Originally Posted by
Larry124
. . . To mid-west telemarketers (May they fall on their dirks and puncture their sporrans!
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May all objectionable telemarkers suffer that fate at least.
The deaths of both Hepburn and Cooke are grievous losses to Western arts.
But the mispronunciation of place names is ubiquitous. I still smile at the memory of the very proper Bostonian assuring me that in "Bahs'n", "Iowa" is pronounced "Ohio". and of the actor in that movie about the Tuskegee Airmen who said he was from "Iowa, OTT-umwa".
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"No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single." ---- H. L. Mencken
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