Tubie or Not Tubie, That Is the Question?

[Sheldon Brown]

Sorry to be a language curmudgeon, but I gotta say I'm appalled to see
people I respect using the infantile term "tubie" in speaking of tubular
tires. "Tubulars," "sew-ups," even "tubs," OK, but "tubies" is beyond
the pale! Have some pride, people!

Sheldon "Curmudging" Brown
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:35:25 -0500, Sheldon Brown
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Sorry to be a language curmudgeon, but I gotta say I'm appalled to see
>people I respect using the infantile term "tubie" in speaking of tubular
>tires. "Tubulars," "sew-ups," even "tubs," OK, but "tubies" is beyond
>the pale! Have some pride, people!
>
>Sheldon "Curmudging" Brown
>+-----------------------------------------+
>| Man invented language to satisfy his |
>| deep need to complain. -- Lily Tomlin |
>+-----------------------------------------+
> Harris Cyclery, West Newton, Massachusetts
> Phone 617-244-9772 FAX 617-244-1041
> http://harriscyclery.com
> Hard-to-find parts shipped Worldwide
>http://captainbike.com http://sheldonbrown.com

Dear Sheldon,

A further spelling quibble . . .

I can tell how to pronounce "tubies" because that's how the
diminuitive -ies plural of "tube" is formed with a
typewriter. (I doubt that it's supposed to be pronounced as
the plural "tubbies" is pronounced when speaking of more
than one tubby person.)

But at first glance the popular "tubs" looks if it ought to
be pronounced "tuhbs" instead of "toobs"--it looks exactly
like the sort of tubs or vats used in washing.

But I'm not sure which pronunciation is preferred. I think
that people who write "tubs" want us to say "toobs" as a
shortened form of "tubulars", but are afraid to write
"tubes" because it might be confused with inner tubes and
fear that "toobs" would look silly.

I fling this question out in order to--well, as has been
previously discussed:

" . . . seamen have a custom when they meet a Whale to fling
him out an empty Tub, by way of amusement, to divert him
from laying violent hands upon the Ship."

Off now to find the missing "r" in Colonel.

Jonathan Swift

 

[Sheldon Brown]

I griped:

>>Sorry to be a language curmudgeon, but I gotta say I'm appalled to see
>>people I respect using the infantile term "tubie" in speaking of tubular
>>tires. "Tubulars," "sew-ups," even "tubs," OK, but "tubies" is beyond
>>the pale! Have some pride, people!

Carl Fogel wrote:

> But at first glance the popular "tubs" looks if it ought to
> be pronounced "tuhbs" instead of "toobs"--it looks exactly
> like the sort of tubs or vats used in washing.
>
> But I'm not sure which pronunciation is preferred. I think
> that people who write "tubs" want us to say "toobs" as a
> shortened form of "tubulars", but are afraid to write
> "tubes" because it might be confused with inner tubes and
> fear that "toobs" would look silly.

I don't think so. When I see "tubs" in this context, I hear one of
those wonderful North-of-England "u"s, which I can't really compare to
any 'Merican phoneme.

I don't know of any American who says "tubs." That's strictly British
usage.

Sheldon "Imagine John Lennon" Brown
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Harris Cyclery, West Newton, Massachusetts
Phone 617-244-9772 FAX 617-244-1041
http://harriscyclery.com
Hard-to-find parts shipped Worldwide
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>>>
But I'm not sure which pronunciation is preferred.
<<<

Hi, Carl, I was born and raised in England and, as a teenager in the
50's, we pronounced it to rhyme with 'bugs'.

That was back in the days when the 'coolest' bike was a Campy equipped
Claud Butler.

Kind regards.

Lewis.

********

 

[Diablo Scott]

[email protected] wrote:

> Hi, Carl, I was born and raised in England and, as a teenager in the
> 50's, we pronounced it to rhyme with 'bugs'.
>
> That was back in the days when the 'coolest' bike was a Campy equipped
> Claud Butler.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> Lewis.
>
> ********
>

Yeah Limey, but when you say "bugs" with your accent it probably rhymes
with "boogs" in mine.


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On 7 Feb 2005 14:27:41 -0800, [email protected] wrote:

>>>>
>But I'm not sure which pronunciation is preferred.
><<<
>
>Hi, Carl, I was born and raised in England and, as a teenager in the
>50's, we pronounced it to rhyme with 'bugs'.
>
>That was back in the days when the 'coolest' bike was a Campy equipped
>Claud Butler.
>
>Kind regards.
>
>Lewis.
>
>********

Dear Lewis,

Aha! I was wrong--"tuhbs" is the pronunciation.

Some of you ride in clubs on tubs to pubs as long as neither
brake rubs, fearing no snubs from any clincher rider who
pinch-flats amidst the shrubs when he stubs the toes of his
hubs?

A friend confessed yesterday that he thought that the
British "whinge" was just a dyslexic or Chaucerian
mis-spelling of "whigne" for "whine" until a kindly
expatriate corrected his pronunciation.

