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I just posted this as a Q&A:
Mr. Gaiman, my friend and I have a bet going on about correct/common ways to pronounce “buoy.” Would you mind telling us how you pronounce it? (I hope you do not mind me asking you this here. It would just be very fun to turn to my friend and cite you on the matter. I completely understand if you decide to just ignore this silly message. Thank you very much.)I’m English, with a sort of sloppy version of received pronunciation, so I say something very close to “boy”.
Most Americans pronounce it closer to “boo-ey” (which I discovered as a boy, and not a buoy, listening to the LP of A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To the Forum).
Unless they are advertising soap. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzCe1kxlZm4
Which also does not explain why Americans pronounce “buoyant” as “boyant” and not “boo-ey-ant”
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And then I thought, I wonder what Frankie Howerd sang on the original London version of the line about the “bong of the bell of the booey in the bay”, so I went down to the basement and retrieved the CD and found out.
And I am putting this song up here for the twelve Stephen Sondheim/Frankie Howerd/pronounciation nerds on the whole of the internets who will be as interested in the answer as I was.
This show is going up at Colby College in a week!!! I was really surprised that the Very Hono(u)rable and Amazing Mr. Neil Gaiman posted about it, but it’s an amazing show and I will shamelessly post about how awesome it is going to be (mostly the set, which I helped put together in a short amount of time).
The above video, of a group of teenagers assaulting an unnamed Asian man in Chicago, is violent and may be difficult to watch. There has been little official news coverage of the incident, making much of the information circulating the internet mere conjecture. Despite the lack of details, the video has incited shock and anger across blogs and Reddit. The video was originally posted by the attackers but has since then been taken down. Other users have reuploaded the video with unconfirmed names of the seven assailants. The list contains both Asian and white last names.
Not only am I completely appalled by this, I feel uncontrollable rage at the fact that this hasn’t been looked into further. The fact that kids are still bullied (and to this extent) is outrageous. I want to personally find each and every one of those kids and show them who they should mess with next time: me. Cause then, if it’s me they’re messing with, I have a few things to say: see you in court, get good lawyers otherwise you’re going to be spending the rest of your boring life in jail, and just because you’re acting against your own racial/ethnic group doesn’t make it NOT racism. This is absolutely disgusting. #manupandgrowapair
Why? Because.
Because why? Because because.
I feel like branching out and writing a bit more about what goes on in my daily life and inspirations that I get because that seems like it’s more of a cathartic thing than writing about Korean liquor (though, that is also a very interesting subject).
So.
Writing.
Actually, I’m thinking of going to bed. Sleep is always nice. And I have class tomorrow. So. Sleep, then class.
But, first… washing up and taking contacts out. Yes, that should be done first.
