Consider Phlebas - how DO you pronounce it?
Daniel
some versions i have heard: flebass, fleebers, fleebs, fillybas.
Dave Shipley
Daniel wrote:
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> How exactly is "Phlebas" pronounced?
> some versions i have heard: flebass, fleebers, fleebs, fillybas.
Oh definitely f-lee-bass
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Dave
Most mentions of cats ever
Richard Horton
>How exactly is "Phlebas" pronounced?
>some versions i have heard: flebass, fleebers, fleebs, fillybas.
I would pronounce it flee'bus, with the "u" meant to be a schwa. I'm
an American from the Midwest, speaking a strongly rhotic dialect. A
non-rhotic speaker, like a South Englander, might render that
fleebers, and not pronounce the "r".
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MERY François
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> Daniel wrote:
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> > How exactly is "Phlebas" pronounced?
> > some versions i have heard: flebass, fleebers, fleebs, fillybas.
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> --
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> * Eyes open, mouth moving, but Mr Brain has long since left the
> building
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> Dave
> Most mentions of cats ever
What is the meaning behind"most mentions of cats ever"?I guess there is one
but being French I do not get it.
François
Andrew Ducker
int.news.prodigy.com>:
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>On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 20:31:33 +0000, Daniel
><danie...@btinternet.com> wrote:
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>>How exactly is "Phlebas" pronounced?
>>some versions i have heard: flebass, fleebers, fleebs, fillybas.
>
>I would pronounce it flee'bus, with the "u" meant to be a schwa. I'm
>an American from the Midwest, speaking a strongly rhotic dialect. A
>non-rhotic speaker, like a South Englander, might render that
>fleebers, and not pronounce the "r".
Dammit, I've been pronouncing it Flay-Bass (Bass as in the fish, not the
instrument).
Andy D
Adrian Baugh
>rrho...@prodigy.net (Richard Horton) wrote in <8a72mu$d6la$1@newssvr03-
>int.news.prodigy.com>:
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>>On Wed, 08 Mar 2000 20:31:33 +0000, Daniel
>><danie...@btinternet.com> wrote:
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>>>How exactly is "Phlebas" pronounced?
>>>some versions i have heard: flebass, fleebers, fleebs, fillybas.
>>
>>I would pronounce it flee'bus, with the "u" meant to be a schwa. I'm
>
>instrument).
And I render it "Flebbus" (emphasis on the short e, the u is again a
schwa). Wierd..
Adrian.
Dave Shipley
"MERY François" wrote:
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> > Daniel wrote:
> > >
> > > How exactly is "Phlebas" pronounced?
> > > some versions i have heard: flebass, fleebers, fleebs, fillybas.
> >
> > Oh definitely f-lee-bass
> >
> > --
> >
> > * Eyes open, mouth moving, but Mr Brain has long since left the
> > building
> >
> > Dave
> > Most mentions of cats ever
>
> What is the meaning behind"most mentions of cats ever"?I guess there is one
> but being French I do not get it.
Well, I don't know if it's still true, but there was a time (a few
months ago) when it was pointed out to me that I had the most mentions
of cats on usenet...
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* Ah arrogance and stupidity in one tidy package.
Gropius Riftwynde
wrote:
>Dammit, I've been pronouncing it Flay-Bass (Bass as in the fish, not the
>instrument).
But When? Where? Why? Do you go up to women at parties and say,
provocatively, "Con-sidder Flay-Bass", and then sort of pucker at them
in the hope that they will flutter their eyelids at you and ask: "How
intiguing, I'd love you to to come back to my apartment asnd tell me
why I should?"
GR
Andrew Ducker
<38ccfcd4....@news.cygnus.co.uk>:
No, it's currently being used as a greeting safeword by the local
Illuminati Chapter.
(Although it does work on some women. It's only got a 27.6% success rate
tho)
Andy D
Emma McDonald
...........lee.............
..bus as in pus.......!!!!!!!!!!
tonyC
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"Emma McDonald" <
emma.m...@zoom.co.uk>
wrote:
> fu as in fuck............
> ...........lee.............
> ..bus as in pus.......!!!!!!!!!!
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Accent on the fu?
....tonyC
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