Heard on The Judges II: "confront" like "consult"

[Wilson Gray]

The HUP way is what I would have predicted. The Harvard-Pilgrim (I
don't know the origin of the name; it uses Harvard Med hospitals for
major procedures, but there's no other particular connection that I
know of; I'm a member of the Tufts HMO, which uses Harvard-Vanguard,
the same unit of Harvard-Pilgrim that I used, when I was once a member
of Harvard-Pilgrim, so that I find absolutely no difference between
the Tufts HMO and the H-P HMO; I didn't have to switch to Tufts Med
facilities; I leave the solution as an exercise for the reader) HMO
docs say things like

schedule a con-SULT with Dr. Trnka WRT an upper-gastric endoscopy

but IMO, the HUP pronunciation, CON-sult, is what they would be using,
if *I* had "command" over them. I find "con-SULT" as a noun *very*
annoying.

-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hm! I think the folks at HUP (Hosp. of the U. of P.) say "CONsult"
> /'kan.s^lt/, referring to a form or authorization, e.g., by your PCC
> (primary care physician) to see a specialist.
>
> Mark Mandel
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> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Twenty-ish, black female speaker:
>>
>> "I wanted to leave. I could tell that it was going to be a _conFRONT_
>> [,k at n 'fr^nt]."
>>
>>
>> In like manner, the human resources at my HMO use "conSULT" [.k at n
>> 's^lt] for "consultation."
>>
>> -Wilson
>>
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