You guys are funny!Originally Posted by fatnhappy
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You guys are funny!
I'm gonna give it the French pronunciation from now on. ME'-plah. Hey it's a French word might as well say it they way they do.
I had to look up how to pronounce ogive too. Now I just sing "Willie and the ogive" (you have to be at least 65 to remember that song) It's "Willie and the hand Jive. I know you guys don't mind going off topic so Ima post the song here for the younger folks...
Traffer, tht is one beautiful 58 Impala. My uncle had one in two tone tan and light brown. The 58 in my all time favorite car. Maybe a 66 Chevelle SS, which I had at one time. james
Meh-plat.....
My favorite is Moet champagne. Everyone likes to practice their French with a silent "T"... to the point of seeing it necessary to correct anyone pronouncing said letter.
Funny thing is,Moet is a German family who does enunciate the "T". Back to regular programming.
it's plateau
It will always be "Me Platt" to me. Incidentally, I speak French just fine, I just cant type it here without being reprimanded.
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Pecan: If a southerner hears it pronounced peh canns' it's a warning from another southerner that there's a yankee present. Otherwise it's the can you pee in.
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Just to stir the pot a little, how do you pronounce this one.
We could put the boolit with the meplat into a sabot.
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Could it be a say-beaux ?
Sabot ...a French wooden shoe ?
The road was rough but we had our sabot's to protect our feet .
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My head says "Me Play". I don't need to know how to pronounce it 'cause I don't know any casters to talk to, face to face...
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Where I come from, it's a mesa. I don't speak French, so it MEE-plat.
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The photo of a '58 Chevy blasted me with childhood memories. A close friend's father bought a new '58, color gold, convertible, with a full Continental kit on it. That was the car I drooled over for about a year, until it disappeared from their driveway. My friend claimed the car was stolen from them.. Later I heard 2 stories about the disappearance, either of which could have been true: (1) the owner lost it in a crooked poker game, or (2) the bank re-possessed it. Knowing the owner's job swapping history I favor the second option as most likely to be correct.
I could care less how the french say it in my neck of the woods it is pronounced as it is spelled met plat. And the french can stay the heck out of it.
Yep, Hogtamer, "down here" it's pronounced puh-kahns, and as far as meplat, I'm not in France so it's me-plat if we want it to be.
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Way out here in the northwest we don't think about Yankees or Southerners much, unless we're thinking about regional cuisine. And we are thankful for both. We like French food too.
The folks I know pronounce it:
MEHplatt
Around the holidays, my loved ones insist that I make pehCONN pies.
We also believe that the correct pronunciation is GAIRund, but we say GuhRAND anyway.
The season between summer and winter is Fall, and our father's sister is pronounced ANT.
We also chuckle when Easterners pronounce Oregon.
I have no idea how to pronounce
Sellier & Bellot (Sell ee ay & BellOH?)
Grendel (GRENdel, GrenDELL?)
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may-platt, pee can, ki nock, say beau, ant, breakfast-dinner-supper.
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Well, then it sux tu belleaux...
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