Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
Nanohedron wrote:Looks like you probably can't be named 4real in New Zealand.
I wonder if they spelled it "foureal" or "foreal" or "forreal" or "fourreal" if they would let it go through? What I read (no, I didn't click on your link because I'm only on my break at work) said it was the numeral 4 they were objecting to.
That was exactly the issue. It's up in the air, yet, apparently.
Living adjacent to the Eastern Shoshone/Arapahoe reservation, my wife and I occasionally come across kids with the letter 3 in their name. Yes, it's a letter in Arapahoe. Makes a "th" sound. Gave me a severe case of "What the heck!?" the first time I saw it.
My surname is Cadger, a word which in the UK is most commonly used as a synonym for scrounging b*stard.
It is remarkable how people go out of their way to avoid pronouncing it in the obviously correct way. It seems they are afraid that I will take my own name as an insult and kick their arses...
And whether the blood be highland, lowland or no.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
djm wrote: Whats the difference between Cadger and Kadger? I'm not familiar with the reference you made (you wouldn't get it here).
djm
Sorry, "Cadger" pronounced Kajer. hard 'c', short 'a', 'dj' sounds j
In the alternatives I listed I use K to represent that hard 'c'. All 'g' are hard. I have used 'j' where a soft 'g' would occur.
Therefore, phonetically, Cadger is pron. "Kajer" (with a short 'a' as in "cat"), whereas the spelling "Kadger" was an attempt to convey it being pronounced with the 'd' sounded followed by a hard 'g'.
My fault. Shouldn't have bothered. A complete waste of everyone's time and my energy.
As you were.
And whether the blood be highland, lowland or no.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
Tell us something.: "Tell us something" hits me a bit like someone asking me to tell a joke. I can always think of a hundred of them until someone asks me for one. You know how it is. Right now, I can't think of "something" to tell you. But I have to use at least 100 characters to inform you of that.
djm wrote: Whats the difference between Cadger and Kadger? I'm not familiar with the reference you made (you wouldn't get it here).
djm
Well, I use the word, myself, but usually as "cadging". Admittedly it doesn't get much general use at all otherwise hereabouts.
I'm usually polite enuf and would ask the pronunciation FIRST rather than - clutching at my ego - hazard a needless embarrassment upon the both of us; but on certain days I MIGHT look at the name, look up, look back at the name, and blandly say something like, "Cadger. No kidding."
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
TOM?!?
Whats the difference between Cadger and Kadger? I'm not familiar with the reference you made (you wouldn't get it here).
