Spelling Mnemonic: Bureau
jgharston
it up every time I use it, which will get embarrassing soon as I start
working for the local CAB next decade. For some reason I keep trying
to spell it beau....
JGH
Bertel Lund Hansen
> Can anybody suggest a spelling mnemonic for "bureau".
I use a letter-true pronunciation in my mind to remember the
spelling: "bu-re-a-u".
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Bertel, Denmark
musika
jgharston <j...@arcade.demon.co.uk> typed:
There's no beau in bureau.
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Ray
UK
Arcadian Rises
Keep spelling it "beau" but add "your" [ chatroom abbreviated as "ur"]
after the first letter. So it's like "your (ur) beau"
erilar
<b8b160df-3912-452d...@m35g2000vbn.googlegroups.com>,
jgharston <j...@arcade.demon.co.uk> wrote:
You have the water in the wrong half 8-) Of course, I lived in Eau
Claire for many years, so it's easy to remember "eau =oh"
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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
Robin Bignall
You are far from being alone. It's one of the words I regularly have
to look up if I haven't used it for a while. A mnemonic is no use to
me; I'd quickly forget it.
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Herts, England
Christian Weisgerber
> You have the water in the wrong half 8-) Of course, I lived in Eau
> Claire for many years, so it's easy to remember "eau =oh"
The neighborhood in Calgary?
*clicks on geo coordinates in Wikipedia article*
Wait, that's not where Eau Claire is.
*click, click*
Huh? The coordinates in the body are correct, the ones in the
infobox are wrong.
*looks at history*
'bots gone wild.
*edit*
There you go, all fixed now.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de
Ian Dalziel
You need something to help you remember the mnemonic, then.
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Ian D
Bertel Lund Hansen
> Can anybody suggest a spelling mnemonic for "bureau". I have to look
> it up every time I use it, which will get embarrassing soon as I start
> working for the local CAB next decade.
Take "bureal" and change the l to a u.
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Bertel, Denmark
Peter Moylan
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Robin Bignall
Thuvia should work, leading me to Edgar Rice Bureaus.
the Omrud
Hmmm. Edgar Rice Bureaux, Shirley?
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David
R H Draney
I'm getting a sense of Dejah Vu....r
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Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
Reinhold {Rey} Aman
What a fuckin' asshole.
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Arcadian Rises
> *Busybody* Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
>
> > jgharston skrev:
>
> >> Can anybody suggest a spelling mnemonic for "bureau". I have to
> >> look it up every time I use it, which will get embarrassing soon
> >> as I start working for the local CAB next decade.
>
> > Take "bureal" and change the l to a u.
>
> That's a REALLY, REALLY, REALLY *STUPID* suggestion!
> What a fuckin' asshole.
You're exaggerating.
Another suggestion:
Take the "bureav" and change the "v" to a "u" according to one of our
Latin pronounciation threads.
Reinhold {Rey} Aman
>
> Reinhold {Rey} Aman wrote:
>> *Busybody* Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
>>> jgharston skrev:
>>
>>>> Can anybody suggest a spelling mnemonic for "bureau". I have to
>>>> look it up every time I use it, which will get embarrassing soon
>>>> as I start working for the local CAB next decade.
>>
>>> Take "bureal" and change the l to a u.
>>
>> That's a REALLY, REALLY, REALLY *STUPID* suggestion!
>> What a fuckin' asshole.
>
> You're exaggerating.
>
*STUPID* or that Busybody Bertel is a fuckin' asshole?
>
> Another suggestion:
> Take the "bureav" and change the "v" to a "u" according to
> one of our Latin pronounciation threads.
>
BTW, it's "pronVnciation."
Arcadian Rises
> Arcadian Rises wrote:
>
> > Reinhold {Rey} Aman wrote:
> >> *Busybody* Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:
> >>> jgharston skrev:
>
> >>>> Can anybody suggest a spelling mnemonic for "bureau". I have to
> >>>> look it up every time I use it, which will get embarrassing soon
> >>>> as I start working for the local CAB next decade.
>
> >>> Take "bureal" and change the l to a u.
>
> >> That's a REALLY, REALLY, REALLY *STUPID* suggestion!
> >> What a fuckin' asshole.
>
> > You're exaggerating.
>
> Exaggerating what? That his suggestion is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY
> *STUPID* or that Busybody Bertel is a fuckin' asshole?
I thought I could top that, but apparently you think I
misoverestimated (remember w?) my capacities.
>
> > Another suggestion:
> > Take the "bureav" and change the "v" to a "u" according to
> > one of our Latin pronounciation threads.
>
> Brilliant!
> BTW, it's "pronVnciation."
Picky, picky!
To be thorougly accurate, it should be "bvreav".
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No need for mnemonics. Amplifying Hansen, I'd say just follow history.
People retreated behind a curtain-like piece of burlap to do desk
work, a burel, diminutive of bure/burlap, then comes the sound change
with darkening of the -el, followed by sound change yet again to long
o. Meanwhile it had become the name of the room and the desk. Then the
Angliche, as is their wont, changed the nature of the thing by making
a chest of drawers out of a desk. Complicated? Maybe, but you get more
for the same price.
Pierre Jelenc
No beauty in the bureau
Pierre
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Lanarcam
you could try : give the "bure au moine". (give the robe to the monk).
You could also think of the original pronounciation of "eau" (water)
in French : ee a u. (triphtong).
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The first letter of each word except to makes the word bureau