Youneverknow.

[Tom Zurinskas]

"Tamara tomorrow!"

A son will come up?


Tom Zurinskas, first Ct 20 yrs, then Tn 3, NJ 33, Fl 9.
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> When I was in the Army, in 1961, I had a barracks-mate whose
> girlfriend was named _Tamara_ [t@'mar^]. He used to annoy the hell out
> of us with his punning chant of
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> "Tamara tomorrow!"
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> During the MTV teen drama, Awkward, a character announces,
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> "I'm [t@'mar^]! It's spelled ['tAm at r@]!"
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> And then she proceeds to make the same, obvious, asinine pun.
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> I deduce from this that, these days, the general assumption is that,
> unless otherwise noted, _Tamara_ is to be pronounced ['tAm at r@] and
> that the formerly-standard pronunciation, [t@'mar^], once the only one
> known to me - and to all of my barracks-mates and, indeed, AFAIK, to
> tout le monde - is now considered to be cutely exotic.
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> --
> -Wilson
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> 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.
> -Mark Twain
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