Re: Resurfacing from the void with a petty question

Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Mon, 07 Jun 1999 14:24:14 -0400 (EDT) 

PRONUNCIATIONS:

ZOO-ey....  for sure.  I've always thought it pretentious when people said
ZOE--e-mit-ein-umlaut...  (Besides the ONLY ZoE-e-mit-ein-umlaut that I'll
allow is the wonderful Aussie actress named Caudwell--opposite whom I once
played 'stage-door-Johnny' on Broadway, but that's another story....)

....and thanks for the tip about EMUs (or should we be adding that 's' in
order to talk about more than one Emyew?), Camille...

Now, WHAT the HECK's a "billobong"? (sp?)  Confirm or deny that it has
something to do with illicit drugs....

Cheers,


Paul









>Oh, I'm a Zoo-ey girl from way back. (: Has to do with a friend of mine's
>tragic tale - he had a little dog named Zoo-ey, after Zooey Glass, and he
>lost custody of him in a flatmate dispute. It was very sad. 
>
>Besides - surely if it's a contraction of his Christian name it would be a
>more obvious one than `Zoe'. 
>
>And while I'm on the subject of pronunciation I'd like to call all the
>Americans on the list to send out an urgent message to everyone over there
>who pronounces Emu `EE-moo'. It's pronounced *EE-myew* Eemyew. Eemyew!!!
>(And for what it's worth they're a lousy investment over here, too (: )
>
>Camille
>verona_beach@geocities.com
>@ THE ARTS HOLE http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
>@ THE INVERTED FOREST http://www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I was a member of this list for a while about a year ago, signed off when
>I 
>> relocated from New Hampshire to Arkansas, changed email addresses, etc,
>and 
>> resubscribed about a month ago. I now submit my first post from the South
>in 
>> order to settle a friendly argument I'm having with a colleague here.
>> 
>> How do various members of the list pronounce the name of the youngest
>Glass 
>> brother? Do you pronounce it phonetically (Zoo-ey, with the first
>syllable 
>> sounding like the place monkeys and elephants live) or like the female
>name 
>> Zoe? I've heard both.
>> 
>> I apologize for the pettiness of this question, but am genuinely
>interested 
>> in your answers. I assure you that I am, on occasion, capable of coming
>up 
>> with more interesting things to talk about.
>> 
>> Good to be back,
>> Bethany
>> 
>> 
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