Grammar Nazi

[blunthead]

Okay, this is bugging the 'ell out of me...

If I remember correctly, the word "homage" was pronounced with the h back when I was growing up, sounding like hommage. Then it morphed into "ommage," without the h. Sometimes, it's pronounced very Frenchly, omaggggge. That's fine - whatever.

But this past weekend, I twice overheard people saying they were "umbled" by something. WHAT? Have cockneys invaded the deep south? Since this was an event for my husband's company, I couldn't show my drawers by saying, "What exactly the frick are you talking about? Are they now charging people to pronounce the H??"

Has anybody else here heard this?

Yes, I've heard it but only from one person.

 

[blunthead]

...How about resolving the vitally important debate between "interesting" being pronounced "in-ter-es-ting" or "in-tres-ting"?[/QUOTE]In From Russia with Love Bond (Connery) is shown a briefcase which has a trick mechanism; the latches require being swiveled before being unlatched or a bomb goes off. The person explaining the mechanism says something like, "Turn the latches sideways, then open ordinarily." Bond takes the case to practice and repeats what he was told, saying, "Turn the latches sideways, then open ordnerlary." He doesn't make a mistake, he says "ordinarily", which has five syllables, in the regional four-syllable way it is wherever he learned to speak.

 

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[hossenpepper]

 

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[AnnaMarie]

I was just coming to post that video.

 

[hossenpepper]

Ya gotta love Weird Al...

 

[notebookgirl]

 

[Bev Vincent]

 

[Shoe]

Good work Bev! You beat me to it! I just searched out this thread to post this exact video. Weird Al Rules!!

 

[Christine62]

this is awesome!

 

[Christine62]

this is awesome!

oh I see now that it's been posted already. Well, great minds think a like!

 

[Moderator]

oh I see now that it's been posted already. Well, great minds think a like!

Apparently a lot of great minds...that makes the third time it's been posted and others who were going to.

 

[cat in a bag]

I was going to post it yesterday too, and then saw Hoss beat me to it.

 

[Shoe]

Yup looks like props go to Hoss! Sorry Bev, but the time stamp shows he beat us all out. Glad to see there are plenty of Weird Al Aficionados amongst us here on the boards.