Random Daily Banter

[briantrumpet]

Where does the pronunciation "haitch" originate? Gets right on my tits.

There's an intriguing relatively modern one, that I'll probably realise isn't all that recent. It is the inversion of sounds in "ask". He aksed, etc. I hear it both sides of the Atlantic, and I personally find it much harder to pronounce than "asked".

Call me when you've finished your homework.

Does this soothe your tits at all? Well, until @TailWindHome tells us it's an AI fail, of course.

Must be 50 years ago when some enthusiastic person on TV in some gospel setting said something about "eaven and hearth" with great enthusiasm while she praised the Lord (not Mandelson, I assume).

 

[BoldonLad]

Where does the pronunciation "haitch" originate? Gets right on my tits.

There's an intriguing relatively modern one, that I'll probably realise isn't all that recent. It is the inversion of sounds in "ask". He aksed, etc. I hear it both sides of the Atlantic, and I personally find it much harder to pronounce than "asked".

Call me when you've finished your homework.

I always thought that was due to a speech impediment?

 

[Ian H]

Does this soothe your tits at all? Well, until @TailWindHome tells us it's an AI fail, of course.

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Must be 50 years ago when some enthusiastic person on TV in some gospel setting said something about "eaven and hearth" with great enthusiasm while she praised the Lord (not Mandelson, I assume).

Aspirational aspirant.

 

[briantrumpet]

Aspirational aspirant.

aa 🤣

 

[briantrumpet]

Is it just me who still does a double take when I read "earlier this century", forgetting we're now in the 21st?

 

[Pblakeney]

Is it just me who still does a double take when I read "earlier this century", forgetting we're now in the 21st?

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FYI - We are now more than 1/4 way through the 21st century. 😉

 

[Pross]

Is it just me who still does a double take when I read "earlier this century", forgetting we're now in the 21st?

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Not just you, I find it quite worrying that we are over quarter of the way through when it doesn't seem that long ago that the idea of a new millennium felt so futuristic.

 

[briantrumpet]

FYI - We are now more than 1/4 way through the 21st century. 😉

No. I'm sorry, it's just not possible.

 

[briantrumpet]

Not just you, I find it quite worrying that we are over quarter of the way through when it doesn't seem that long ago that the idea of a new millennium felt so futuristic.

 

[briantrumpet]

One for poetry lovers:

 

[Ian H]

One for poetry lovers:

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Arches
of buildings, this building,
frame a stream of windows
framed in white brick. This
building is fireproof; or else
it isn’t: the furnishings first
to go: no, the patients. Patients
on Sundays walk in a small garden.
Today some go out on a group
pass. To stroll the streets and shop.
So what else is new? The sky
slowly/swiftly went blue to grey.
A grey in which some smoke stands.
[James Schuyler]

 

[briantrumpet]

There once was a profligate poet
Who was shit, and don't you just know it
His poems don't rhyme
And waste so much time
That you'd be better off drinking some Moët

 

[Ian H]

There once was a profligate poet
Who was shit, and don't you just know it
His poems don't rhyme
And waste so much time
That you'd be better off drinking some Moët

If you're not careful, I'll post more Schuyler. He is one of my favourite poets, and the one above is an absolute gem.

 

[briantrumpet]

If you're not careful, I'll post more Schuyler. He is one of my favourite poets, and the one above is an absolute gem.

I think we might have different tastes in poetry. Just a hunch.

 

[briantrumpet]

Just for old times' sake. IYKYK.

https://bsky.app/profile/katebevan.com/post/3mfqzvvedf32f