Comments on: Colonel HotForWords Reporting!

By: Capman911

Capman911 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:18:32 +0000

I like these kind of videos. The new ones are cool too, but the older ones bring back such good memories.

By: leonard

leonard — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:10:43 +0000

HeaD of CLaSS is MARINAof H.O.T.for.W.O.R.D.S

corn belt and a hit of bunchberry; dogwood

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By: eyvindur

eyvindur — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:21:37 +0000

Yes Ma’am you can be my commanding officer in the apocalypse. I love when she wears baseball caps sooo cute. Hotforprofits should wear a baseball hat sometime.

By: pedantickarl

pedantickarl — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:42:58 +0000

Marina, I messed up . I meant to post the above on the Forte video page. I’ve already re-posted the above on the Forte page. You can delete this and the above comment. Thanks.

By: pedantickarl

pedantickarl — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:34:44 +0000

Question: If we didn’t have homonyms, would we still be talking about how to pronounce fort vs fort-tay?

I think most people have been impacted in some negative way due to hearing one thing when it was supposed to mean another. To prevent mis-heard speech, some people emphasize certain syllables, or in some cases people use affected speech. Here are examples of emphasized or affected speech, not necessarily homonyms. niner (nine), biatch (bitch), dayum (damn)

How about tort vs torte. We don’t say, “Give the children another piece of tor-tay”.

Many dictionaries have a usage note regarding the pronunciation of forte, pointing to the influence of the music term forte.

On a related note, Marina did a video on the word Colonel vs kernel. That video points out some interesting historical things regarding pronunciation.
http://www.hotforwords.com/2008/01/01/colonel-hotforwords-reporting/

Hey, if we didn’t have all these inconsistencies there might not have been a HotForWords site.

By: protac6

protac6 — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:58:44 +0000

I’m next to my mailbox as I type.

By: rantanplan

rantanplan — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:22:15 +0000

In Greek language there is also the work Κόλων (kolon), modern Greek: κολώνα (kolona) and it means exactly the same.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%89%CE%BD%CE%B1%CE%AF

I don’t know which is the most ancient..

By: blueskies13

blueskies13 — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:13:42 +0000

what again is dissimilation ?

By: smokey36bear

smokey36bear — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:09:56 +0000

I have a few: knife, knee gnat, if letters are silent why do they need to be there. we don’t say ka-nife, or ka-nee, or ga-nat.

By: Travis

Travis — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:47:19 +0000

New user to your site, love it!

I would also like to second the questions about “great” as well as “lefttenant”/”lieutenant”. In doing some research on the issue, it seems that the former may be a bastardization stemming from people mis-hearing the word, and assuming that the lieutenant was just the person who stood to the left of the commanding officer (from wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant). Interesting, then that we refer to a second in command frequently as a “right hand man”. Seems like someone’s mixing their positions!

However, the Occam’s Razor explanation is that we simply do not know. See http://www.waywordradio.org/discussion/?forum=1&topic=60&page=1 for a brief discussion of this topic — especially for people who hesitate to cite Wiki articles.

Anyway, great site!