_toluene_

[Wilson Gray]

Heard this pronounced by a TV actor as

TOLE-you-ween [touLuwin].

Haven't heard that before. I'm used to

TALL-you-ween [tOLuwin].


Did the actor sleep through high-school chem?

Or am I once again behind the language-change  curve?

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
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