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Is it Butt Naked or Buck Naked??
Well, inquiring minds need to know. With this incredibly shitty weather, I have to be silly, no serious stuff today. Also I have to go to work shortly so no time to get into one of my rambles....
So, is it Butt or Buck and while we are at it, I have a few more--sort of along the line of, ‘you say TO-ma-TOE, I say to-MA-toe, stuff…
Is it (as in the country), CHILL-E or CHILL-LAY??
Is it (as in the dickhead former VP), Chaaney or is it ChEEney - Chris Matthews insists it is ChEEney…
Is it ComPAIRable or is it Comp-er-able
Is it PEE-onies or is it PE-OWNIES............
There are many more but, that, my friends, is all I’ve got today.....
If you live in Massachusetts, bone up on the backstroke cause we are going to be needing to know how!!
Ciao’
LOL Cyn! I have my oars ready and waiting, and the water pump on stand by. So far so good tho. No flood in the basement as of yet!
As far as I understand it was originally butt naked and was then changed to buck naked, as not to offend anyone’s sensibilities.
I hear chil-lay when I have talked to any of my Mexican/Spanish friends in Cali.
OK, had to look this one up and then try and just say it like I would, (confused myself) not sure how I say it now lol. It comes from the word Paeonia, so I guess the correct way would be niether of the two but, Pay-own-ee??
and I really don’t care about the dickhead to even consider if I say his name correctly!!
Buck is to naked as butt is to ugly.
I pretty much agree with justme on the pronunciation of Chile, though it might actually be closer to CHEE-lay.
As I recall (vaguely), Darth Cheney originally pronounced it as CHEE-nee, but surrendered to the more common pronunciation of CHAY-nee. The AAA ballpark in Tacoma is definitely CHEE-nee.
COMP-par-able, definitely.
BTW, did you know that Carnegie is actually pronounced car-NEG-ee, not CARN-egg-ee? Pittsburghers get it right (and they should know best, shouldn’t they?), even if New Yorkers don’t.
Great J and N!! I knew someone would feel like playing. N-Funny you should mention Carnegie-- one of the manufacturers my boss reps for has that name and occasionally someone will call and ask me all about car-NEG-ee fabric! And so now I know why!
On another note, will someone go fetch a duckboat in the city please and bring it to me here at work? My poor little car is about to float away I think, along with the building I am working in. It is horrendous here...........Hopefully everyone reading this is not waterlogged yet.
Yes, if you speak Spanish, you say Chee-lay.
I think butt naked was a later alternative to buck naked which, according to a number of resources, was a common term-of-the-day reference to the people who ran around buck naked, ie, male African-American slaves and American Indians. (A couple of resources claim the term originated in the southern Gulf states where the weather can be oppressively hot and clothing could easily be optional and breechcloths were sufficient, leaving one bare butt nekkid.) One didn’t necessarily want to run about like a slave or a dreadful savage if one could avoid it. Early Americans weren’t drunk on the milk of human kindness. Well...modern ones, either, for that matter…
I’ve never heard of a Pe-OWNIE before. Is that a New England thing? People in New England have been slaughtering the English language for generations apparently. Four online dictionaries and one encyclopedia confirm that the word is pronounced pee’-ə-nee.
Darth what’s his name....Old Scratch works.
I may be the only one in New England who can say so, but I have NO LEAKS! No Floods! At least, not so far....
Hope you aren’t speaking too soon, Kate…
Speaking of (mispronounced) Carnegie Hall, my nephew made his debut there Sunday night. Well, it was him and about a hundred of his fellow members of the Garfield HS Symphony Orchestra, but still…
Well that’s pretty cool, N. That must have been thrilling. Not many people can say they’ve performed at Carnegie Hall!
I’m so done with leaks. Don’t want any more and I’d better not have any more after the chunk of change I shelled out this weekend to fix things. But the amount of rain and wind we’re getting today is ridiculous. The street looks like a river. My neighbor’s sump pump hasn’t stopped all day.
I always say ‘pee’-ə-nee” but have heard it all of the other ways. They are, hands down, my favorite flower - well maybe next to Lilacs! I had a few Peony bushes --all from my parents’ house that were destroyed this past fall when my apple tree blew over on them. A story for another day!