How do I tell people that they don't get a plus one?

GoldenPenguin · April 2014

lightningsnow said:

@jenna8984 Yes! But that is also what makes Boondock Saints a great Boston movie. Lol. "Where you going? Nowhere. You're fucking going nowhere!"

Just for the record, Bob Marley, aka Detective Greenley, is from Maine.

I grew up in Maine, now live in NY, and WISH I still had my Maine accent. At a past job, my boss could answer any of the phones in the office on his phone, and when he would see my mom calling, he would answer so he could hear her accent - then try to mimic it, but would always end up sounding British.

lightningsnow · April 2014

BriSox81 said:

lightningsnow said:

@jenna8984 Yes! But that is also what makes Boondock Saints a great Boston movie. Lol. "Where you going? Nowhere. You're fucking going nowhere!"

Just for the record, Bob Marley, aka Detective Greenley, is from Maine.

I grew up in Maine, now live in NY, and WISH I still had my Maine accent. At a past job, my boss could answer any of the phones in the office on his phone, and when he would see my mom calling, he would answer so he could hear her accent - then try to mimic it, but would always end up sounding British.

Ah, I didn't realize that. Strange then that he has such a thick Boston accent. Then again, I've never lived in Boston proper and I have a thick accent.

Thank you for that correction. Greenly is by far my favorite character from that movie because of how crazy he is.

happywiggle · April 2014

BriSox81 said:

amrhodes23 said:

I refuse to pronounce Worcester as Wooster/Woosta or Gloucester as Glouster/Glousta. My workmates make fun of me for that. All than -ham cities throw me in a loop, too. I think I'll stick to places like Schenectady, Niskayuna, and Sacandaga.

Oh, and there's no CH, so its -kester, not -chester.

STUCK. I'm totally bombing in on this thread.

Do you live in the Capital Region? I live/work in Rensselaer - that's always a fun one to tell people to spell/pronounce!

@BriSox81 I did, my FI still does. I went to RPI, so I know the pain of spelling that one!

happywiggle · April 2014

moemacWed30594 said:

I was so disappointed when I moved to Boston with the lack of accents. I can think of only a handful of people in my 10 years here who had them (from Quincy, Revere and Saugus). Everyone else has the generic American accent. Very disappointing. My old roommate from Saugus would put an "R" on the end of words that ended in a vowel. One time she asked if I wanted chips and salsa but I heard seltzer. Chips and seltzer were not as appetizing.
I was just told that since I have been here ten years, I could now say I was from Boston! Wicked pissah!

Man, I wish there was a lack of Boston accents... alas, I'm surrounded

GoldenPenguin · April 2014

amrhodes23 said:

BriSox81 said:

amrhodes23 said:

I refuse to pronounce Worcester as Wooster/Woosta or Gloucester as Glouster/Glousta. My workmates make fun of me for that. All than -ham cities throw me in a loop, too. I think I'll stick to places like Schenectady, Niskayuna, and Sacandaga.

Oh, and there's no CH, so its -kester, not -chester.

STUCK. I'm totally bombing in on this thread.

Do you live in the Capital Region? I live/work in Rensselaer - that's always a fun one to tell people to spell/pronounce!

@BriSox81 I did, my FI still does. I went to RPI, so I know the pain of spelling that one!

That's where I work!! I thank the pep band for the REN-SSE-LAER chant, because that's how I tell people to spell it now.

MrsMack10612 · April 2014

@amrhodes23 - I'm not following you on Worcester & Gloucester. The really bad accents call them Wooster/Woostah or Glahstah.

People who really don't know will stay War-chester or Glow-chester.

I prounce them Wuh-ster and or Glawster (like claw).

(It can be hard to type that stuff in a phonetic way to make sure your trying to get it across clearly).

happywiggle · April 2014

MrsMack10612 said: @amrhodes23 - I'm not following you on Worcester & Gloucester. The really bad accents call them Wooster/Woostah or Glahstah.

People who really don't know will stay War-chester or Glow-chester.

I prounce them Wuh-ster and or Glawster (like claw).

