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Help on this clause of concession: Despite her poor memory, the old woman told... | Get to a train to Hampstead vs. get a train to Hampstead
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Sacks of coal or keep your cool Sun Dec 10, 2006 19:34 pm  Sacks of coal or keep your cool		  
Thanks for the joke, Alan!

I'm not sure I get it, though, unless it has something to do with 'keep your cool'!

Or is the play on the word 'sex' -- could it be 'sacks', then? Confused Smile
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Pronounciation of ju(i)ce Sun Dec 10, 2006 23:42 pm  Pronounciation of ju(i)ce		  
Hi all!

First I?like to thank you all for sharing your proficience to me. Second please let me tell you why I asked the initial question: It all begun with Conchita?s topic `Let?s slang? where she mentioned the expression "moo juice". Well, I think I?m right to interpret "moo" as a cow?s noise/voice (in German you would spell it like that "muh"). Now in a conversation I mentioned Conchita?s expression that way "mu djuz". My counterpart in the talk who claimed to be familar with the English couldn?t get the point. After I had explained what moo juice is he said that I had misspronounced "juice" and if I would have said "djuiz" he surely would have been able to figure out that it were slangy for "milk"! Laughing Laughing

By the way, Amy, I wonder how fruit sounds when it rhymes to newt. Is newt a real existing word, at all? I couldn?t find it anywhere.

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Pronounciation of ju(i)ce Mon Dec 11, 2006 0:57 am  Pronounciation of ju(i)ce		  
Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
By the way, Amy, I wonder how fruit sounds when it rhymes to newt. Is newt a real existing word, at all? I couldn?t find it anywhere.

Really? You couldn't find any newts at all? Shocked
Michael, I think you must be pulling my leg! Cool

Newt in dictionaries
Newt Pictures I
Newt Pictures II Laughing

Fruit and newt also rhyme with 'root'. Very Happy

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Pronounciation of ju(i)ce Mon Dec 11, 2006 4:35 am  Pronounciation of ju(i)ce		  
prezbucky wrote:
...and in canada...

about

hehe

"aboot"

I don't know why everyone thinks they say "aboot" up there, or I should say down there (the Canadian border is south of where I live). Canadians don't say "aboot". There's a schwa between the B and the OO, so they really say something like [@b^wt]. (The @ is supposed to be a weaker schwa.)
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IPA Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:14 am  IPA		  
Jamie (K) wrote:
There's a schwa between the B and the OO, so they really say something like [@b^wt]. (The @ is supposed to be a weaker schwa.)

Look at all the gymnastics we have to do because we can't use some of the international phonetic symbols here!

We should get some kind of prize for that!
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IPA Mon Dec 11, 2006 14:37 pm  IPA		  
Conchita wrote:
Jamie (K) wrote:
There's a schwa between the B and the OO, so they really say something like [@b^wt]. (The @ is supposed to be a weaker schwa.)

Look at all the gymnastics we have to do because we can't use some of the international phonetic symbols here!

We should get some kind of prize for that!

I think you can post in other alphabets, but I can't, because the forum software is unfriendly to browsers and operating systems that are not Microsoft. Internet Explorer does not exist for my type of computer, so the forum won't let me post Russian, for example. Forums like this should be set up according to universal web standards, rather than to Microsoft standards, but unfortunately some web developers don't care about that. But at least I can post!
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P... like a newt Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:28 am  P... like a newt		  
Hi Amy!

Hope I pulled your legs too hard. Rolling Eyes

Having had a look on the sites you advised me I feel a bit pissed like a newt/ an eft Wink particularly when I see the avatar on the left of my posts. Hope you can forgive me.

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P... like a newt Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:38 am  P... like a newt		  
Fan of Arabian horses wrote:
... particularly when I see the avatar on the left of my posts.
Yes, a very obvious case of leg-pulling... Mr. Green
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Pronounciation of ju(i)ce Tue Dec 12, 2006 13:24 pm  Pronounciation of ju(i)ce		  
Sorry Amy!

I meant: I hope I haven?t pulled your legs too much, of course! Embarassed

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Pronounciation of ju(i)ce Tue Dec 12, 2006 17:38 pm  Pronounciation of ju(i)ce		  
yes, our beloved schwa.

i haven't picked it up in canadians' renditions of "about" before. I'll listen more closely next time i'm up thar.

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