Kilted WalMart Employees

[kiltedjoss]

For whatever reason.

Price. Value.

[fcgeil]

Price. Value.

Way to take my words out of context, and change them for your own agenda.

[kiltedjoss]

Way to take my words out of context, and change them for your own agenda.

I assure you I meant nothing by it. I agree with your comments. And note that other, more educated et all also shop Walmart for their own reasons.

[tundramanq]

Walmart offers better merchandise, service and prices than Target and the local grocers. Its truly dumb to pay too much elsewhere for the same things.

[fcgeil]

I assure you I meant nothing by it. I agree with your comments. And note that other, more educated et all also shop Walmart for their own reasons.

My apologies. My hackles were up due to... well, it doesn't matter, but it made me overly sensitive.

Walmart offers better merchandise, service and prices than Target and the local grocers. Its truly dumb to pay too much elsewhere for the same things.

Everywhere I've ever seen or heard of, WalMart offers lower quality merchandise and service than anyone else, but at a price point so low that no local retailer can survive; then when that local retailer has gone under, they jack their prices up over the prices that the local retailer had been using. So in that respect, it is truly dumb to pay WalMart at all.

[David Thorpe]

Could I just interject briefly to say, the correct spelling of the word that describes the 'British tan' colour of dusty brown with a hint of green in it, is "khaki", with an H, and pronounced "car-key".

One question, John... Where's the bloody "r" in "khaki"? Hmmm?

[creagdhubh]

...but I avoid the place as much as I can.

Me too.

Cheers,

[fcgeil]

Could I just interject briefly to say, the correct spelling of the word that describes the 'British tan' colour of dusty brown with a hint of green in it, is "khaki", with an H, and pronounced "car-key".

While your spelling is correct, your pronunciation isn't. At least, not according to every dictionary I can find. They all pronounce it: ˈkakē, but many make note that in some Canadian and English areas it is commonly, but incorrectly, pronounced as you indicate. The word seemingly originates from the Persian Kak, meaning dust, so khaki trousers are dust-colored. I'm not trying to bust your chops, John, we all know that words are pronounced differently in various areas of the world. I just don't think that an incorrect pronunciation should be promoted as the correct one when it isn't.

One question, John... Where's the bloody "r" in "khaki"? Hmmm?

There isn't one.

[Paul Henry]

While your spelling is correct, your pronunciation isn't. At least, not according to every dictionary I can find. They all pronounce it: ˈkakē, but many make note that in some Canadian and English areas it is commonly, but incorrectly, pronounced as you indicate. The word seemingly originates from the Persian Kak, meaning dust, so khaki trousers are dust-colored.



There isn't one.

There isn't anything wrong with John's pronounciation, that is exactly how the word is pronounced over here in the UK!

[fcgeil]

There isn't anything wrong with John's pronounciation, that is exactly how the word is pronounced over here in the UK!

Only in certain areas of England and Canada. In the rest of the English-speaking world, and in every English dictionary, it is not pronounced with an "r". Just because a minority of the people pronounce a word a certain way doesn't mean that they are right. Some people pronounce asphalt as " 'ash falt," that doesn't make it correct. There are many words that have local variances in pronunciation. There are still correct pronunciations, and the others are common, but incorrect, variations. This is one of those words.