No kiddin'! Maybe we can debate the derailleur/derailer spelling and pronounciation next. ----- Original Message ----- From: George Schick To: RBW Owners Bunch Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 3:47 PM Subject: Re: Fwd: [RBW] Beausage...bow? Bue?
Late Winter cabin fever has definitely begun to set in.... On Feb 21, 4:20 pm, Atlantean <softlysoftlycatcheemon...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jest the thang fer wen ya want ta sound all high falutin' and French. > "Dewd! Did ya see me wen I crashed wen I hucked offa that big rock? > Now I got me some bow-sazh on my derail-yer!" > > On Feb 21, 2:42 pm, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Perhaps I'm nitpicking or my mind is too loosely fettered, but mulling > > over this term "beausage", I'm troubled by the fact that I read > > (somewhere, I don't remember, maybe here?) it is pronounced BYOO- > > SIDGE, as in "beautiful" and "usage", with no loss of the original > > words' pronunciations inside the new word. From the first time I > > encountered this term in print, however, I immediately pronounced it > > (in my head) in the Francophone way, that is: BOW-SAHZHE (I don't know > > how to spell out the Z-ish g phonetical pronunciation). I think my > > pronunciation is more fitting, especially since "beau" means beautiful > > (more or less) in French, and the term sounds classier and more spot- > > on when pronounce this way. Thoughts? > > > You are indubitably and ineluctibly correct: beau-SAHJ is and ever must be > > the correct way to pronounce this very useful word. > > > The *thing* in its beauty and definiteness is not adequately respresented by > > byoosij. > > > Patrick "good things rhyme with 'corsage'" Moore --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
