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Thread #132089   Message #2985157
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
12-Sep-10 - 02:01 PM
Thread Name: BS: Foreign pronunciations: inconsistencies
Subject: RE: BS: Foreign pronunciations: inconsistencies
Longfellow was a Brahmin of Boston society, he would never have put an 'er' ending on his Hiawatha.
Longerie and longeray commonly heard.
'Wipers', Mar-sail-ees, etc. occasionally heard as put-downs to F---s on the part of the politically incorrect.

Which reminds me of the British situation comedy with the couple- lower class store owners who made a bit of money and travel in Europe in their Jaguar or on 'Frogair'. It was a classic, but doesn't seem to have been released on DVD in this PC day and age.
Pity.