Matt Crunk
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When I was a small child my grandmother would tell me to, "Put away your play pretties", meaning my toys. They also referred to a comic book as a "funny book".
In fact, when I was a kid almost everyone referee to comic books as funny books.
When I was a small child my grandmother would tell me to, "Put away your play pretties", meaning my toys. They also referred to a comic book as a "funny book".
Are you joshing me?
My grandmother has always used that term, except it sounds more like "play purties" when she says it. She also pronounces Chicago as "Shi-car-go."
Growing up on a farm in rural Mississippi in the 1940's and 50's 'll do that to ya.
Speaking of city names, you never hear the hard-G pronunciation of "Los Ang-less" anymore, a pronunciation required of announcers at station KHJ in the thirties. Their rivals at KFI and KNX pronounced it "Los Anj-less."
My mother-in-law and father-in-law were both born and raised in Italy, and immigrated separately to the U.S. before the age of 20. They eventually settled in the Chicago area, which is where they met, fell in love, and married. They both pronounced it Chi-ca-go, with the "ch" in first syllable pronounced the same as most people pronounce the "ch" in the word "chicken".A lot more accurate than a manifestation often heard in the city itself: Chi-CAA-go. Some of my family butcher it accordingly, although I prefer Chi-caw-go. (Hit the "caw" too hard, and you sound like a kid from Brooklyn exiled here to finish law school.)
I'm fine with either pronunciation, but hearing it pronounced "Los Ang-guh-leeze" is like fingernails on a chalkboard.Speaking of city names, you never hear the hard-G pronunciation of "Los Ang-less" anymore, a pronunciation required of announcers at station KHJ in the thirties. Their rivals at KFI and KNX pronounced it "Los Anj-less."
It might be policy, but I think the local announcers simply operate on the presumption that anyone who lives in San Antonio (to use your example) would know who the Spurs are and which city they're associated with, so there's no need to repeat it every time they say the team's name.With regards to city names & TV announcers...
The local TV announcers refer to them as "the Spurs". But from other parts of the country...the announcers will say "the San Antonio Spurs". Is this a policy?
Speaking of city names, you never hear the hard-G pronunciation of "Los Ang-less" anymore, a pronunciation required of announcers at station KHJ in the thirties. Their rivals at KFI and KNX pronounced it "Los Anj-less."
Speaking of city names, you never hear the hard-G pronunciation of "Los Ang-less" anymore, a pronunciation required of announcers at station KHJ in the thirties. Their rivals at KFI and KNX pronounced it "Los Anj-less."
My mother-in-law and father-in-law were both born and raised in Italy, and immigrated separately to the U.S. before the age of 20. They eventually settled in the Chicago area, which is where they met, fell in love, and married. They both pronounced it Chi-ca-go, with the "ch" in first syllable pronounced the same as most people pronounce the "ch" in the word "chicken".
I've known latinos here in California who drove their Chevy (pronounced with the hard "ch") to shursh (church). lolThats funny, I was born in Chicago but my parents moved back to Ohio after dad was laid off from the airlines when I was under 2 years old and that's how I find myself pronouncing it.