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Thread #140265   Message #3223373
Posted By: Mrrzy
14-Sep-11 - 10:11 PM
Thread Name: BS: ...age pronunciation
Subject: RE: BS: ...age pronunciation
And I ain't even had a garage, you can call home and ask my wife!

(Not to make it a music thread or anything.)

I heard the canNIBBLEism on a BBC programme (see, I can spell in English too) about Japanese stuck on some island in WWII with their POWs and how they used to eat them a limb at a time, sometimes making them run and be hunted. The narrater, good public school voice (comma, best of British), used the term throughout the documentary, and I couldn't take it seriously.

My fave in English is tachypneic, which takes the root tachy (pr. TACKy) and -pneic (PNEE-ic) and gets taKIPnik.