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On How To Pronounce Your Minister of Cartography's Last Name

Post by Bill3000 »

Let this be a lesson to you all.

Do NOT pronounce your minster's last name like this:

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DO pronounce your minister's last name like this, but with a D:

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As a fun fact, my name is W. George Dusch.

Next person to pronounce my last name wrong becomes this banana. :archy
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HAHAHAHAHAHA BARON DUBYA HAHAHAHAHA
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Post by H4773r 3lfs0n »

thats.................kinda............. creepy


yet not at all strange around here....

pronunciation dully noted
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*snickers*
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Oh, so it's pronounced Dusch, not Douche, OK.
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Post by Chrimigules »

Not everyone has trouble with your name. The main vowel is followed by multiple consonants, while Douche is followed by a single consonant and then a silent e, which of course means it's long while the vowel in the name is short. Duh!

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No, I know from experience that roughly everyone has trouble with my name.
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Well, if it's any consolation, I thought it was pronounced "Dutch" for quite some time :)
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I allways thought it was pronounced
"three-thowz-and"
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Hahaha!
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I'll admit. I also, first time I saw it, mistook it for Dutch.

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On How to Pronounce Your Minister of Cartography's Last Name

Post by hypatias mom »

Bill, thanks for the pronunciation guide. I have also had people mispronounce my last name all my life. I really thought your name was pronounced as the German word for German--Deutch (doytch). Now we will all say it right. :)

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Will we?Mwahahahahahahahaha! Just kidding, we'll all say it right...*snickers.*
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Working on it kiddo. :)
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Kiddo? I resent that. But that's freedom of speech for you, someone's bound to resent it..
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Silly Baldwin, there is no such thing as freedom of speech here.
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Errr....hehehehehe....silly...Bill...*bolts out of the room*
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Post by Kaiser Alejian II »

*rotfl*

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Post by Ryan »

I've been pronouncing it as Deutsch for seven years. I ain't changin it now buddy. :P
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Post by Kaiser Alejian II »

Same here, as hard as I try. Bill Doosch is how I say it before I correct myself.

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Post by andelarion »

You know, "Dusch" in Swedish, with the same pronunciation and spelling as your name, means "shower" :)

But I always pronounced it in my mind so that it would rhyme with "hush"

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As that is what it means, I'm not suprised. :p
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What did *your* ancestors do then. :o

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And for the new Minister it is...

"Day-vid Bek-ford"
"Kong-glaysh-heeo Guys-stes-krank"
or
"Daf-fit Berg-sdrum-fort"
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Can I call you Bill?

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Why would yowant to do that?
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So we can stuff you up the chimney...we'll smoke the monster out!!
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wour....wired.

or maybe weird

or drewi
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Where's my lighter....

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