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

[Dan Goncharoff]

I think we covered this before: Greenstreet was English, Lorre was German,
both playing foreigners when talking about the fall-con.

On Mar 5, 2018 11:08 AM, "Laurence Horn" <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:

> > On Mar 5, 2018, at 7:45 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >
> > As I may have mentioned long ago, the only pronunciation I've ever used
> > semi-rhymes with "scalpin.'"
> >
> > JL
>
> I’m pretty sure I use the fall-kin pronunciation if I’m reciting the
> second line of Yeats’s Second Coming or the title of the Hammett/Bogart
> quarry from Malta (maybe because of the assonance in the latter case; ditto
> if I ever came across a bar called the Salty Falcon). But, as mentioned,
> never for the Atlanta NFL franchise.  Otherwise I don’t have much occasion
> to refer to the actual birds.
>
> LH
> >
> > 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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> to
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