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amother
Red


 

Post Thu, May 13 2021, 8:42 pm
cbsp wrote:
Anyone else with old time Williamsburg folk who pronounced it "Hevesh" street?

What about Hoyt - Schermerhorn St, the stop on the G train LOL
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Amarante




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, May 13 2021, 9:32 pm
amother [ Red ] wrote:
What about Hoyt - Schermerhorn St, the stop on the G train LOL


That was easy for me because my mother was a teacher and the Board of Education is located there so I grew up hearing the word before I saw it written.
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amother
Firebrick


 

Post Thu, May 13 2021, 9:46 pm
cbsp wrote:
Anyone else with old time Williamsburg folk who pronounced it "Hevesh" street?


We still refer to it as that lol.
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Laiya




 
 
    
 

Post Thu, May 13 2021, 10:01 pm
Or Houston St in lower Manhattan
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FranticFrummie




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, May 14 2021, 11:11 am
ptarmigan
fjord
quandary
baccalaureate

And for the love of puppies! February, library, elementary. Use all of the letters please.
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cbsp




 
 
    
 

Post Fri, May 14 2021, 11:27 am
FranticFrummie wrote:
ptarmigan
fjord
quandary
baccalaureate

And for the love of puppies! February, library, elementary. Use all of the letters please.


I know Ptarmigan from "Do You Love Me Mama"

Fjord from the Parrot Sketch

And OMG. DD11 had a spelling test a few weeks ago with February as one of the words. Her homework was to write all the spelling words 3 times for practice. She wrote "Feb." three times. Can't Believe It

And my youngest (when he was 3) wanted to know where all the metchies were at the "mentchie school" when we came for carpool LOL
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amother
Cerise


 

Post Fri, May 14 2021, 11:47 am
cbsp wrote:
I know Ptarmigan from "Do You Love Me Mama"

Fjord from the Parrot Sketch

And OMG. DD11 had a spelling test a few weeks ago with February as one of the words. Her homework was to write all the spelling words 3 times for practice. She wrote "Feb." three times. Can't Believe It

And my youngest (when he was 3) wanted to know where all the metchies were at the "mentchie school" when we came for carpool LOL


Clever DD11!!
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amother
Cerise


 

Post Fri, May 14 2021, 11:49 am
FranticFrummie wrote:
ptarmigan
fjord
quandary
baccalaureate

And for the love of puppies! February, library, elementary. Use all of the letters please.


The first two are pretty intuitive. Obviously a pt is not going to be pronounced as such, which would lead you to believe that the p is silent. An fj is just begging for the j to be pronounced as a y.

Baccalaureate is pronounced as it's spelled. It's harder to spell than pronounce.

Quandary was my 5th grade vocabulary word, so yeah, I know how to pronounce it. Wink

How do people pronounce elementary? Shortening the pronunciation elementry is pretty standard in American pronunciations. It's not a mispronunciation.
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amother
OP


 

Post Fri, Jun 04 2021, 5:25 pm
amother [ OP ] wrote:
Paragon
Wrath
Isthmus
Wocestershire
Onomatopoeia
Mnemonic

Without googling it.


Deity
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