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Loogahgbaroogah
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 01:47:47 -0700, bob wrote:
On 28 June, 23:20, Arthur Figgis wrote: Anyone mentioned Bombardier yet? (being from Quebec, the train and plane manufacturer is not pronounced like the beer) French canadian: Bom-bah-dzay Anglo canadian: Bom-bar-dee-yay (with a strong USian/Candian "R" in bar) Beer: Bomb-ber-deer (unless I'm drinking with certain railway enthusiastic friends, in which case we deliberately mispronounce it to match the railway supplier) I once heard someone pronounce the beer as if it was the adjective between "bombardy" and "bombardiest". |