On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 01:38:06AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 04:18:33PM -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote:
Canadian (7th generation, North Atlantic [St. Mary's, West Irish, Highland Scott] descent) southern Ontario dialect follows. > > daemon = demon, day-mon, or ? [Dee-mon - The Concise OED has it as a > variant of demon. Pandaemonium is strictly pan-day-monium but I don't > know many people who don't elide it as pan-demo-knee-um (and therefore > missspell it as pandemonium)] > When you say "have a nice day", do you pronounce the 'y' at all? Is it Daaaa, or Daaaai? Dipthongs are there for a reason; they differentiate words when spoken verbally (try listening to someone from New York speak, no dipthongs). I say Daaaimon. > > > irc = i-r-c, irk, or ? [Eye - Arse - Sea with the last two run > together] Interesting imagery :) Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
