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Old 11-07-2007, 11:33 PM   #1
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Simply, the pronounciation is something like "lae-get" (as in "lay" and "to get something"). Well, more or less.
Yeesh...apparently I just can't pronounce anything right..

I've been pronounciating your name horribly wrong for a whole year. Now I must go re-teach myself.

You know you're addicted to the Barrow Downs when you spend twenty minutes trying to pronounce Legate, ha.
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Old 11-08-2007, 04:59 PM   #2
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So ... it's like ... leggit?
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Old 11-17-2007, 11:10 AM   #3
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Old 11-17-2007, 11:12 AM   #4
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Old 11-24-2007, 03:42 PM   #5
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A few more examples of the "seeing 'downers -phenomenon":

My little sister was studying geography and reading her geography textbook aloud. I really wasn't listening to her, but one word did catch my attention.
Me: "What?! Did you say "runemuodostelma"?
Sister: "Silly. I said "reunamuodostuma"."
Good for me. Even though I must say I'm a master of mishearing words. Maybe that I managed to hear "muodostuma" as "muodostelma" gives some idea of it. (Muodostuma and muodostelma both mean "formation" in Finnish, "muodostuma" is just something that has formed by itself and "muodostelma" is something shaped/formed by humans. And the proper English translation of the term "reunamuodostelma" is "ice marginal formation" or something like that, in case anyone was wondering. )

Also, my sister read that her toothbrush said "Legate" when it really said "Colgate". When I laughed at her and told her she seems to be addicted to the BD she replied something like: "No, I'm not. That was all your fault, because you always speak of the Barrow-Downs and Barrow-Downs people." I leave it for you to judge which one of us is to blame.

Lastly, I couldn't help laughing when studying irregular Swedish and found "to burn": brinna, brinner, brann, brunnit. Sounded all too much like Brinn(iel) to me...
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Old 11-24-2007, 03:48 PM   #6
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Also, my sister read that her toothbrush said "Legate" when it really said "Colgate". When I laughed at her and told her she seems to be addicted to the BD she replied something like: "No, I'm not. That was all your fault, because you always speak of the Barrow-Downs and Barrow-Downs people." I leave it for you to judge which one of us is to blame.
You, of course But still it seems to me that your sister could write to this thread herself. And whatever the case, I am very amused by this. (Actually, I happen to have a Colgate toothpaste...)

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Lastly, I couldn't help laughing when studying irregular Swedish and found "to burn": brinna, brinner, brann, brunnit. Sounded all too much like Brinn(iel) to me...
That's the only thing from all you named that I would consider "normal", because I would also read it like that. In fact, for already a very long time I have similar problem with the latin verb "volo". But that's even more obvious, I believe.
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Old 11-25-2007, 05:58 AM   #7
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But still it seems to me that your sister could write to this thread herself.
Fine. Though I don't (yet) consider myself as addicted to the Barrow-Downs..

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When I laughed at her and told her she seems to be addicted to the BD she replied something like: "No, I'm not. That was all your fault, because you always speak of the Barrow-Downs and Barrow-Downs people."
No, no, no. It was more about her talking about Legate all the time...

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