"Garridge" has always sounded most appropriate for the music genre.

Then that's another reason why it's a good thing that Garridge music never really caught on in my country.

I actually thought this one through one day, gararj sounds suave and sexy, homarj sounds more than slightly stupid.

Gararj sounds stupidly posh to me. And I went a posh school. With posh pupils. Who thought "gararj" sounded stupidly posh.

The first few times I ever heard Homage it was pronounced "Omarj". No H, that would sound awful. Hommidge sounds more than slightly stupid to me. Like the worst kind of food imaginable.

"I haven't eaten in seven days! At last, a big bowl of hommidge! …Actually, nah."

But... but... it's a French word. That would be like pronouncing the 't' in 'mortgage' or 'debut'.

It should be noted that I was brought up in very working class conditions all my life in poor council districts in a poor town near Birmingham, I have no idea where my lexical elitism came from.

Or your close-to-RP accent.

i spose i'm the only one who pronounces 'Rugely' as Rudgley?

Where the hell are you from MA? Rugely and Lichfield are towns under ten miles away from where my parents live.

lived in Lichfield all my life, i think the pronunciation of Rugely as 'Rudgley' is just the accent. not many people have lived here long enough to pick up little things like that so you can always tell if they have moved here from somewhere else.

Wow, you do live uncomfortably close to me. I didn't think there was any other Staffordshirians on this forum.

EDIT: OH FUCK 2500 POSTS WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN

i take it you heard on the news about Mick Eccles being murdered by those two youths then?

that happened at the bottom of my street, and even more worryingly, i had a confrontation with the younger lad about a week before outside the shops.

I'm spending about an hour to an hour and a half a night teaching Abbey to read. All I have to say is this: Fuck you, English language. Fuck you.

Don't mention that. Things like that really make me angry. I tend to get sent into fits of rage and frustration, and I'll be wound up for about half an hour.

But that is quite worrying. It's very strange when things like that happen near where you live, isn't it?

tell me about it. the bloke even used to drink in my local, but i never spoke to him. poor chap.

I hope those cretinous little irks get what they deserve.

Why don't you move to France, then?

Teach her Lojban instead.

Garridge? Never heard of it before. I say Garardge.

But....that's where the French live.


It isn't easy to explain why the rules constantly change when trying to teach her the written language. She's doing really well, though.

I always found that a bit pretentious. There's something about that "ahj" prenuncation that bothers me.

How do you pronounce mirage and sabotage? Negrep to anyone who mentions anything remotely Star Trek related. Especially you, Shit Nathan.

Mir-ahj and sab-i-tahj.

You win, Russians. A letter for every sound, and there's no such thing as 'w' or 'h'.

I pronounce Sabotage in the same way as the Beastie Boys (and I say Mirage in the same way).

I was aiming my question at Oj to make a point, but whatevs. Free-for-all.

I had always wondered why we did those pointless spelling tests and had to read out loud in class.

Is there any way she can get any foreign language education at the time being?

Sometimes she watches Dora.

Mirardge and sabotarge. I have never pronounced anything as "ahj" apart from when I've mocked a middle-class accent. It may sound silly to you, but it is just how I've been brought up to talk.

So you mock the proper pronunciation? That doesn't sound like you.