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@Team Deejay wrote:
OK, so now tell me is it Laff-am Peak or Lap-Ham Peak?
Don’t for get LAUgh-AM Peak. How the heck do you get a” FIFFF” out of AUGH??? None of my English Teacher coould answer that for me.
I believe the following website can clear up a number of Wisconsin pronounciation issues.
http://www.misspronouncer.com/
And if you watch the scenic slideshow on the homepage you’ll even see a few pictures of “craphas” including this one.
@labrat_wr wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
@sandlanders wrote:
Knowing the etymology of “craphas”, for pronunciation I split the word between the P and the H. Are there those of you who are looking at the word and making the PH the usual blend and saying “craffas”? 😉
I can’t wait till this word starts coming up in spelling bees now!
It’s actually crah-PAHS, with the accent on the second syllable.
kinda like “FAVRE”
So, is it LAB-rat or la-BRAT? 😉
@Trekkin’ and Birdin’ wrote:
Has anyone here read a kids’ book called “Frindle?” You could read it in an evening, but it’s a great book. Kid decides to call a “pen” a “frindle.” Strict teacher won’t accept it, because it’s not in the dictionary. The use of the word snowballs anyway (ha ha) until the kid makes national news.
I won’t spoil the ending for anyone who might want to read it. It’s a fun book. The author has written several more, but this one’s been around awhile, cause I did a read aloud with our own two boys who are now 20 and 23.
This whole business kinda reminds me of the book.
Apparently this inspired kids somewhere to start saying “Meep” all the time which resulted in a school changing their school rules banning “meep” from being said in school and many kids were suspended. Heard about this on the radio one morning.
He said Meep meep as he dropped his frindle into the craphas!
@sandlanders wrote:
@labrat_wr wrote:
@gotta run wrote:
@sandlanders wrote:
Knowing the etymology of “craphas”, for pronunciation I split the word between the P and the H. Are there those of you who are looking at the word and making the PH the usual blend and saying “craffas”? 😉
I can’t wait till this word starts coming up in spelling bees now!
It’s actually crah-PAHS, with the accent on the second syllable.
kinda like “FAVRE”
So, is it LAB-rat or la-BRAT? 😉
now THAT has happened too!
“la`Brat shouted Meep Meep as he dropped his croissant in the craphas trying to retrieve his frindle from the frozen bubbler while the radio commentary spoke of Brett Fah-vray”
Disclaimer : Always answering to a higher power.
@-cheeto- wrote:
Meep meep
Wasn’t this phrase coined by the Road Runner? I loved that cartoon (almost as much as this craphas).
Or was that “Beep Beep” or maybe even “Mheep Mheep” In any event why does the english language have to be so confusing. So much so that I think one of the great puzzlers has built a few puzzles in the land of Sellzup based on these confusions (i.e. Hooked on Phonics series).
And on a vaguely related tangent, I have read the book Crazy English, by Richard Lederer. I believe he has many books about the quirkiness of English, like why we drive on a parkway and park in a driveway, for example. It is an interesting read, and even helpful if English is not your first language.
As my friends in England constantly comment – Americans don’t speak English. They speak American.
Didn’t the Coneheads say “Meep” or something like that?
Isn’t Labrat’s a brand of Canadian beer?
@sandlanders wrote:
Didn’t the Coneheads say “Meep” or something like that?
Ummm the Pink or Purple Muppets version of the cone heads did I think.
BrrrrrRING!!!! BrrrrrRing!@cheezehead wrote:
@sandlanders wrote:
Didn’t the Coneheads say “Meep” or something like that?
Ummm the Pink or Purple Muppets version of the cone heads did I think.
BrrrrrRING!!!! BrrrrrRing!I thought it was Beaker from the Muppets who said Meep alot.
@Vegas Gamblers wrote:
@cheezehead wrote:
@sandlanders wrote:
Didn’t the Coneheads say “Meep” or something like that?
Ummm the Pink or Purple Muppets version of the cone heads did I think.
BrrrrrRING!!!! BrrrrrRing!I thought it was Beaker from the Muppets who said Meep alot.
OR Seaseme Street. There was a skit on one of them shows.
Huh? Sesame Street?
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