Re: [NTLK] OT kallisys?

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2003 - 09:59:56 PST


on 22/03/03 10:47, Eric L. Strobel at fyzycyst_at_comcast.net wrote:

> somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 3/22/03 2:52 AM, the entity known
> as Jeremy Bond Shepherd transmitted the following from jbond_at_jameswhale.com:
>
>> Well, er, oops. My college French professor would insist I point out
>> that the correct pronounciation of poutine is more like "poo-TEEN-eh".
>> But it sounds enough like "put it" for the pun to work. I think.
>
> Ah, but how do the Quebec-anians (a semi-state w/in Canuckistan) pronounce
> it?

Pou-ti-ne. Or probably close to 'poo-teen-eh'.

-Laurent.

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