The new leader of the Australian Liberal Party, Brendon Nelson, pronounces the word 'longevity' with a hard 'G'; 'G' as in 'gap' rather than 'G' as in 'gee wiz'.
What's with that?!
Sunday, December 2, 2007
Longevity with a hard 'g'
Posted by Mark at 10:20 AM
Labels: australia, language, pet peeves, politics
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3 comments:
Who knows. (I'm trying a pre-NY resolution of being polite to the vanquished morons of this world...damn, there goes the resolution!).
A supervisor who shall remain nameless pronounces 'question' as 'kwestion' but 'questionnaire' as 'kestionairre'. No 'w'.
Beats me.
Oh no! That's worse than 'tray' instead of 'trait'
What up G
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