraid you're stuck with it. With Deepest Condolences, The Undersigned.

[identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com 2006-02-01 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
purrrrrrrrr

[identity profile] lemur-catta.livejournal.com 2006-01-31 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
or perhaps I could lie for hours on the floor, inconveniently close to the drawing room door!...then again , the cats would get out...