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Posted Feb 18, 2012 by  ~ jwf ~
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>> pronounce 'penchant' <<
There are a lot of French endings such as in Debut-TAUNT,
Bon-vee-Vaunt, en-FONT, croiss-AUNT, even en-CHAUNT-ay,
that may cause some to always accent the end bit, but as
a life-long radio presenter I'm quite sure it's been totally
Anglicised to PEN-chint, with the same stresses as 'punching'
as in punchin' bag.
~jwf~
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Posted Feb 18, 2012 by pedro
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| | I thought it'd be 'ponshon', but I can't see myself using it in conversation in Glasgow somehow.
I think Canadians say 'ballet' with an emphasis on the second syllable, but don't pronounce the 't' at the end, like we would say 'belay'. Certainly my Canadian cousins do.
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Posted Feb 18, 2012 by ~ jwf ~
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Those dictionary links say 'pon chon' as if it was some
sort of Chinese food.
It's PENCH-unt if you want to be understood in Canada
where we are officially half French and are very (too)
sensitive to Francophonix. (And where btw we pronounce
ballet as bal-ay - the bal rimes with gal - and the ay
rimes with hay).
PON-CHON
How foppish is that! Even our French wouldn't say that.
~jwf~
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Posted Feb 18, 2012 by ~ jwf ~
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And just to prove that I am open-minded and always
willing to learn let me say I looked up spouse and
espouse today.
Suddenly, that juvenile expression 'If you like it so
much why dontcha marry it?' makes a lot more sense than
those who might use it are generally able to demonstrate.
~jwf~
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Posted Feb 28, 2012 by Edward the Bonobo - Gone.
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| | You wait for a word you've never heard before to come along...and then it comes along twice.
The other day I read a twit from a journalist:
'The problem with interviewing Will Self is deciphering my shorthand. Did he really say 'pother'?'
Then last night on the radio, on an item about coal fires in a Derbyshire village, two separate interviewees talked about the smoke 'pothering' from the chimneys.
I like this word. It has connotations of the smoke being buffeted.
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Posted Feb 29, 2012 by ~ jwf ~
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>>..the smoke 'pothering' from the chimneys. <<
In looking up pother and then bother I was surprised that
no one made a connection between the two. The concensus is
that bother comes from 'both the' or perhaps bodder while
pother, though ancient, is 'of unknown origin'. Seems to
me one is the rough pronunciation of the other, or both.
A cloud of smoke can certainly be a bit of a bother.
And most of the other definitions are similar in type
or tone suggesting anything from annoyance to
disturbance in 'both' noun and verb variants.
Hmmm...
~jwf~
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