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WCDT Strips 3311 - 3315 (Sept 19th - 24th)
Method of Madness:
I heard it said aloud long before I saw it in writing, so my surprise was at the spelling, not the pronunciation. Faye should love sarsaparilla. She certainly loves sass!
Sullivan:
--- Quote from: Endellion on 22 Sep 2016, 10:52 ---Is it just me or does Hanners look extra super duper cute and adorable in this strip?
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It's not just you.
Tova:
--- Quote from: Storel on 22 Sep 2016, 14:51 ---Yes, sarsaparilla is a real soft drink. According to my mother, it's correctly pronounced "SASS-pa-rilla". (She was a Phi Beta Kappa English major at UC Berkeley, so she was usually pretty trustworthy about pronunciation, but she may have been drawing on her Oklahoma upbringing for that one.)
However you pronounce it, sarsaparilla is part of a family of soft drinks that also includes root beer, birch beer, and cream soda, all of which I think are fairly unknown outside the U.S. Root beer is the most popular one.
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I am quite sure that at least sarsaparilla is reasonably well known and available in Australia, and given that, probably in the UK as well. It's a bit old-fashioned, though. Probably better known by the oldies among us.
Here is one popular Australian version.
https://www.bundaberg.com/brew/sarsaparilla/
Root beer I suspect is at least known, although the name in Australia is... well... *cough* let's just say that it is not marketing magic.
You may well be right about birch beer, though. I've not heard of that one.
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 22 Sep 2016, 15:26 ---I heard it said aloud long before I saw it in writing, so my surprise was at the spelling, not the pronunciation. Faye should love sarsaparilla. She certainly loves sass!
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Yes, I had to look at the spelling again to figure out why I should be surprised at the pronunciation.
Edit: In any forum, the answer to a question starting with, "Is it just me ...," is always no.
Edit 2: I forgot to mention that creaming soda in Australia is popular, though I couldn't say whether it is the same here as it is anywhere else.
Method of Madness:
"Creaming soda" just sounds wrong.
Tova:
Yeah, well.
Root beer.
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