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Gnabberwocky:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 09 Nov 2020, 13:20 ---'Pair.'
P-ehh-uhrr.
Like air. Or rare.
That said, my Irish friends tend to seem to make that word into two syllables with a y dividing them.
Also there are accents up north where it would be pronounced 'Puhr' or forgive me 'Purr' or I guess almost 'Pür'.
--- End quote ---
Hah, total misunderstanding. That's my bad. I meant "Squirrel."
Thrillho:
:mrgreen:
I KNEW ALL ALONG
*throws fourteen pages of notes out of shot*
Skwih-rull.
Squirrel.
As opposed to squirl.
There's a whole other syllable there! It's one of the more surprising ones for me.
Case:
Obligatory teutonic Eichhörnchen-massacre is obligatory:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FRD4uq1mVw
Obligatory squirrel-venge is obligatory as well, of course :evil:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYuBP8Ig4lY
Morituri:
Once someone visiting our third-grade class told us a story about a squirl named Earl and and a squirrel named Beryl. Who had some kind of argument that they took to the local wise-thing - who was, of course, an owl named Al. Al wrote out his opinion with a pen and hung it on the wall with a pin, and then asked them in to share ten tins of biscuits and tea with their neighbor, Mr. Crock O'dyle, who couldn't quite decide if he was from Scotland or Australia so they had to listen to the way he spoke to figure it out. It turned out he was originally from Africa, but had been raised in Australia, where he'd been adopted by a Mr. Gator - who had the same first name as the local wise-thing but pronounced it slightly differently....
I remember it vividly - even though the rest of third grade is mostly so much mush in my brain - because Beryl was my grandmother's given name. And the audience-participation bit was particularly fun.
cesium133:
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIjbX1gj88
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