I have an alarm clock that they say is illegal to use in a cemetery, because they claim it wakes the dead. It’s got 3 settings, the loudest is 120 db. Believe me it’s LOUD. I can be 100 feet away and hear it.
But to have 2 140db horns, that’ got hear the ears.
He needs to market that…I have 3, set 5 minutes apart, on opposite sides of the room, and I have a strobe light set to a lamp timer. Sometimes I still oversleep. A few years ago I slept through a lightning hit on an electric transformer outside my window. I never heard the explosion, the screaming in the house or the sirens outside.
If it is not patented I would get on this.
ahhh a typical Kipkay hack… excellent, probably on par or better with the fire-alarm-clock. I still think that pneumatic bed can probably give you whiplash bouncing you up and down.
Soldering. Solder.
SOUL-duh-ring. SOUL-duh.
‘Soddering’ sounds like punitive buggery.
“When they caught him messing with their wheels, the gay bikers gave him a right soddering.”
Maffu – I understand your concern. Didn’t know we say it differently in the colonies. I’ll never be able to heat two wires together again without thinking about being punitively buggered.
Now can you clear up the problem with the word lieutenant? WTF?
Hey Maffu, what’s with the word “colonel”?
Hey, I didn’t want to start an accent war! 😀
Actually DJ, I’m far more comfortable with the American pronunciation of lieutenant than the English way.
Making up sounds that aren’t even implied – as per our “lef-ten-ant” – is a crime worthy of a good soldering.
While I may be mildly perturbed by a silent letter here and there though, I can understand how they came to be left out over time. Soddering on the other hand doesn’t seem to follow the expected pattern of pronunciation if the L had become silent. Or not to my (currently drink-addled) mind anyway. I had to listen a couple of times before I realised what he was saying.
As for Colonel, well, it goes back to what I said above – you can pretty much hear where the L has dropped out over time, particularly if you think of how it would have originally sounded given its French origins.
Don’t get me started on the US pronunciation of aluminium though. :0)
Hahaha! That was my next query! (No I don’t mean your gay bikers.)
I’m too impatient to wait to discuss it at the BABBQ, but I found this interesting site: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
I suggest Sam Elliot’s reading of the words in question as the official pronunciation.
That’s a very informative article DJ, and an interesting site too (in a thoroughly propeller head sort of way).
There goes my day…
I have an alarm clock that they say is illegal to use in a cemetery, because they claim it wakes the dead. It’s got 3 settings, the loudest is 120 db. Believe me it’s LOUD. I can be 100 feet away and hear it.
But to have 2 140db horns, that’ got hear the ears.
He needs to market that…I have 3, set 5 minutes apart, on opposite sides of the room, and I have a strobe light set to a lamp timer. Sometimes I still oversleep. A few years ago I slept through a lightning hit on an electric transformer outside my window. I never heard the explosion, the screaming in the house or the sirens outside.
If it is not patented I would get on this.
ahhh a typical Kipkay hack… excellent, probably on par or better with the fire-alarm-clock. I still think that pneumatic bed can probably give you whiplash bouncing you up and down.
Soldering. Solder.
SOUL-duh-ring. SOUL-duh.
‘Soddering’ sounds like punitive buggery.
“When they caught him messing with their wheels, the gay bikers gave him a right soddering.”
Maffu – I understand your concern. Didn’t know we say it differently in the colonies. I’ll never be able to heat two wires together again without thinking about being punitively buggered.
Now can you clear up the problem with the word lieutenant? WTF?
Hey Maffu, what’s with the word “colonel”?
Hey, I didn’t want to start an accent war! 😀
Actually DJ, I’m far more comfortable with the American pronunciation of lieutenant than the English way.
Making up sounds that aren’t even implied – as per our “lef-ten-ant” – is a crime worthy of a good soldering.
While I may be mildly perturbed by a silent letter here and there though, I can understand how they came to be left out over time. Soddering on the other hand doesn’t seem to follow the expected pattern of pronunciation if the L had become silent. Or not to my (currently drink-addled) mind anyway. I had to listen a couple of times before I realised what he was saying.
As for Colonel, well, it goes back to what I said above – you can pretty much hear where the L has dropped out over time, particularly if you think of how it would have originally sounded given its French origins.
Don’t get me started on the US pronunciation of aluminium though. :0)
Hahaha! That was my next query! (No I don’t mean your gay bikers.)
I’m too impatient to wait to discuss it at the BABBQ, but I found this interesting site: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
I suggest Sam Elliot’s reading of the words in question as the official pronunciation.
That’s a very informative article DJ, and an interesting site too (in a thoroughly propeller head sort of way).
There goes my day…