Tuesday, December 29, 2009

QUANDRIES FOR JACQUES BAILLY: Is that thing now pictured in our masthead a "Tree-Buck-it" or a "Tray-boo-chay?" Related--is the game you play with rackets and a shuttlecock (yes, cue Butthead laughing) "bad-mitten" or "bad-mint-on?"

8 comments:

  1. calliekl5:04 PM

    I thought it was treh-boo-shay. And I'm never sure about the second.

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  2. The Pathetic Earthling5:13 PM

    It's a treh-boo-say.  And although it's rightly Bad-Mint-on, my wife has her HS Varsity letter from playing "bad-mitten" so I stay with that.

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  3. Marsha5:46 PM

    On Punkin' Chunkin', they call it a treh-buh-SHAY. And they's the experts.

    I say bad-mitten, right or wrong. It's unlikely I'll manage to change that now.

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  4. Treh-boo-shay, I have it as, and bad-minton.

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  5. nowhereman7:14 PM

    It's definitely trey-boo-shay or trey-buh-shay depending on how you like your "uh"s

    As for the second, I think I fall somewhere in between, with "bad-minten"

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  6. MidwestAndrew4:54 PM

    Definitely is trey-boo-shay and bad-mint-en/on/in/howeveryouwanttopronouncethatlastsyllable.

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  7. D'Arcy7:13 PM

    From someone who is fluent in French, I'd say tre-bu-shay.  As for the other, I've never been able to figure out where people get bad-mitten from.  Isn't there an "n" before the "t"?  I've always said bad-min-ton, with the stress on the first syllable.  But I could be wrong.

    I'm not wrong about trebuchet, though.

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  8. Genevieve10:50 AM

    I've always said bad-mitten, but I know that's not pronouncing it how it's spelled.  Still, neither is Con-net-i-cut, and that's how my husband and in-laws say it, and everyone else there I've met.

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