Bimbo bread!

[Tom Zurinskas]

:) ~Beemboe for "bimbo"?  Why not?  Precedence is set with "gringo" and "bingo" where the "i" is pronounced ~ee.  Even "talking" dictionaries say it thus, ~greengoe and ~beengoe though the accompanying written phonetics has short i ~i instead of long e ~ee.  Basically the written phonetics is incorrect and the speakers are correct here as I hear it.

"Bimbo" will always be ~bimboe to me.  But "gringo" is not like "grin go" nor "bingo" like "bin go".  Thoes "i"s change to ~ee.


Tom Zurinskas, Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 9.
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> > Poster: Laurence Horn
> > Subject: Bimbo bread!
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> > I'm sure I would have noticed a commercial for this product if I had
> > ever seen it before tonight, but checking the web, I see it must have
> > been around for a while:
> > http://www.bimbobakeriesusa.com/our_brands/bimbo.html
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> > They want us to pronounce it "Beembo". Fat chance of that.
> >
> > Has the Bimbo bear been around all these years without my running into him?
> >
> > LH
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