New Orlee-yuns
Aug 29th 2012, 3:06 pm
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Re: New Orlee-yuns
Very good. However, its one of those that could be said a few different ways San Y-seed-row, San Uh-seed-row. Well not correctly said, but depending on how you pronounce the letters, I suppose.
Aug 29th 2012, 3:10 pm
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Re: New Orlee-yuns
I had considered a consonant 'Y' as well. I may never have to say that one for the rest of my life, though.
Aug 29th 2012, 3:50 pm
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Aug 29th 2012, 3:54 pm
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Re: New Orlee-yuns
We'd been eating at El Pollo Loco a couple of times before we found out we were actually eating at El Poyo Loco - oops!
Aug 29th 2012, 3:58 pm
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Aug 29th 2012, 4:33 pm
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Re: New Orlee-yuns
) she had a very preconceived notion that she wasn't going to like it.
Aug 29th 2012, 4:34 pm
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Re: New Orlee-yuns
That was what was so funny with my mil, last June. She really couldn't throw together the whole "El Pollo Loco" trio, so she came up with "El Pollow Low Low" Anyway, she didn't appreciate us taking her there because she knows she does not like Mexican food. Even though we took her to a few different "taquerias" (besides the El Pollow Low Low ) she had a very preconceived notion that she wasn't going to like it.
) she had a very preconceived notion that she wasn't going to like it.
Aug 29th 2012, 5:17 pm
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Re: New Orlee-yuns
That was what was so funny with my mil, last June. She really couldn't throw together the whole "El Pollo Loco" trio, so she came up with "El Pollow Low Low" Anyway, she didn't appreciate us taking her there because she knows she does not like Mexican food. Even though we took her to a few different "taquerias" (besides the El Pollow Low Low ) she had a very preconceived notion that she wasn't going to like it.
) she had a very preconceived notion that she wasn't going to like it.
Aug 29th 2012, 7:31 pm
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Re: New Orlee-yuns
A woman I work with is from Liberia originally, she was telling me a story the other day about when she first cam over and was ordering food from Popeyes. She unknowingly asked for Jalapenos instead of 'halapenos' and the whole line of people looked at her like she was mad 
Aug 29th 2012, 7:35 pm
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Re: New Orlee-yuns
A woman I work with is from Liberia originally, she was telling me a story the other day about when she first cam over and was ordering food from Popeyes. She unknowingly asked for Jalapenos instead of 'halapenos' and the whole line of people looked at her like she was mad
But I bet she went back to the SA way of saying it when she went home!
Aug 30th 2012, 12:53 am
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Re: New Orlee-yuns
Place names are tricky, and I frequently get them wrong. I used to pronounce Yosemite to rhyme with marmite.
Aug 30th 2012, 1:37 am
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Re: New Orlee-yuns
We often laugh about UK postal addresses, how long they sometimes are.. when we moved to Boston in 1991, I obviously gave my mother our postal address, as in;
999 Random Road,
Belmont MA 02478
USA
So she writes to me;
999 Random Road,
Belmont
nr. Boston
Massachusetts 02478
USA
999 Random Road,
Belmont MA 02478
USA
So she writes to me;
999 Random Road,
Belmont
nr. Boston
Massachusetts 02478
USA
