God damn it, that shiny stuff is NOT "joolery." You'd think that the people who

[Redstone]

make commercials would be able to hire someone who can pronounce the word JEWELRY.

But I guess that's asking too much, since they apparently also can't find anyone who understands that the word "caramel" has three syllables...it's not "carmel," for Christ's sake.

Time for me to stop watching television, yes?

Redstone

[leeroysphitz]

1. Yeah! And how hard is it to pronounce aluminium? nt

Edited to say that I HATE those stupid bastards.

[Redstone]

19. Ah, but those Brits tend to add too many letters: according to them, it's "jewellery."

Way too many letters than is necessary.

Redstone

[billyskank]

23. But we pronounce it "jewelry."

As for aluminium, I think somebody decided to add that extra i to bring it into line with all the other element names that end in -ium.

[Lady Effingbroke]

81. Like platinium?

:P

[JohnnyLib2]

37. I have no ideal what ya'll are fussin' about.

Mom'n'em always said it that way and By Gah, that's good enough fer me.

Damnyankees, anyway.

[leeroysphitz]

43. I always knowed you was good peeple. nt

[ElboRuum]

82. After some research...

British spelling: Aluminium.
American spelling: Aluminum.

So, if you say A-LOO-MIN-UM, if you are British, you are wrong and should be impaled on a spike.
If you say AL-YOO-MIN-EE-UM, if you are American, you are wrong and should be impaled on a spike.

I'll just keep saying A-LOO-MIN-UM, simply because I do not wish to be impaled on a spike.

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. "Time for me to stop watching television, yes?"

Join us. It's better without the glass teat.

[Redstone]

7. I go about 9 months a year without watching TV; when it gets too cold to be out

in the screen porch, that's the only time of year I turn the tube on.

And always wish I hadn't.

Redstone

[some guy]

3. or at least adverts on tv.

:D



:hi:

runs off to :hide: so you don't throw somthing at me...

[Sugar Smack]

6. HI.

:D Wow! Nice to see you here, too!

[some guy]

8. It's getting late for you

so...

I'm gonna wait till the midnight hour
That's when my love comes tumbling down
I'm gonna wait till the midnight hour
When there's no one else around
I'm gonna take you girl and hold you
And do all the things I told you
In the midnight hour
Yes I am
Ooh yes I am
One more thing I just want to say right here

I'm gonna wait till the stars come out
And see that twinkle in your eyes
I'm gonna wait till the midnight hour
That when my love begins to shine
You're the only girl I know
That can really love me so
In the midnight hour
Oh yeah ..In the midnight hour
Yeah, alright, play it for me one time

***horn solo***

I’m gonna wait till midnight hour
That’s when my love comes tumbling down
I’m gonna wait, way in the midnight hour
That’s when my love begins to shine
Just you and I…Ooh Baby
Just you and I
Nobody around baby, Just, you and I
I’m gonna hold you, In my arms….


G'night sweet Sugar Smack :hug:

[Sugar Smack]

4. YES! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!

:rofl: You're still up, boyo! I love it. Turn off the tube, eh?

[Redstone]

9. I've had the last Vike of the day, so I'll be upstairs soon. You should be too;

there will be much work to do after the turn of the year, so rest up!

Redstone

[Sugar Smack]

11. I will. Thanks, cousin. Goodnight.

:hug:

[Redstone]

14. Sweet dreams.

Redstone

[Kutjara]

5. Actually, they may as well call the stuff they sell on TV "joolery,"...

...because calling it jewelry would be a lie and calling it "worthless shit" would, while true, incur a fine from the FCC.

[Redstone]

10. As a former jeweler, I must say I agree completely.

Redstone

[Manifestor_of_Light]

21. Yes indeed. It's so crappy and cheap.

The DeBeers cartel has brainwashed Americans for decades.Cubic carbon is not that great.

In my GIA diamond grading class, we referred to mall jewelry as "fish gravel". It should be in somebody's aquarium or die and be reborn as part of a grinding wheel. Not fit for jewelry purposes.

