David Niederauer 
Los Gatos, CA
VinoCellar.com Extraordinaire
Posts: 30967
 | | 04-08-2006 03:02 AM |
| We are related by divorce.
There's a guy that lived the way he acted (so to speak). A good example of what not to do. | | | |
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KillerB
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1533
| | 04-11-2006 06:50 PM |
| Who's talking entomology when KillerBee is in the house?
Think of Jeeves and Worcester and you will be fine.
So, let try those nasty English county towns again shall we:
Worcester
Gloucester
Leicester
Not to mention the race course at Towcester.
What would Mr Cholmondley-Warner say?
BTW does anybody watch Dalziel and Pascoe? | | | |
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David Walker
Barrel Sampler
Posts: 2284
| | 04-11-2006 08:08 PM |
| Since I've lived in New England for the past few years, I now realize that the correct pronunciation of those are:
wuh -stah
gloss - stah
lick-stah (although, I'm not entirely sure we have one of those here) | | | |
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WineJedi
Grape Sorter
Posts: 351
| | 04-12-2006 01:53 AM |
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Since I've lived in New England for the past few years, I now realize that the correct pronunciation of those are:
wuh -stah
gloss - stah
lick-stah (although, I'm not entirely sure we have one of those here)
is there any place on earth that butchers the english language worse than in new england?  | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
VinoCellar.com Extraordinaire
Posts: 30967
| | 04-12-2006 03:51 AM |
| What do you call a person who shots novicane in one's mouth to make it numb?
Is is a "number"? And how do you pronounce that? | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts: 13801
| | 04-12-2006 02:05 PM |
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Who knows the entimology of "cocktail"?
Since the etiology of this thread is picky spelling mistakes, I feel obliged to point out that "entimology" looks more like a misspelling of "entomology" (the study of insects) than it does of "etymology" (the study of word origins).
Ime nott mutsh off eh speler thow, soe ahs TJ wuld sahy: "I like whine!"
LOL!
Now, try this one on for size --
Jaehnigen (americanized version of Jähnigen) -- how do you pronounce it in the Americanized/Englishized way and how about the original German pronounciation?  | | | www.roguefood.com -- www.cellartracker.com | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts: 13801
| | 04-12-2006 02:07 PM |
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Who knows the entimology of "cocktail"?
According to the wikipedia....
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Etymology
There are several plausible theories as to the origin of the term "cocktail". Among them are:
* Colonial taverns kept their spirits (rum, brandy, whiskey, gin, applejack) in casks, and as the liquid in the casks lowered, the spirits would tend to lose both flavor and potency, so the tavern keeper would have an additional cask into which the tailings from the low casks could be combined and sold at a reduced price, the patrons requesting the "cock tailings" or the tailings from the stop cock of the cask. This was H.L. Mencken's belief.
* Cocktails were originally a morning beverage, and the cocktail was the name given as metaphor for the rooster (cocktail) heralding morning light of day, i.e. hair of the dog. This was first posited in 2004 by Ted Haigh in "Vintage Spirits & Forgotten Cocktails".
* Some say that it was customary to put a feather, presumably from a cock's tail, in the drink to serve both as decoration and to signal to teetotalers that the drink contained alcohol.
* Another etymology is that the term is derived from coquetier, a French egg-cup which was used to serve the beverage in New Orleans in the early 19th century.[1]
* The beverage was named for a mixed breed horse, known as a "cock-tail" as the beverage, like the horse, was neither strictly spirit nor wine - it was a mixed breed.
* The word could also be a distortion of Latin [aqua] decocta, meaning "distilled water".
* Some self-proclaimed cultural historians believe the term "cocktail" to be a reference to gender roles. The combination of the two gender-refering slang terms "cock" (refering to a confident man) and "tail" (refering to a woman worth chasing)titles a category of drinks: cocktail. These drinks are often consumed at evening events(Cocktail Hour) where men and women "meet and mingle."
* The Mandarin name for cocktail is Jee Wooui Geuui. Jee means rooster/chicken/cock Wooui means tail and Geuui means liquor.
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Budman
Philly Suburbs
VinoCellar.com Extraordinaire
Posts: 23750
| | 04-12-2006 02:15 PM |
| How about....
American... Jay-nih-gen.
German... Zher-nee-gen. | | | |
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TBird
Park Slope, Brooklyn
Master of Wine
Posts: 10205
| | 04-12-2006 02:39 PM |
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What do you call a person who shots novicane in one's mouth to make it numb?
Is is a "number"? And how do you pronounce that?
dentist.  | | | |
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Pool Boy
Laurl, MD (DC suburb)
Master of Wine
Posts: 13801
| | 04-12-2006 02:45 PM |
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How about....
American... Jay-nih-gen.
German... Zher-nee-gen.
American...very good! I usually tell people who have trouble with it to say 'Jane-again' | | | www.roguefood.com -- www.cellartracker.com | |
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KillerB
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1533
| | 04-25-2006 08:17 PM |
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Since I've lived in New England for the past few years, I now realize that the correct pronunciation of those are:
wuh -stah
gloss - stah
lick-stah (although, I'm not entirely sure we have one of those here)
More like Wuss-ter, Gloss-ter and very definitely Less-ter.
Now try Warwick and try not to think of Dionne. | | | |
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David Walker
Barrel Sampler
Posts: 2284
| | 04-26-2006 01:05 PM |
| Apparently you've never been to Boston. | | | |
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Rob Conrad
Sunnyvale, CA
Grape Stomper
Posts: 130
| | 04-26-2006 06:51 PM |
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Now try Warwick and try not to think of Dionne.
Wicked Pissah!
If you're from Wormtown, you call that place Whaw-hck. Sort of a syllable and a half. Is that close enough?
My favorite is Clinton. prn. clhn-tnh. No accented syllable, not a vowel in there. | | | Regards,<br>Rob | |
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KillerB
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1533
| | 04-28-2006 09:23 AM |
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Apparently you've never been to Boston.
Err hum... I have been to Boston. The real Boston - in Lincolnshire. | | | |
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AlexRed
Northern VA
Wine Thief
Posts: 2674
| | 04-28-2006 06:45 PM |
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Apparently you've never been to Boston.
Err hum... I have been to Boston. The real Boston - in Lincolnshire.
Yours may be the "real "one, but there are 10x as many people in ours.
and in our Bah-ston it is indeed called wuh -stah, and they pahk their cahs in the yahd.  | | | |
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KillerB
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1533
| | 04-29-2006 12:43 AM |
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Apparently you've never been to Boston.
Err hum... I have been to Boston. The real Boston - in Lincolnshire.
Yours may be the "real "one, but there are 10x as many people in ours.
and in our Bah-ston it is indeed called wuh -stah, and they pahk their cahs in the yahd.
Only 10x? I overestimated its size. Just checked, you are correct, really only 589K? I somehow thought that it was well over a million. | | | |
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David Walker
Barrel Sampler
Posts: 2284
| | 04-29-2006 01:41 AM |
| Boston proper is actually geographically very small. In the Boston metropolitan area, population is well over 1 Mil. | | | |
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David Niederauer
Los Gatos, CA
VinoCellar.com Extraordinaire
Posts: 30967
| | 04-29-2006 07:17 PM |
| Why would one want to live in Boston. Afterall they have those terrible public schools and crazy lawyers all over the place.
Actually if I could have that Star Trek chick as a teacher it might be pretty good.
Denny Crane! | | | |
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KillerB
Barrel Racker
Posts: 1533
| | 05-01-2006 06:20 PM |
| Oh yes - Worrick | | | |
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