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It's "Yurpian," not "You-rope-EE-an" or whatever.  Yurpian, Bruce.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 09:00:37 PM EST
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... the very same pronunciation of the word.

Theys some that kills syllables, and theys some that gives birth to new syllables that tweren't never there before. You start at the headwaters of the Tennessee River, its one thing, but by the time you reach the Mississippi, its something else altogether.

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 10:30:25 PM EST
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Touché.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 10:41:51 PM EST
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By the time you get to Texas, single vowels turn into diphthongs.  When I was 11 or so my cousin Kent and I visited relatives in Pasadena, Texas, southeast of Houston.  A little girl was sweet on Kent.  She pronounced his name Ke'unt.

As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 09:18:32 PM EST
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I think it's in the nature of Rivers. let me introduce you to my old fluid aquaintance the River Nene now that even has disagreements of the pronunciation of its own name. If you live above a certain Bridge the river is pronounced Nenn and below that it's Neen, although the recent influx of population from outside the area has caused the lower river pronunciation to spread. (but they're still wrong) and that's only on a 60 mile long river.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Oct 13th, 2008 at 10:48:56 AM EST
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