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Re: O vs WO vs AH
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Date: 
Mon, 2 Aug 1999 19:20:16 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Todd Lehman writes:

Hey, how close is that to TWOD?  (I gather that's the native-East-Coast way
to pronounce it -- similar to BWOS'-tin.  :)  Where I grew up (Minneapolis)
it's pronounced TAHD, but not quite the nasal TAAHHHD that they say in
Milwaukee and Chicago.  :)

--Todd

Ah, a great mystery of life has become revealed.  Now I understand Todd's
attraction to LEGO.  Being from Mininoplace, he naturally took to minifigs.
:')



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  Re: Phonetics for "LUGNET" trademark and member IDs (was Re: member id's: simple numbers or something mo
 
(...) I assumed Todd *did* mean 'MUHK' to rhyme with 'muck'. I didn't think about it at the time, but 'UH' doesn't look much like it should be pronounced like the sounds in either "book" or "fluke". Steve (25 years ago, 29-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.general)

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