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Tue May 21 01:28:46 1991
Date: Tue, 21 May 91 01:28:12 EDT
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From: ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU (Ed Russell)
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
Subject: an old poem
Message-ID: <91140.091928ESR@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 20 May 91 17:19:28 GMT
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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HINTS ON PRONUNCIATION
I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, laugh and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead-
For goodness sake don't call it "deed"!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).
A moth is not a moth in mother
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose--
Just look them up -- and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart --
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive.
I'd mastered it when I was five!
T.S.W.
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From clarinews@clarinet.com Mon May 20 17:10:33 1991
From: clarinews@clarinet.com (Dave Barry)
Newsgroups: clari.feature.dave_barry
Subject: WHICH WISCONSIN COMMUNITY DESERVES TITLE ``UFO CAPITAL OF THE WORLD''?
Date: 19 May 91 00:06:14 GMT
ACategory: lifestyle
Slugword: barry
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ANPA: Wc: 897; Id: z0346; Sel: tw--q; Adate: 05/19-1aed
DAVE BARRY
WHICH WISCONSIN COMMUNITY DESERVES TITLE ``UFO CAPITAL OF THE
WORLD''?
Before I get to this week's topic -- which, as you have probably
already guessed, is deciding which Wisconsin community deserves the
title ``UFO Capital of the World'' -- I need to make a correction. I have
received a letter from Mr. William Wagner of Utica, N.Y., who informs me
that my recent column about tipping contained -- brace yourself -- a
FACTUAL ERROR. Specifically, Mr. Wagner informs me that I was incorrect
when I stated that ``savoir faire'' is French for ``ear size,'' as in
the sentence ``Prince Charles and President Bush are men of great savoir
faire.''
Mr. Wagner's letter states: ``Your translation ... told your readers
with French-speaking background that your research and preparation is
seriously deficient. A formal correction in your next article should be
enough to correct this serious and embarrassing blunder on your part.''
Mr. Wagner goes on to observe that my error ``merely confirms most
French natives' opinions of Americans as ethnocentric, apathetic, and
ignorant fools bumbling around with no real knowledge of what they are
doing.''
The letter ends: ``Sincerely, Someone With Savoir Faire, William
Wagner.''
Needless to say I feel like a total Mr. Potato Head (or, as the
French say, ``un total Monsieur Tete de la Pomme de Terre'') about this.
I deeply regret the error, and I wish to make the following formal
correction: ``Savoir faire'' does NOT mean ``ear size.'' It means ``nose
hair,'' as in the expression: ``Garcon! What are these savoir faires
doing in my soup?'' Or: ``That William Wagner of Utica, N.Y., certainly
has a lot of savoir faire!''
Speaking of extraterrestrials, I imagine you are as concerned as I am
about this Wisconsin UFO thing. I became aware of it when alert reader
Michael Jones sent me an article from Wisconsin Tourism Development
magazine, listing the slogans used by various Wisconsin communities to
attract tourists. These include (I am not making these slogans up):
Babcock -- ``Where the Last Passenger Pigeon Was Killed''
Cumberland -- ``Rutabaga Capital''
Ellsworth -- ``Cheese Curd Capital of Wisconsin''
Hurley -- ``Where Highway 51 Ends and the Fun Begins''
Kewaskum -- ``Gateway to the Kettle Moraine''
Mercer -- ``Loon Capital of the World''
Sauk Prairie -- ``Cow Chip Throwing Capital''
Reading these slogans, we are reminded once again of exactly what
makes small-town, heartland America so wonderful: hallucinogens in the
cheese curd.
No, really, these are all wonderful places that you, as a tourist,
will want to check out. You should also go to Bear Creek, Wis., which
boasts that it is ``Home of the World's Largest Sauerkraut Plant.'' I
called the plant, which is operated by Flanagan Brothers Inc., and spoke
to Vice President David Flanagan, who told me that every year Flanagan
Brothers processes 40,000 TONS of cabbage, resulting in what the French
call ``kraut de sauer out de wazoo.'' Mr. Flanagan told me that visitors
are welcome to the plant and can get free samples, so you will
definitely want to forget about Disney World and take the family to Bear
Creek. You can use this trip as a motivational tool (``If you kids don't
behave, we're not going to go to the World's Largest Sauerkraut
Plant!'').
And you will not want to miss Sparta, Wis., which bills itself as
``Home of the Big Fiberglass Animals.'' These are made by a company
called F.A.S.T., for ``Fiberglass Animals, Shapes and Trademarks.'' I
spoke to F.A.S.T. President Jerry Vettrus, who told me that these
animals are used by businesses to attract visitors. ``Once, for a
restaurant, we made a giant chicken holding a root beer and a
cheeseburger,'' he said. ``That was one of the more unique ones.'' Even
as we were speaking, Mr. Vettrus said, he had a truck delivering a giant
fiberglass snail (or ``escargot de glass de fiber'') to California,
where it will presumably attract giant fiberglass French people.
So anyway, while scrutinizing the list of Wisconsin slogans, I
noticed that TWO communities -- Belleville and Elmwood -- both claim to be
``UFO Capital of the World.'' So I called Elmwood and spoke to the
village president, Larry Feiler, and he told me they chose their slogan
a few years ago when ``a fellow proposed to raise $50 million to build a
landing site for UFOs here.'' Feiler said the man chose Elmwood because
``there were a lot of UFO sightings here, so he wouldn't have to educate
the people about UFOs.''
Feiler said the landing-site plan made Elmwood ``very famous.''
``It kind of went international,'' he said. ``Some people from
Elmwood were flown out to New York to be on the `Geraldo' show.''
Elmwood was also on ``Oprah.''
Next I called Belleville and spoke to Bob Belle, former president of
the Belleville Improvement Group, who told me they adopted their slogan
a few years ago after a UFO was sighted in the area, and every year they
have a UFO parade around Halloween. I asked him if there were any plans
to build a UFO landing site in Belleville, and he said, ``I think our
land is too expensive.''
So there you have it: Two communities, Belleville and Elmwood, both
with solid claims to be ``UFO Capital of the World.'' This is a tough
call to make, but I would have to say, after weighing all the evidence,
that the title rightfully belongs to: Lodi, Wis., whose slogan is:
``Home of Susie the Duck.''
(C) 1991 THE MIAMI HERALD
DISTRIBUTED BY TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES, INC.
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