This guy explains why moissanite is way better than cubic carbon:
www.diamondssuck.com

If you want something fine quality and unique, you can do a lot better than a diamond -- say mokume gane, or various interesting colored stones, or if you want to spend serious money, try a good emerald or some nephrite jade or tsavorite or alexandrite.

I was ashamed of the crap I sold at retail, after I had a couple of GIA certificates completed.
Like the lady who asked, "Why does this diamond have black spots? Is it dirty? Does it need to be cleaned?" and I wish I could have said, "No, lady, this is a lump of coal, it's not really a diamond. It was prematurely mined. They should have waited a few million more years for it to metamorphose completely."

But I couldn't say anything.

[Redstone]

31. Affirmative on all that, indeed. I always favored rubies. And shoot me if you want to,

but I always liked Linde stars. Yeah, a synthetic, but you can't deny how gorgeous they are. And not cheap, either.

PS: I'd rather a white spinel than a diamond any day.

Redstone

[Bake]

76. Or is it "jeweller"?

Just askin' ...

:rofl:

Bake

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. My dear Redstone!

How nice to see you posting tonight!

And I agree with you about watching TV...

We mostly don't!

Movies and Jim Lehrer, these days...

Hope you're feeling well tonight...

:hug:

[Redstone]

16. Pretty good, not bad, I can't complain...

(Thank you for another wonderful lyric, John Prine.)

Redstone

[graywarrior]

13. Hey, if Cleopatra can say "they're burning the liberries" then some dork can say joolery

[Redstone]

15. Nucular.

Redstone

[graywarrior]

18. May as well add all of them

Bush word Real word

abonition abomination
Ah ( as in, “Ah think”) I
beeg being
billing building
chillrens children
citiz citizens
dare there
dat that
dudnit doesn’t it
epo-lectic eclectic
fella fellow
ferget forget
gooder better
gubner governor
I-I-I (stutter) I
idnit isn’t it
internets internet
Irun Iran
it-it-it (stutter) it
kine kind
learnt learned
Mericans Americans
new-cue-ler nuclear
nignity dignity
obb-bee-ah-see obviously
pacticle practical
permnit permanent
purty pretty
reconize recognize
recrudiments recruitments
sassnations assassinations
scuse excuse
sectary secretary
searus serious
sitten sitting
sompin something
suiciders suicide-bombers
suscede succeed
tear terror
tearists terrorists
thumpin thumping
tore tour
tuh the (or to)
uh a
unceptable unacceptable
um ?
waried worried
we-we-we (stutter) we
wunnering wondering
wuddnit wasn’t it

[Redstone]

20. A real southerner (or Texan) doesn't even say "dudnit," anyway...

he or she says "dunnit."

Excellent list, by the way.

Redstone

[stuntcat]

79. This makes me want to kill people

I heard an interview today with someone who wouldn't stop saying it and my eye started twitching :freak:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. You're such a jool!

:D

[CreekDog]

22. Grillz are not jewelry either

What an an abomination!



:puke:

[SPKrazy]

24. stop watching telvision?

one that gets me is people pronounce realty real-a-ty, and * nu-ku-ler of course and I hear people who know better saying that too.

don't watch much tv anymore


another possibility is to cut the caffeine intake? :shrug: just kidding...

go buy yer wife some joolery, and then call your realator about those houses :P

[displacedtexan]

25. And when did "realtor" become ree-lah-tor?

[SPKrazy]

26. xactly

i said that too

i laugh when i hear a pretty high end realty agency here where I live run their ad on TV or the radio. They have the owner talking and she only sells really high end properties. Anyway she will say call her real-a-ty agency, :rofl: makes me laugh my ass off to hear it.

[trof]

29. That was mine too. Even some realtors I know say 'real-lah-tor'.

And I say 'dumb'.

