opportYOUnity

[Benjamin Barrett]

But the *correct* pronunciation of Claus and claws is indeed the same:
klahz; just ask anyone in my family. Those who would clutter the
English language by adding superfluous vowels are truly demonic
because doing so will lead to children being completely unable to
figure out how to read. BB

On Dec 23, 2008, at 7:19 PM, Scot LaFaive wrote:

>
>> 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:
>>
>> A Bank of America commercial puts "you" in "opportYOUnity".
>> Interesting.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I'm beginning to thing the "awe-droppers" have some kind of speech
>> impediment to mispronounce Santa Claus.

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