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Call Forge wrote:
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>> Is "fogling" actually easy to figure out?
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dvt wrote:
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> I thought so. Just remove the f, pronounce it, then put the f back on.

That presumes you know how to pronounce "ogling."

Alas, this is not such a sure thing, I often hear people even on NPR mispronounce it as "Aw-gling"
instead of "Oh-gling."

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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:10:14 -0500, dvt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is "fogling" actually easy to figure out?
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>I thought so. Just remove the f, pronounce it, then put the f back on.

Pronouncing names is, apparently, not that easy. You can't just pronounce the parts you know and
assemble them; you have to worry about unknown sounds, miswritten letters, etc. Hence why "Onanian"
is NEVER "Onanian" but rather "Ohh...Onnn...Onnn"[this is where I cut them off], and hence why
"Alves" becomes "Al-vezz", "elvis", and once even "oofluh".

Written, nobody can ever believe that there's so many of the letter 'n' in "Onanian", and they
generally make some of them into 'r' or 'h', or some random letter like 'v'.
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Rick Onanian
 
Sheldon Brown wrote:
> Call Forge wrote:
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>>> Is "fogling" actually easy to figure out?
>>
> dvt wrote:
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>> I thought so. Just remove the f, pronounce it, then put the f back on.
>
> That presumes you know how to pronounce "ogling."
>
> Alas, this is not such a sure thing, I often hear people even on NPR mispronounce it as "Aw-gling"
> instead of "Oh-gling."

Aren't you used to that in Massachusetts? :)

Bill "gonna go pak the cah and then do some fo-gelling" S.
 
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