Carl Fogel

 

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 14:40:33 -0800, Diablo Scott
<[email protected]> wrote:

>[email protected] wrote:
>
>> Hi, Carl, I was born and raised in England and, as a teenager in the
>> 50's, we pronounced it to rhyme with 'bugs'.
>>
>> That was back in the days when the 'coolest' bike was a Campy equipped
>> Claud Butler.
>>
>> Kind regards.
>>
>> Lewis.
>>
>> ********
>>
>
>Yeah Limey, but when you say "bugs" with your accent it probably rhymes
>with "boogs" in mine.

Dear Diablo,

Oh, dear, you may be right!

That might be the kewelest Clood Bootler bahcycle!

It's hard for me to remember that not everyone is blessed
with the nasal Mid-Western twang whose pure roots are
watered in the well of English undefiled that feeds the
Arkansas, whose terminal -s- is a -w-, where hand towels are
called warsh rags to rhyme with marsh hags and the
Purgatoire River is known as the Picketwire.

Carl Fogel

 

[Ted]

> Hi, Carl, I was born and raised in England and, as a teenager in the
> 50's, we pronounced it to rhyme with 'bugs'.
>
> That was back in the days when the 'coolest' bike was a Campy equipped
> Claud Butler.
>
> Kind regards.
>
> Lewis.
>
> ********

How on earth does a "b" rhyme with a "g", even in England?

--
Ted Bennett
Portland, OR

 

[Werehatrack]

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:45:08 -0700, [email protected] may have
said:

>A friend confessed yesterday that he thought that the
>British "whinge" was just a dyslexic or Chaucerian
>mis-spelling of "whigne" for "whine" until a kindly
>expatriate corrected his pronunciation.

The pronunciation of things in English is not always intuitive...

http://www.dreadgazebo.com/eric.html

The Eric of the story was neither the first nor the last person to be
under the misapprehension that "gazebo" was pronounced "gaze bow".

--
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Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

 

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On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:40:48 GMT, Ted
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
>> Hi, Carl, I was born and raised in England and, as a teenager in the
>> 50's, we pronounced it to rhyme with 'bugs'.
>>
>> That was back in the days when the 'coolest' bike was a Campy equipped
>> Claud Butler.
>>
>> Kind regards.
>>
>> Lewis.
>>
>> ********
>
>How on earth does a "b" rhyme with a "g", even in England?

Dear Ted,

Watch my smoke!

I want a hero: an uncommon want,
When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan . . .

Could never make a memory so fine as
That which adorn'd the brain of Donna Inez. . .

And then, by the advice of some old ladies,
She sent her son to be shipp'd off from Cadiz. . .

Let not a monument give you or me hopes,
Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops . . .

Let's see . . .

Fogel, mogul, ogle, boggle, hornswoggle . . .

Nope, that one's too tough for me--I can't even rhyme
Manfred or Sardanapaulus.

George Byron

 

[Jay Beattie]

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:40:48 GMT, Ted
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >
> >> Hi, Carl, I was born and raised in England and, as a
teenager in the
> >> 50's, we pronounced it to rhyme with 'bugs'.
> >>
> >> That was back in the days when the 'coolest' bike was a
Campy equipped
> >> Claud Butler.
> >>
> >> Kind regards.
> >>
> >> Lewis.
> >>
> >> ********
> >
> >How on earth does a "b" rhyme with a "g", even in England?
>
> Dear Ted,
>
> Watch my smoke!
>
> I want a hero: an uncommon want,
> When every year and month sends forth a new one,
> Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
> The age discovers he is not the true one;
> Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
> I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan . . .
>
> Could never make a memory so fine as
> That which adorn'd the brain of Donna Inez. . .
>
> And then, by the advice of some old ladies,
> She sent her son to be shipp'd off from Cadiz. . .
>
> Let not a monument give you or me hopes,
> Since not a pinch of dust remains of Cheops . . .
>
> Let's see . . .
>
> Fogel, mogul, ogle, boggle, hornswoggle . . .
>
> Nope, that one's too tough for me--I can't even rhyme
> Manfred or Sardanapaulus.
>
> George Byron

Don't listen to those folks from Arkansas, Ted. If we were as
confused as them, we would have named our fair state
Arwashington. At least we had the good sense to come up with
something original. -- Jay Beattie.

 

[Werehatrack]

I have long held the opinion that more often than not, "poetry" is
just "pottery" misspelled.

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I agree! Let's just call them singles, as they're supposed to be

Regards,

Suzy (ocker)

 

[Dave Reckoning]

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:40:48 GMT, Ted

> Let's see . . .
>
> Fogel, mogul, ogle, boggle, hornswoggle . . .
>
> Nope, that one's too tough for me--I can't even rhyme
> Manfred or Sardanapaulus.
>
> George Byron

There once was rim skin named Tubie
Who's name did confuse Dave the nubie
....


Dave

 

[Mark Janeba]

Sheldon Brown wrote:

> Sorry to be a language curmudgeon, but I gotta say I'm appalled to see
> people I respect using the infantile term "tubie" in speaking of tubular
> tires. "Tubulars," "sew-ups," even "tubs," OK, but "tubies" is beyond
> the pale! Have some pride, people!
>
> Sheldon "Curmudging" Brown

I could always revert to the slang of the person who instructed me in
the fine art of tubular repair, and refer to "blow ups" (rhymes with
"sew ups").

