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Women's Rights & Issues

EarnestPutz

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1. You've got to be kidding me.

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 02:50 PM

Oct 2017

Which branch of the English Speaking Gestapo has declared
that Samhain could be pronounced in any of five different ways
but the one way that makes the most sense is somehow verboten.
Does it occur to the writer that, with that much ambiguity about
the pronunciation of an obscure word, that one could insist that
"ham sandwich" is just as reasonable?

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Blessed Samhain, Happy New Year [View all] niyad Oct 2017 OP

You've got to be kidding me. EarnestPutz Oct 2017 #1

actually, one need not pronounce it at all. niyad Oct 2017 #2

Samhain is a Gaelic word. Staph Oct 2017 #3

Do you get mad when people talk about worcestershire sauce too? How about people Squinch Oct 2017 #4

Projection? EarnestPutz Nov 2017 #5

You seem upset. Squinch Nov 2017 #6