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

[Jonathan Lighter]

As I may have mentioned long ago, the only pronunciation I've ever used
semi-rhymes with "scalpin.'"

JL

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 2:49 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the Army, there was an  NCO named "Forkner." Since he was from behind
> the Cotton Curtain, he pronounced his name as approx. [fOUkn@]. I've spent
> the last 55 years or so wondering whether this spelling might not be an
> attempt at a rendering of _Falconer_ or _Faulkner_ or some such by a
> semi-literate ancestor.
>
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 8:23 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > I’ve heard both pronunciations, although increasingly the one that rhymes
> > with the first two syllables of “balcony”.  But when sportscasters refer
> to
> > the football team based in Atlanta, they seem to always call them the
> > fal.cons /'fael k at nz/ rather than the fall.cons.  Wonder if there are
> > kids growing up who have them as separate lexical items (despite the clue
> > from the team logo).
> >
> > LH
> >
> >
> > > On Mar 4, 2018, at 4:13 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > >
> > > _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/
> > > --
> > > -Wilson
> > > -----
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> > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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> --
> -Wilson
> -----
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> -Mark Twain
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