On Monday, August 4, 2014 9:35:22 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> On Sunday, August 3, 2014 7:19:08 PM UTC-4, Kalmia wrote:
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> > I won't even get INTO 'forte'.
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> I learned that from George Carlin.
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> It was gratifying, later on, to hear Charles Emerson Winchester (on
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> M*A*S*H) pronouncing the noun correctly. Those writers sure did
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> their research well - but for all I know, David Ogden Stiers
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> knew the correct pronunciation anyway.
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> (For those who don't know, you only pronounce the e when it's an
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> adjective.)
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> It's refreshing when comics and cartoonists use intelligence and
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> simple facts to make things funnier. One Far Side cartoon example:
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> http://www.jokefile.co.uk/animal_jokes/mosquito.html
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> SPOILER:
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> (Part of the joke is that it's only the female mosquitoes that drink
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> blood - the males drink plant juices.)
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The females drink plant juices too.
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> Lenona.

--Bryan