"Tiassa" and other names needing pornounciation guides. . .

Dywyddyr said:
Dywyddyr:
being a Welsh(-ish) word it's not as as easy as DEE-wih-DEAR.

The y is pronounced as an i, the w as u (oo), d is fricative (closer to t) and dd is th.
So it's tioo (like Tiw the Norse god - Tuesday, not quite chew) ith ir.

Tiu-ith-ir.

Keep practising. :p
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Wait, you're saying Dywyddyr is a real word?:eek:

I figured you'd just typed a bunch of random letters as your user name. I've been mentally pronouncing it as just "D" and ignoring the apparently random assortment of letters that follow it.

What does Dywyddyr mean?
 
madanthonywayne said:
Wait, you're saying Dywyddyr is a real word?:eek:
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Well it's sort of a real word.
I started writing a novel for which I needed a "different" character's name and I'd just finished reading The Mabinogion (as a result of which I also bought a read a couple of Teach Yourself Welsh-type books).
I couldn't swear to it being a genuine word but it's not exactly a random jumble either. (And Dyw is Welsh for "god" - something I discovered later).
 
Pasta?

A question for String: Was that other member, by chance, Canadian? Apparently the "pasta" bit is true. I had always thought it something of a joke.
 
Tiassa said:
A question for String: Was that other member, by chance, Canadian? Apparently the "pasta" bit is true. I had always thought it something of a joke.
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Ahhh. You mean "Canadian", as in: a person from Canada, not "Canadian", as in the super-secret code word for "black person" in the restaurant business.
Oh, shit! That bitch hostess just sat me a table of five Canadians. Guess I won't be making a tip.**​
Jokes aside. No. A friend from high school comes here to read (she refuses to post) the various interesting conversations. When chatting, she mentioned a post of yours in the EM&J subforum and said, "Tee-YAH-zah".

To be fair, have you ever heard someone from Northern Ohio speak? We're awfully nasally. "CLEEEEEVE-lind" with just a dash of Fran Drescher.

~String

**What? Black people, Canadians, Europeans and lesbians are horrible tippers. I worked in restaurants in the Midwest, Florida, NYC and Phoenix. It's pretty much universal.
 
Warshington

Superstring01 said:

To be fair, have you ever heard someone from Northern Ohio speak? We're awfully nasally. "CLEEEEEVE-lind" with just a dash of Fran Drescher.
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My maternal grandmother used to say, "Warshington". I have no idea where that accent came from.

And, yes, I did mean folks from the northland; I heard the word a couple times while in Calgary, and tried my hardest to not laugh. Puts "tomayto, tomahto" in a whole new light for me.
 
Tiassa said:
My maternal grandmother used to say, "Warshington". I have no idea where that accent came from.

And, yes, I did mean folks from the northland; I heard the word a couple times while in Calgary, and tried my hardest to not laugh. Puts "tomayto, tomahto" in a whole new light for me.
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My favorite DIY show on HGTV is a programme from Canada (note my PC addition of the extra "me" to make it extra-Canadian) called "Sarah's House". I don't know what does it for me. Maybe it's her chipper personality, her trusty gay sidekick (and BOY is he gayyyyy) or her wonderful Canadian accent. Whatever it is, the show rocks.

I listen for the things she says differently. I don't know why we USAmericans are so entertained by the Canadian accent. We aren't equally entertained by listening to a Kiwi, Brit or Scot yapper on and on. Sure, we take note when there's an interesting accent, but the Canadian accent just gives us a hearty guffaw.

Part of my interest comes from my understanding that there is a current "fashion" in Canada of intentionally gravitating towards pronunciations which differ from their neighbors to the south. My room mate (for a spell) in Spain was from Prince Rupert, BC. She and her friends (who came to visit) prattled on and on about how proud they were to be Canadian (as if, somehow I expected them to act American), how they didn't care one bit about the USA (which seemed a little stupid. . . not that I never asked about it, having learned to be as unobtrusive as possible while living in the most Anti-American/socialist/pacifist province of the entire kingdom) and how they intentionally said certain words with "Canadian accents" to differentiate themselves from Americans.

. . . which was all well and good. Why not be more Canadian and less American. Different countries, so why not?

But when I hear Sarah Richardson talk, she's so eloquent and fluid and then. . . BAM! She says "abewt" (not the much rumored "aboot") and I just crack up. Even her assistant makes fun of her, which just makes me laugh even more.

~String
 
I've been called on "abewt" or similar previously; then again, all my previous Supreme Leaders have implicitly understood the proper pronunciation of "nuclear".

"Warshington" I've never heard of: a Westerner thing, I must assume. But any bus driver of any standing in Ontario does use the phrase "youze guys" at least a couple times in their career.

The other I've come across is "CAPillaries" versus "caPILLaries", but I can't be bothered if the lot of you are saying it wrong.

Boston accents are curious beasts; not untoward, but definitely worth a curious, half-believing smile. New York whiny nasal patterns make me see red, however; is it possible that any adult human being could sound so whiny? And Nu Joisey, of course. Stop it, stop it, stop it.
 
Back to pronunciation: a guide to gutturals being preached here.

I've always pronounced Geoff as it was meant. The first letter - G - comes out a twist between the hard 'G' of 'Gigantic' and the tiniest declension of 'Giraffe'; the ending of the pronunciation of the letter should evoke the harder 'G' of 'Guttersnipe'. The E and O sound are joint, of course - the O being ignored, as it speaks to the baser parts of humanity. It is, in effect, beneath the name itself, and so we do not look there. As for the 'F', I usually insist that the speaker draw in a great breath for a gusty rising 'F' of great attention, like the bark of a mighty bull or seal or bull seal.

The second 'F', as will be obvious to the most banal observer, is utterly silent. Only the societally turgid draws out that cumbersome, not-to-be-wanted 'F'. It stands for whatever the Fuck you like, of course.
 
GeoffP said:
Ah, sweet. I shall respond to you in the greeting of your people: Nein, ich habe keinen Juden darein! Und Gesundheit.
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My people, eh?

Hence the reasoning behind why you always will be 'the gormless arsewipe' to me.:)
 
Rather, hence my disinterest in much of what you have to say. But I do thank you for dropping in to attack me for no reason at all. :D It means you still care. Aww.

Now if only I did. :shrug:
 
GeoffP said:
But I do thank you for dropping in to attack me for no reason at all.
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Considering that I had been taking part in this thread and after you dropped by, responded to you and asked you if you were from Wales, upon which you then went on to refer to me as the "dwarf-tosser" and then made some reference about "my people" with Nazi references.. To a woman with African ancestry. You're the gift that just keeps on giving, aren't you?

GeoffP said:
Now if only I did. :shrug:
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When I don't respond for several minutes because, well, I have a life..


GeoffP said:
Crying in the marmite. Ah well.
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/Pat..
 
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