[Occam Bandage]

47. Because ree-ul-tur is an unnatural syllabic sequence.

Languages prefer CV structure. It's not surprising that a CV-VC-CVC word shifts to become a CV-CV-CVC word.

The same goes for jewelry->jewel-ery, and nuclear->nukular (that being CV-CCV-VC to CV-CV-CVC)

[regnaD kciN]

27. Joolery is even better than a nice bookay...

...(and, yes, I have seen it spelled that way on florist's signs).

[Fox Mulder]

28. That's how I pronounce it.

:shrug:

I also say "carmel".

Most people here in the Great Lakes area pronounce it that way.

[yellowdogintexas]

30. chris-tu-al for crystal (or Krystal, if you are referring to the superior little square greasburger

a very MidSouth pronunciation.

I also like orientated for oriented
the winner was at a former employer: Pronunciation of this word: adjudication as adjudifacation

cracked me up. It was an indicator of the general madness of the office environment as I was to learn

[Redstone]

34. "Orientated." AAAAARGH! "Competency" for "competence." AAARGH!

Redstone

[Occam Bandage]

46. "Orientated" is a useful word.

If Bob was oriented, he was made to know where he was (or other similar meanings). If Bob was orientated, Bob has undergone an orientation. They're subtly different.

[Redstone]

53. But that's NOT how anyone uses "orientated." If they did, your point would be valid.

Redstone

[Lex]

59. "Orientated" = "oriented" for the Brits

I do believe.

[Redstone]

62. Yes, it is. But remember, those are the people who say "al-yoo-MIN-ium. They like syllables.

Redstone

[skygazer]

32. We have one at work where the woman is talking about meat

And says that it contains no "annabiotics." Irritates me every time. And don't get me going on "carmel." :banghead:

[SPKrazy]

33. or working in psych, "hal-i-dol" for haldol

extra syllables

now don't even get into regional dialect issues, like "sea-mint" for cement :grr:

sta-stis-tics for statistics

:eyes:

[Redstone]

35. Or "ambu-LANCE."

Redstone

[SPKrazy]

39. yeah

have heard that too

[dropkickpa]

75. Grrr on the med name

I work with an individual (commonly known as fun-sucker) who is incapable of pronouncing Reglan (reg-len) correctly. To her, it's reg-u-lan. Like nails on a blackboard.

[lost-in-nj]

36. or caffe (calf ee)

instead of coffee

and waah-ter instead of water.....
oh yeah

hank-ger instead of hanger


lost
:hi:

[SPKrazy]

38. geez what kind of moran

says calf ee for coffee?

:eyes:

or INsurance instead of inSURance (emphasis in caps)

:rofl:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

40. since vs. because ...

:hi:

Since relates to a period of time. Because expresses a reason.
Since 1980, I’ve moved twice.
I saved $25 because it was on sale.
He’s been sick since he arrived.
He left because he was sick.
Since/Because you left, I’ve been lonely. (This one could go either way ... whether you mean after the time of the leaving or as a result of the leaving.)

http://www.dev-bureau.com/tips/grammar.htm

[ashling]

41. All that gitters is nor jooelry,

its newkular stuff.

[madinmaryland]

42. And why do Reelators wear lots of joolery?

:grr:

[Lil Missy]

44. What do you expect from a nation whose leader says "nukular"?

[Occam Bandage]

45. You're okay on "joolery," but dead wrong on "caramel." Both pron. are acceptable.

Check your dictionary.

[Redstone]

49. Feh. Your dictionary may accept it, but I don't. And by the way, MOST dictionaries are wrong

about the definition of "Spanish Main," as well, so they're not infallible.

Redstone

[fudge stripe cookays]

51. I pronounce caramel that way.

So if I ever have the misfortune of meeting you in person, I'll be sure to say it over and over just to irritate you. Because YOUR approval is oh-so-important to me.

:eyes:

[Redstone]

52. And I'll be sure to repond to your hostility with good manners.

Redstone

[fudge stripe cookays]

57. That wasn't good manners above.

Just because YOU don't like it doesn't mean it's not correct, as the dictionary states. Part of it is regional variations in speech.

