27 Feb 2009
armchairpunter
That's totally pants, man.
27 Feb 2009
Hugh Fitzgerald
I am an American boy. And as an American boy, and thus naturally a connoisseur of such things, I have never heard a fellow citizen pronounce "lingerie" as "lonzheray" except in old movies, where the elevator operator in the department store does, I admit, call out "Women's Lonzheray." That is only my testimony. And perhaps I don't get out often enough. But there it is.
27 Feb 2009
Mary Jackson
My Americanisms are, admittedly, rather elastic.
27 Feb 2009
Uncle Kenny
One likes to fit in, so to speak.
Whenever I mention lah-jer-ee to friends and family they just look at me and occasionally snicker. If I give up and say lon-jur-ay, they nod and understand.
I do refuse to say a-sess-er-ee, however.
27 Feb 2009
Paul Blaskowicz
[...] I have never heard a fellow citizen pronounce "lingerie" as "lonzheray" [...] - Hugh
That comes from never mixing with the real people. I asked two unrelated American friends how they pronounced lingerie. Both said lan-zhuh-'ray. Random House gives that as the first pronunciation, and lan-zhuh-'ree as the second. Of the three dictionaries with pronunciation (and sound) two give lan-zhuh-'ray as the preferred (most usual?) US pronunciation. The UK pronunciation is approx. 'lan-zhuh-ry
27 Feb 2009
Artemis
Lawn-jer-ay. Is that putting on airs? I didn't know there was an alternative; not that the word comes up much in conversations in which I participate.
28 Feb 2009
John M. J.
There was a young lady of Ryes1,
Whose life was bereft of all peace;
When asked why that was,
She said, “It’s because
of a lanzhuring fear of green peas”.
Her life was most blighted –
she was sore a-frighted.
When asked why ‘twere so
she by no means was slow,
but fanzhured her fear, oft slighted,
By a culprit so plain,
and she wasn’t being vain –
She was haunted, you see,
and this info’s for free,
by a strange little ghoti2. Insane!
1. A commune in Normandy pronounced ‘Reece’.
2 Just say it: ‘gh’ as in enough; ‘o’ as in women; ‘ti’ as in motion..
28 Feb 2009
Enoch
Put "knickers" down as the annoying Britishism of the week!
Stupid word.
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