Mark Janeba

 

[Rob Wade]

[email protected] wrote:

> It's hard for me to remember that not everyone is blessed
> with the nasal Mid-Western twang whose pure roots are
> watered in the well of English undefiled that feeds the
> Arkansas, whose terminal -s- is a -w-, where hand towels are
> called warsh rags to rhyme with marsh hags and the
> Purgatoire River is known as the Picketwire.

If you evah make your way to Rhode Island....

If anyone ever asks "djeetyet?"

Be sure to ask for a bowl or cup of chowdah with your gaggahs.

You might even want to try a grindah.

Don'tchoo evah even try smot remahks either.

In Woonsocket, not only do you "pahk the cah", but you do it "side by
each wit the uddahs"

In Woonsocket, a Dynamite is a kind of grindah.

The best place for food is "The Hill"

"I'm goin' down to the spa" doesn't mean you're going to get a workout
or facial.

And remember, there are 3 kinds of clams. Quahogs, Steamers, and Little
Necks. There's a 4'th kind, called Cherry Stones (baby quahogs), but
they're illegal. If you're snooty and blue blood, Quahogs are Ko-hogs.
If you're not, it's kwa-hogs.

And no, we don't have accents here. Everyone else does.

--
BMO

 

[Boyle M. Owl]

[email protected] wrote:

> It's hard for me to remember that not everyone is blessed
> with the nasal Mid-Western twang whose pure roots are
> watered in the well of English undefiled that feeds the
> Arkansas, whose terminal -s- is a -w-, where hand towels are
> called warsh rags to rhyme with marsh hags and the
> Purgatoire River is known as the Picketwire.


If you evah make your way to Rhode Island....

If anyone ever asks "djeetyet?"

Be sure to ask for a bowl or cup of chowdah with your gaggahs.

You might even want to try a grindah.

Don'tchoo evah even try smot remahks either.

In Woonsocket, not only do you "pahk the cah", but you do it "side by
each wit the uddahs"

In Woonsocket, a Dynamite is a kind of grindah.

The best place for food is "The Hill"

"I'm goin' down to the spa" doesn't mean you're going to get a workout
or facial.

And remember, there are 3 kinds of clams. Quahogs, Steamers, and Little
Necks. There's a 4'th kind, called Cherry Stones (baby quahogs), but
they're illegal. If you're snooty and blue blood, Quahogs are Ko-hogs.
If you're not, it's kwa-hogs.

And no, we don't have accents here. Everyone else does.

--
BMO

 

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On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:39:22 -0500, "Boyle M. Owl"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>[email protected] wrote:
>
> > It's hard for me to remember that not everyone is blessed
> > with the nasal Mid-Western twang whose pure roots are
> > watered in the well of English undefiled that feeds the
> > Arkansas, whose terminal -s- is a -w-, where hand towels are
> > called warsh rags to rhyme with marsh hags and the
> > Purgatoire River is known as the Picketwire.
>
>
>If you evah make your way to Rhode Island....
>
>If anyone ever asks "djeetyet?"
>
>Be sure to ask for a bowl or cup of chowdah with your gaggahs.
>
>You might even want to try a grindah.
>
>Don'tchoo evah even try smot remahks either.
>
>In Woonsocket, not only do you "pahk the cah", but you do it "side by
>each wit the uddahs"
>
>In Woonsocket, a Dynamite is a kind of grindah.
>
>The best place for food is "The Hill"
>
>"I'm goin' down to the spa" doesn't mean you're going to get a workout
>or facial.
>
>And remember, there are 3 kinds of clams. Quahogs, Steamers, and Little
>Necks. There's a 4'th kind, called Cherry Stones (baby quahogs), but
>they're illegal. If you're snooty and blue blood, Quahogs are Ko-hogs.
> If you're not, it's kwa-hogs.
>
>And no, we don't have accents here. Everyone else does.

Dear Ro--er, Boyle,

Interestingly, your two replies indicate that in your neck
of the woods "Rob Wade" is pronounced "Boyle M. Owl," just
as "Werehatrack" requires a peculiar rustling intonation
south of Ault, Oklahoma.

Carl Fogel

 

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 20:27:57 -0600, Werehatrack
<[email protected]> wrote:

>I have long held the opinion that more often than not, "poetry" is
>just "pottery" misspelled.

Dear Werehatrack,

None answer'd this; but after Silence spake
A Vessel of a more ungainly Make:
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry;
"What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake!"

It's a shame that Pope didn't write those lines.

E. Fitzgerald

 

[A Muzi]

Sheldon Brown wrote:

> Sorry to be a language curmudgeon, but I gotta say I'm appalled to see
> people I respect using the infantile term "tubie" in speaking of tubular
> tires. "Tubulars," "sew-ups," even "tubs," OK, but "tubies" is beyond
> the pale! Have some pride, people!
>
> Sheldon "Curmudging" Brown

A hearty second to that.

--
Andrew Muzi
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