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10-24-2010 , 02:25 PM

#1651

pankwindu

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Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 275

I say bag and all -ag words (brag, tag, flag) with a long a like vague. Same with bagel, just like everyone on Community except Britta.

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10-24-2010 , 02:28 PM

#1652

TheNiggler

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Originally Posted by Fear Itself

how do you people pronounce bag?

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10-24-2010 , 02:50 PM

#1653

atakdog

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Originally Posted by pankwindu

I say bag and all -ag words (brag, tag, flag) with a long a like vague. Same with bagel, just like everyone on Community except Britta.

If you're serious... where are you from? I've never heard that, and I've been a lot of places.

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10-24-2010 , 03:23 PM

#1654

Fear Itself

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Originally Posted by pankwindu

I say bag and all -ag words (brag, tag, flag) with a long a like vague. Same with bagel, just like everyone on Community except Britta.

i say it like this too.

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If you're serious... where are you from? I've never heard that, and I've been a lot of places.

Ontario.

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10-24-2010 , 05:05 PM

#1655

SoloAJ

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You played tayg and flayg football as a kid? Weird.

Prague = Prayg? really?

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10-24-2010 , 05:31 PM

#1656

pankwindu

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Originally Posted by atakdog

If you're serious... where are you from? I've never heard that, and I've been a lot of places.

Upper midwest. The quiz in this thread scored me as neutral accent. I say bag almost like bait, and not like bat. Same with flag, it's a long a, different from flat. Also if I play the sounds for bag and bat at m-w.com they sound different to my ears; bag sounds more like long a to me. (Not that m-w.com is necessarily definitive, of course. Or my ears, for that matter.)

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10-24-2010 , 06:57 PM

#1657

Fear Itself

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Originally Posted by SoloAJ

You played tayg and flayg football as a kid? Weird.

Prague = Prayg? really?

how do you pronounce tag and flag? tog and flog?

and im not sure ive ever had the chance to say prague. i would probably say prawg.

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10-25-2010 , 12:10 AM

#1658

sorrow

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Stephen Fry on Language nittery:

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10-25-2010 , 12:28 AM

#1659

Tony_P

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10-25-2010 , 12:43 AM

#1660

mikech

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Originally Posted by Fear Itself

how do you pronounce tag and flag? tog and flog?

and im not sure ive ever had the chance to say prague. i would probably say prawg.

prahg.

how do you pronounce agriculture? do you say eh-griculture?

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10-25-2010 , 12:45 AM

#1661

Fear Itself

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Originally Posted by mikech

prahg.

how do you pronounce agriculture? do you say eh-griculture?

yes

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10-25-2010 , 02:07 AM

#1662

Clayton

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Originally Posted by sorrow

Stephen Fry on Language nittery:

beat me to it argh

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10-25-2010 , 02:16 AM

#1663

William Murderface

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How did I never see this thread, on this or any of my many other accounts?

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10-25-2010 , 08:20 AM

#1664

SoloAJ

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Originally Posted by Fear Itself

how do you pronounce tag and flag? tog and flog?

and im not sure ive ever had the chance to say prague. i would probably say prawg.

With a short a. I would offer other words that are pronounced similarly, but you probably pronounce those all different, too.

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prahg.

how do you pronounce agriculture? do you say eh-griculture?

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Originally Posted by Fear Itself

yes

Whaaaaa? Mind blowing.

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10-30-2010 , 04:29 PM

#1665

yellowjack

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I love this thread.

I can't stand the overuse of ellipses by nearly everyone in the world. They are used online to show that a phrase is trailing off or for silence, and that's fine. When people take perfectly good sentences that don't require an ellipsis and add them out of habit, a kitten dies.

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10-31-2010 , 05:00 AM

#1666

Vecernicek

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As a Giants fan, a lot of things sucked about the game last night. This provided its own special brand of irritation, though:

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10-31-2010 , 07:24 AM

#1667

loK2thabrain

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Cool story, bro....

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11-02-2010 , 12:59 PM

#1668

ddubois

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"The Hawaii Bankers Association recently provided a timely alert, warning all Hawaii banking customers of a telephone scam. The scam calls or texts individuals and fraudulently advises that their bank account is being deactivated; then the computerized message asks for your account information."

I really feel like timely is the wrong word to use here, but I'm having trouble in my head clarifying why.

time·ly (tml)
adj. time·li·er, time·li·est
1. Occurring at a suitable or opportune time; well-timed.
2. Archaic Coming too early; premature.

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11-02-2010 , 05:22 PM

#1669

baumer

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I think it depends on how many people got duped by the scam before they spread the word.

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11-02-2010 , 07:13 PM

#1670

stevemckenna

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For some reason I hate it when people pronounce rhetoric "red-or-ic" instead of "re-tor-ic." Yes I understand the former sounds much fancier but it loses all consistency when forced to pronounce the word "rhetorical."

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11-02-2010 , 07:19 PM

#1671

snowden

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wat

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11-02-2010 , 07:23 PM

#1672

atakdog

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rhet·o·ric /ˈrɛt

ər

ɪk/

[Hint: that means the emphasis is on the first syllable.]

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11-02-2010 , 07:37 PM

#1673

stevemckenna

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Originally Posted by atakdog

rhet·o·ric /ˈrɛt

ər

ɪk/

[Hint: that means the emphasis is on the first syllable.]

rhe·tor·i·cal (rĭ-tôr'ĭ-kəl, -tŏr'-)

I see your point but I just don't understand the deemphasis of the "tee" sound in "red-or-ic" when in rhetorical, the "tee" sound is emphasized.

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11-02-2010 , 07:43 PM

#1674

snowden

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this is a very common phenomenon in english.

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11-02-2010 , 07:45 PM

#1675

atakdog

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Originally Posted by stevemckenna

rhe·tor·i·cal (rĭ-tôr'ĭ-kəl, -tŏr'-)

I see your point but I just don't understand the deemphasis of the "tee" sound in "red-or-ic" when in rhetorical, the "tee" sound is emphasized.

nonsense —> nonsensical

(as an example)

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