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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 12, 2017 17:01:23 GMT
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Post by mllemass on Jun 12, 2017 17:12:46 GMT
Ha! He says he's often accused of wearing the same thing again and again. I can't imagine why! I'll bet he still owns those "grunge" outfits that he talks about.
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Post by roverpup on Jun 12, 2017 17:49:45 GMT
I am not one to care about cars (to me they are just four wheels to make getting some place faster than walking and a place to put your groceries if you buy things in bulk), but I could watch that video a hundred times and not tire of BC saying "beautiful, luxurious". The way he says those words are... beautiful and luxurious!
And Mllemass, absolutely I detect a tone of self-deprecating humour in his comment of being accused of wearing the same clothes over and over again! He certainly does like to hang on to things! He reminds me of my hubby - he still has a beach towel that he had when he was 6 years old. It looks like an ancient battle flag of Napoleon's troops but I am still amazed that after 59 years there is anything left of it at all!
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Post by queenzod on Jun 13, 2017 0:46:45 GMT
Btw, how do you pronounce "plaid?" I've never heard it pronounced the way BC did.
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Post by roverpup on Jun 13, 2017 2:28:12 GMT
I pronounce it so it rhymes with mad but I know enough Brits who pronounce words that I end up scratching my head about (like controversy - they give the letters "ov" a "aw" sound) so when BC said "plaid" so it rhymed with "maid" I just shrugged and thought "that's just the way it is said in the UK". In Canada we (at least I do) have an odd mixture of Brit and American pronunciation. I say "schedule" the way BC does (like it is "shed") but aluminum the way the Americans do (A-lum-in-um not Al-u-min-ium) and "saw" the way the Americans do (not like the Brits with "sore"). Spelling - it is British all the way (unless the auto-correct changes it and I don't notice it).
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Post by mllemass on Jun 13, 2017 7:35:55 GMT
Here in Canada, we're taught in school to use the British spellings in most, but not all, cases. But American spellings would also be accepted. So we get a bit of a mixed message! But pronunciations here are American. (Our alphabet has the British zed and not a zee, though!)
I've been watching the BBC quiz show Pointless, and I'm fascinated by the way some words are pronounced. I already knew about aluminum, which is pronounced and spelled "aluminium" in the UK. And I knew they called they call math "maths" (which makes sense, since the full word is the plural "mathematics"). But I was surprised to hear geography being pronounced "jog" rather than "jee-og", so that the word has three syllables instead of four. So they're applying the same pronunciation rule that we use with the word "George" - the e before the o is only there to soften the g (which would otherwise sound like "Gor") - the "e" is not meant to be a separate syllable.
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Post by ellie on Jun 13, 2017 9:00:16 GMT
In the UK Plaid is generally pronounced Plad. Think BC's prononciation must be one of his "pengwing" type idiosyncrasies. 😀
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Post by roverpup on Jun 13, 2017 10:14:47 GMT
I guess it is different with people from my generation. I would say people using American spelling is politely "tolerated", not "accepted". I try to live by the McMaster University style guide www.mcmaster.ca/opr/html/opr/mcmaster_brand/writing_guidelines/style%20guide.pdfbut, as with cleanliness, following all the rules is next to godliness... and as we all know godliness is next to impossible! :-))
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Post by sgev1977 on Jun 13, 2017 20:42:34 GMT
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Post by MagdaFR on Jun 13, 2017 21:38:50 GMT
In the UK Plaid is generally pronounced Plad. Think BC's prononciation must be one of his "pengwing" type idiosyncrasies. 😀 I looked at the Cambridge Dictionary for the pronunciation and it is as you say but there were some people on twitter saying they pronounce it like BC. I thought it was pronounced like "maid" and I don't understand the difference. dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/plaid
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