The title "My Fair Lady" derives primarily from the final line of the song "London Bridge is Falling Down". But it is more than that: it is the Cockney pronunciation of "Mayfair Lady", and while neither 27A Wimpole

In le message del Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:43:06 GMT, Cgao Coma ha scripte: Hi I recently jumped into this ancient english term, ANTANI, I don't know the meaning, neither the origin. It should concern the tuscan city of Florence (X-posted), but not

... } I don't know what song you're referring to; my interest in } the thread started with seeing "AH" used to represent a } pronunciation. The issue concerning the use of "ah" to } convey pronunciation will never be

Many New York named streets were re-named once or more. And that's even without renaming having been directed by any foreign occupying forces. How 'bout the British? E.g. 'de Heerenstraat' => 'Broadway'. In some cases

I have always found the spelling of "missus" unusual, too, but I have to say that I find it a reasonably good phonetic rendering. Only if you tell people it's pronounced with the "u" as in "'business",

Does anyone who says "bye-bye" actually say "bye-bye"? Don't they ... except in dialogue "missus" is another Dead Wonky one.) I do - when I say it at all, I say it properly. I have always found the spelling of

Irma > misc.education.language.english in Is there more than one phonetic alphabets? AFAIK, the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is the international standard. If you are using a newsreader with Unicode support ("40tude Dialog"

Once upon a 2/26/04 12:14 AM, in the land of (Email Removed), the good witch "Al Treacher" from (Email Removed) told the whole world all about how: Mentally wrestling with the correct usage of 'an' or 'a' before a word

Or, more commonly, "zounds". AHD4 lists "'sblood", from "God's blood", ... had thought that they were supposed to be Jesus's hands. For a Christian, unless he is an Arianist (aka Unitarian), Jesus *is*

Bob Cunningham filted: Somebody I think it was Dena Jo commented recently on the futility of trying to foil harvesters of ... even for a harvester. There are flaws in this approach, but it's the best idea I've heard of so far. Not least of