antaydum

[Jonathan Lighter]

That's how the narrator of last night's History Channel epsiode of _America:
The Story of Us_ pronounces "Antietam." Like if you're Tatum O'Neal's niece
or nephew.

My wife reports hearing "archipelago" pronounced by the narrator of a
different documentary as
/ar kI p@ 'la go/.

JL

--
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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