[Ads-l] Heard on a re-run of The Office

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Mar 4 21:13:58 UTC 2018


_falcon_ pronounced by Rainn Wilson as the obsolescent "fall.con," instead
of as the far more common "fal.con."

I'm not alone!

There's a discussion on WordReference:

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/pronunciation-falcon.1660038/
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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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