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[gameshowcrazy]

Fedya, on 18 June 2012 - 08:31 PM, said:

Am I the only one who likes liverwurst?

someone has to

[gameshowcrazy]

clemon79, on 18 June 2012 - 03:49 PM, said:

Kevin Prather, on 18 June 2012 - 03:35 PM, said:

Goes good with gazpacho, I bet.

Requires no adornments. Rye bread. Mustard. Ship it. At MOST a pickle in there somewhere.

gotta have provolone in there

[Jay Temple]

Today one of the items in the main game was "wharf". 1986 was a year too soon, but I briefly of Lt. Worf from ST:TNG, which brings to mind some potentially difficult decisions for the judge. I know they've cuckoo'd people for saying "whether" in describing "weather," but the one time I can remember it, the person clearly pronounced it as "we-th'r". I can't recall an instance where someone went for a different word that began with "hw" instead of "w" or vice versa. Does anyone recall seeing a case like that?

[TLEberle]

Jay Temple, on 19 June 2012 - 04:24 PM, said:

the person clearly pronounced it as "we-th'r".

There's two pronunciations for that?

[Kevin Prather]

Pyramid deals in sounds. If you say "It's that great big thing in the street" when describing a "grate", you get the bird. Same here. That's not to say you couldn't describe Lt. Worf instead of describing a wharf.

[Jimmy Owen]

Kevin Prather, on 19 June 2012 - 04:55 PM, said:

Pyramid deals in sounds. If you say "It's that great big thing in the street" when describing a "grate", you get the bird. Same here. That's not to say you couldn't describe Lt. Worf instead of describing a wharf.

If you are a receiver those clever tricks don't help because the word you're describing doesn't fit the category.  "Fisherman's"...."Wharf" fits, "The guy on Star Trek" does not.  I think this has been discussed here before, but those tricks are detrimental when taken in context of the overall category.  Hairy/harry, ant/aunt, right/write, may sound the same, but they are not the same word.

[clemon79]

TLEberle, on 19 June 2012 - 04:39 PM, said:

There's two pronunciations for that?