opportYOUnity

[Scot LaFaive]

>I'm beginning to *thing* the "awe-droppers" have some kind of speech
impediment to mispronounce Santa Claus.

Much like the language impairment involved in the dropping of [ng] for [k]
by some writers.

Scot



On 12/23/08, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> A Bank of America commercial puts "you" in "opportYOUnity".  Interesting.
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> Also, I heard today somewhere on TV - Santa Clahz (~klaaz).  Yes, is there
> no respect by these infernal "awe-droppers".  Unfortunately m-w.com is
> infected.  The word "Claus" should be spoken the same as claws.  But in
> m-w.com "claws" ~klauz spoken clahs ~klaaz even though the phonetics show
> an o with a dot over it (~au in truespel) which should be ~Klauz.
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> I'm beginning to thing the "awe-droppers" have some kind of speech
> impediment to mispronounce Santa Claus.
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> Tom Zurinskas, USA - CT20, TN3, NJ33, FL5+
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