Toe-may-toe, Toe-mah-toe?

[Terry Christian]

Laika:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika

Soviet space _dog_. My error. But that's the one.

 

[Truzi]

(Donning bullet-proof vest):
You mean that German camera is not pronounced lot-kuh (ˈlɑːt.kə)?

 

[E. von Hoegh]

(Donning bullet-proof vest):
You mean that German camera is not pronounced lot-kuh (ˈlɑːt.kə)?

I thought "Latka" was one of Andy Kaufmann's more intolerably annoying characters?
Actually, the good German camera is pronounced "lin_hof"

 

[Alan Gales]

Actually, the good German camera is pronounced "lin_hof"

Really? I pronounce it un-uff-ford-uble.

I think I spell it wrong too. My wife spells it d-i-v-o-r-c-e.

 

[E. von Hoegh]

Alan, I have one word for you - b-a-t-c-h-e-l-o-r; and one emoticon -

 

[Alan Gales]

That would be ruff. I mean, who would make me a sandwich?

 

[Chris Lange]

Alan, I have one word for you - b-a-t-c-h-e-l-o-r; and one emoticon -

That would be ruff. I mean, who would make me a sandwich?

Or give you spelling lessons?

B-a-c-h-e-l-o-r...

 

[Dr Croubie]

I say Sow-knee, so does everyone I've met.
Except my mum, probably the only person in the world that pronounces Sony different to everyone else.
She insists on saying Soh-knee with a short o, "because it's japanese" (nevermind that she's never actually learnt japanese and was only there once in 1967 when she got her Spotmatic).

(I've also tried pointing out that Sony actually has a Latin-root 'Sonus' (Sow-nus) meaning 'Sound', but that won't change her mind either)