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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:34:19 GMT
- Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
- From: G <g@PIZZABOX.DEMON.CO.UK>
- Subject: Re: WORDS-L TP: abh's Sport/Leisure Question
- Comments: To: WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu
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- :> Why the American version
- :> needed a name change is difficult to comprehend though?
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- :How *do* you pronounce it? I don't think Parker Bros. thought a game
- :that rhymes w/ dog doo (or zoo doo!) was a good image-maker.
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- There we have the answer, Carolyn - Americans can't pronounce new words
- by inferring the pronunciation, unless someone tells them how. Maybe
- they should have spelt it the Dan Quayle way...
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