Miss Pronouncer
Apr. 26th, 2006 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vesicularFound this fun little link today for people who can't pronounce anything from Wisconsin called Miss Pronouncer. Gives you examples of how to pronounce certain WI words so you don't look like an idiot.
Having lived there most of my life these things come naturally but I can see how people could mispronounce Oconomowoc or Ashwaubenon. Hell, people can't even pronounce Shawano, let alone Potawatomi. What's worse is those who can't even pronounce Wisconsin (there's no "e" in it people).
What's also nice is it's not just larger towns, it also has pronunciations for small towns as well, like Winneconne, and people too. It also has some fun facts on the state. I never knew that "Wisconsin" is the English spelling of a French version of an Indian name for the river that runs through the state. Now days I suppose they'd just use Babblefish.
Having lived there most of my life these things come naturally but I can see how people could mispronounce Oconomowoc or Ashwaubenon. Hell, people can't even pronounce Shawano, let alone Potawatomi. What's worse is those who can't even pronounce Wisconsin (there's no "e" in it people).
What's also nice is it's not just larger towns, it also has pronunciations for small towns as well, like Winneconne, and people too. It also has some fun facts on the state. I never knew that "Wisconsin" is the English spelling of a French version of an Indian name for the river that runs through the state. Now days I suppose they'd just use Babblefish.
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Date: 2006-04-26 06:25 pm (UTC)What was your rank before? I didn't move up or down it seems. BTW, if you didn't hear, Chato left the guild, went with Trog to Burning Season. Blake was giving them crap. Trog already is going after Onyxia. He's progressing way too fast I think. I'm wondering how long they'll take the big guild life. Like Blake and I said, we've both been there, and gave it up because it's just not fun to run the same instance every week for 10 hours for 6 months to get your set. More fun to dick around w/ friends.
Anyway, we did set up a channel called "dopplegang". Just do /join dopplegang and Chato, Dennis and Rob are all on it. Also download a mod called Persistance of Chatiness. That lets you hit the return key to type into chat channels instead of having to hit /1 and the like every time.
Oh, I also got into Hyjal and took some pics. I put them on the guild website.