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To: dangus
How about Pock-ee-ston?

Or the reporters who always sound like they came from south of the border when they have to pronounce Nicaragua?

How the hell did the 7th planet become "urineness?"

Because they got tired of all the jokes about your-anus.

5 posted on 03/15/2012 6:32:53 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: KarlInOhio

The rule is that if the inhabitants of a given place are non-White, you have to pronounce the city with the accent of those inhabitants. Even when the name is an exonym. It’s just that the minds at NPR would explode to discover that places like Argentina, Chile, etc., are predominant white.


7 posted on 03/15/2012 6:45:01 AM PDT by dangus
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To: KarlInOhio
Oops. I left out the joke about Uranus's name being changed on Futurama.

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/a6o404/futurama-smelloscope at 0:37.

11 posted on 03/15/2012 6:51:02 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (You only have three billion heartbeats in a lifetime.How many does the government claim as its own?)
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To: KarlInOhio
Every time I hear the Kenyan say it that way I think of this idiot...
14 posted on 03/15/2012 6:55:00 AM PDT by stevecmd
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To: KarlInOhio
Or the reporters who always sound like they came from south of the border when they have to pronounce Nicaragua?

The worst of the bunch (and therefore the most irritating) is Maria Hinojosa. Which, of course is pronounced "Mar-r-ria Heeneehooosah".

31 posted on 03/15/2012 7:54:02 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Liberty is in danger. We are the generation. This is our role. Now is the time. Defend Freedom!)
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