It's a backhanded way of saying that people that pronounce words differently than you are incorrect or stupid. I was merely reflecting the attitude and hostility I felt.

[Redstone]

58. Take things a bit too personally, there? I guess I'll just have to learn to be careful

to not offend your delicate sensibilities in the future.

Redstone

[fudge stripe cookays]

63. Nah...

I just find ettiquette lessons from someone who enjoys posting his wife's baggage out on the internet to be laughable.

Thanks, Emily Post.

[Redstone]

65. Ignore is my friend. Goodbye.

Redstone

[fudge stripe cookays]

68. Truth hurts.

Doesn't it?

[dbt]

48. It's "joolery" among the Irish!

"Before judge and jury next morning,
Both of us had to appear.
With the gentleman claimin his joolery,
The case set against us was clear."

This comes to me first-hand from a Clareman named Davey, who feckin' ROCKZ when he sings "Black Velvet Band!"

Ireland FOREVER.

slainte!
:beer:

[reyd reid reed]

50. You'd think...

but you'd also think that news anchors could pronounce words correctly and that reporters could avoid grammatical errors.

The saddest thing of all is that so many people don't even notice...much less care.

Drives me bats, though.

[Redstone]

60. And also sad the newspapers no longer have editors who edit. For example, stories that

mention a car with a "busted headlight."

Were I a newspaper editor, any reporter who used the word "busted" to mean "broken" would get fired.

Redstone

[reyd reid reed]

61. A year or two back

I was reading and saw 'brake' in a story that should have used 'break'.

And a story on A1 that used 'allright' in a sentence. Not a quote, in the body.

On A1!!

:wow:

[Redstone]

64. Above the fold, too, I'll bet. There was a story on page 1 of the Home section of

the Hartford paper last week that described a chef as having a "flare" for a certain kind of cooking.

Not a "flair."

Is it time for us to give up now?

Redstone

[reyd reid reed]

66. Never give up.

And yup...above the fold.

I think that we should take the offending section(s), roll it up and rap 'em sharply across the knuckles. Either that or on the nose.

That'd learn 'em.

Or not.

[Redstone]

67. Probably not. But, as you say, we need to refuse to give up.

Redstone

[DeepBlueC]

54. Why do some realtors

describe themselves as real-a-tors in front of a bloody camera? And why doesn't anyone on set correct them?

[ElboRuum]

83. It's cam-ra, not cam-er-a... derrr.

:evilgrin:

[lizerdbits]

55. Maybe they are antisemitic

And didn't want to pronounce Jew? :shrug:

[Redstone]

56. Or maybe they REALLY like Jools, notwithstanding their feelings about Jews.

Redstone

[Ellen Forradalom]

69. my favorite sportscaster neologism is "analyzation"

Sounds pretty kinky to me.

[Redstone]

70. And also, regarding sports, "Ath-a-lete." Heard it just today, in fact.

Redstone

[gbate]

77. I heard that announcer say that a few times yesterday.

What was up with that?? Who was that guy?

[Ellen Forradalom]

71. I'll skip this tomfoolery

About the word 'joolery.'
To avoid the word's sting,
I'll simply say BLING.

[gbate]

72. Where I come from, it's Car-mel.

But never joo-lery.

[zanne]

73. And it's not "Febyooary"...

It's "February". And it's not "nucular", it's "nuclear". And, damn it, it's not "fith", it's "fifth"!

[Burma Jones]

74. Carmel is a nice little town in NY, or California

Cooked Sugar is car-a-mel

And Jewelry? two syllables, right?

Maybe you should get a DVR and skip the commercials........

[Tommy_Carcetti]

78. I'm going to Balmer, Merlan to buy some joolery

So there. :)

[gbate]

80. Hey hon! Welcome to Bawlmer!

Don't fergit to watch out when you see an ambu-lance!