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Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!

by lynx <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 2, 2008 at 12:09 AM

annily wrote:
 
>
> "David Springthorpe" <david.springthorpe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:2tii14h0i4n96fg7n2cpl1lp5rjrqthbju@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Thu, 01 May 2008 02:51:06 GMT, lynx <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> The producers of 'Home and Away' have got the actors pronouncing
>>> 'progress' like Americans do.. PROG-ress instead of pro-GRESS. Duh!
>>> What's next?? will actors be lying on gRASS instead of lawns? drinking
>>> water from faucets instead of taps? why on earth do ppl think it's
cool
>>> or necessary to copy everything the Yanks do and say?!
>>
>> I think you'll find one's a noun, the other's a verb.....
>
> I don't think his phonetic spelling was clear. Perhaps he was 
> referring to the different ways of pronouncing the noun. 
 
Yes. What wasn't clear about it?
 
> We use a long "o", yanks use a short "o", both with stress on the 
> first syllable.
 
Well the Yanks break the word differently. They say 'prog/ress' we say 
'pro/gress'. They add the 'g' to the first part, we put it on the second.
 

 

-- 
rgds,

Pete
=====
http://pw352.blogspot.com/
'I'm not young enough to know everything' -Oscar Wilde
 




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stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
lynx <none@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-01 02:51:06 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
"TG'sFM" <su  2008-04-30 20:11:45 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
lynx <none@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-02 00:02:40 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
^Tems^ <brookersteve91  2008-05-02 10:12:08 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
Horry <horacewachope@[  2008-05-03 05:09:47 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
"Mr.T" <MrT@  2008-05-03 13:23:57 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
Horry <horacewachope@[  2008-05-03 12:41:42 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
"Mr.T" <MrT@  2008-05-03 13:56:21 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
Horry <horacewachope@[  2008-05-03 21:45:15 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
David Springthorpe <da  2008-05-01 14:49:03 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
"annily" <an  2008-05-01 22:46:39 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
lynx <none@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-02 00:09:25 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
"annily" <an  2008-05-02 15:06:29 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
modern <identity@[EMAI  2008-05-02 12:12:06 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
David Springthorpe <da  2008-05-02 12:31:46 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
^Tems^ <brookersteve91  2008-05-02 13:04:49 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
lynx <none@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-02 03:30:45 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
^Tems^ <brookersteve91  2008-05-02 13:47:34 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
lynx <none@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-02 04:45:53 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
lynx <none@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-02 03:32:25 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
"TG'sFM" <su  2008-05-01 19:20:25 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
Horry <horacewachope@[  2008-05-02 13:59:47 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
lynx <none@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-02 08:35:33 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
"Mr.T" <MrT@  2008-05-02 20:44:27 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
lynx <none@[EMAIL PROT  2008-05-02 12:41:57 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
Horry <horacewachope@[  2008-05-03 05:07:59 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
"TG'sFM" <su  2008-05-01 20:14:14 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
Zapkvr <kevin@[EMAIL P  2008-05-02 12:44:05 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
Horry <horacewachope@[  2008-05-03 05:06:05 
Re: stupid 'Home and Away' producers!
Zapkvr <kevin@[EMAIL P  2008-05-02 18:02:47 

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