Posted on 04/14/2014 6:30:39 PM PDT by servo1969
RUSH: I understand, ladies and gentlemen, that my occasional usage of the word "concomitant" and "concomitantly" is irritating Freepers at FreeRepublic.com. "Yes, and if I hear that word and his pronunciation one more time, I will scream!" I guess some prefer "con-com-i-TANT-ly." At any rate, I was watching a show, a BBC show -- a fascinating show, by the way. I hope it's made available in America. It's from the BBC, about Kim Philby. It's a two-parter. I think it's an hour and 45 minutes each, whatever. It's an hour, hour and a half, maybe it's two hours.
So there are two episodes of a historian/documentarian named Ben Macintyre telling the story of Kim Philby. He was a Soviet spy in the UK who got away with it for quite a few years. It's a fascinating story. It occurred informant fifties, sixties, all the way in the eighties. Hhe died sometime in the eighties, but listening to Ben Macintyre narrate this thing, he pronounced some words in ways I have never heard them pronounced. I had to rewind one thing three or four times to hear it, 'cause dovetailed with what the captioning said.
We pronounce the word "controversy." He said it "con-TRO-ve-see," as in the "controversy that Philby found himself in the midst of..." I said, "Wait. What is that?" It's just like in the old NBC days. I'm talking about the David Sarnoff days. When you wanted to try out to be a staff announcer at NBC, they gave you a pronunciation test, and if they gave you the word c-o-n-s-u-m-m-a-t-e, most people pronounce that "consummate." Ah, ah, ah! If you were taking the old NBC staff announcer test, if you didn't pronounce it "con-SUM-it," you failed. "Con-SUM-it" was the way it was pronounced then.
"Con-TRO-ve-see " is the way the Brits, apparently some of them, pronounce "controversy." There's "ad-VERT-tis-ment," and "advert" is the British word for commercial or spot. The British say everything wrong, but now people are all over me for "concomitantly" and the way I'm pronouncing it. They want "con-com-i-TANT-ly." That's the way some people want me to pronounce it. Screw all of you! You know what the word is. The thing is, when I started using it, everybody here thought I had made up a word. You Freepers at least know it's a word. (laughing) Now the staff's saying, "Gee, thanks, for making us look like idiots."
I'm just joking here, but the Freepers are really upset here, apparently, by the way I'm pronouncing it.
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RUSH: If you can, go back, find an old dictionary, and look up the original pronunciation the word "espionage." It used to be "es-PI-on-age." Henry Cabot Lodge even once pronounced it that way, "es-PI-on-age," to go along with "con-com-i-TANT." Is that better, folks? "con-com-i-TANT-ly"?
Well, with the new kind of queens, I could understand.
LOL! I am the complainee and I am NOT a twittering twat!
that is so funny...
in good humor,
kg/nancy
Right.
As a grammar cop, can I just say? I heard Rush say this today, and I thought it was rather charming.
Rush does this occasionally, libary instead library, srool instead of school. Haven’t heard him mention FR in a long time.
He (Rush) kids because he cares.
con COM i tant ly
Rush has been lurking here for a long, long time.
I actually heard him use the FReeperism “barf alert” on his show once years ago.
Spanners are wrenches.
I heard it too today, Stanne. I thought he was having some light hearted fun and showed a great deal of affection for Freepers. I’m one for archaic pronunciations, so why should I care how he pronounces concomiTANTly?
Is that pernounced "moahhh" or "moeyy"
There is a fish called a "Koi"....is it pernounced "koahhh" or ""koeyy"......
There was also a hockey player named Patrick Roy........but it was pernounced "Waaaaa".....which was understandable since he was a big crybaby.....
Now I'm getting confuseder......
Think French!
Thanks for the ping!
LOL...
**Why was there a FReeper FReakout and moi was not invited?**
...There was a group back in the 1990s -- and they still exist. There was a group in the 1990s that were malcontents, renegades, and off the mainstream plantation of conservatism as articulated by the party. Those were the people that were the early participants in the website Free Republic. They were known as Freepers. - Rush Limbaugh, July 3, 2013
Tut-tut. What a ludicrous statement.
you are exactly right! Rush, pay attention!
I don’t think it’s accurate to imply that everyone here is all in a tizzy about that. FR is a big place.
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