(It can be hard to type that stuff in a phonetic way to make sure your trying to get it across clearly).
It's okay, most people give it the horrid pronunciations that seems to be characteristic of this area. Worcester isn't spelled Worchester, same thing with Gloucester

happywiggle · April 2014

BriSox81 said:

amrhodes23 said:

BriSox81 said:

amrhodes23 said:

I refuse to pronounce Worcester as Wooster/Woosta or Gloucester as Glouster/Glousta. My workmates make fun of me for that. All than -ham cities throw me in a loop, too. I think I'll stick to places like Schenectady, Niskayuna, and Sacandaga.

Oh, and there's no CH, so its -kester, not -chester.

STUCK. I'm totally bombing in on this thread.

Do you live in the Capital Region? I live/work in Rensselaer - that's always a fun one to tell people to spell/pronounce!

@BriSox81 I did, my FI still does. I went to RPI, so I know the pain of spelling that one!

That's where I work!! I thank the pep band for the REN-SSE-LAER chant, because that's how I tell people to spell it now.

Nice! You're on the other side of things

arrippa · April 2014

Speaking of misprouncing MA city names, there is a scene in The West Wing where a character pronounces Haverhill as Haver-Hill and it annoys me everytime.

MrsMack10612 · April 2014

@moemackWed30594 - I have that problem when I here people mispronounce Peabody.

It is not Pea-body. It is Peabahdee.

I was on trip once in Savannah, GA when the tour guide was telling us about their custom house and it was all quarried in Kinsea (Quincy, MA). I was like no, did you really say that like that?

phira · April 2014

@moemacWed30594 YEP. So irritating. I grew up near Concord, which is pronounced like "conquered." My college boyfriend insisted that it was pronounced "con-CORD," even though he was not from the area at all (he was from Chicago) and I had frickin GROWN UP knowing how this neighboring town was pronounced.

arrippa · April 2014

phira said:

@moemacWed30594 YEP. So irritating. I grew up near Concord, which is pronounced like "conquered." My college boyfriend insisted that it was pronounced "con-CORD," even though he was not from the area at all (he was from Chicago) and I had frickin GROWN UP knowing how this neighboring town was pronounced.

I grew up in Cali and there is a city named Concord there that I have always pronounced like "conquered" too. So I know what you are talking about.

lightningsnow · April 2014

I despise when people mispronounce the city names of MA. I grew up in Dracut. It is pronounced DrA-Cut. Not Dra-Cut. They can always pronounce Lowell though. Bastards.

PrettyGirlLost · April 2014

I don't think anyone in the US has a right to get angry with how people pronounce city names, when we have trouble pronouncing them correctly in the first place- North Versailles = North Versails is a case in point.

And every time I hear that basketball team referred to as the Seltics I want to choke someone.

happywiggle · April 2014

PrettyGirlLost said:

I don't think anyone in the US has a right to get angry with how people pronounce city names, when we have trouble pronouncing them correctly in the first place- North Versailles = North Versails is a case in point.

And every time I hear that basketball team referred to as the Seltics I want to choke someone.

Me, too. FI and I were actually talking about that yesterday.

Simply Fated · April 2014

The Seltics vs Celtics thing bugs me, too. How did the team get to be pronounced that way?

lc07 · April 2014

PrettyGirlLost said:

I don't think anyone in the US has a right to get angry with how people pronounce city names, when we have trouble pronouncing them correctly in the first place- North Versailles = North Versails is a case in point.

And every time I hear that basketball team referred to as the Seltics I want to choke someone.

@PrettyGirlLost , I seriously had no idea. Am I supposed to be saying it kel-tiks? *feeling foolish*

JellyBean52513 · April 2014

Stuck in a box with underlined font....

I admit to mispronouncing Haverhill and Peabody when I first moved here. Also, I always *thought* the word Celtic was pronounced like Keltic, but then all I ever heard was Seltic (in reference to the team). I figured, if that's how they pronounce their own name, that must be right.

Also, speaking of interesting pronunciations... there is a street in NYC called Houston St. It's pronounced HOUSE-ton, not Hew-ston like the city in Texas. Took me long enough to figure that out when I asked for directions once.

huskypuppy14 · April 2014

lc07 said:

PrettyGirlLost said:

I don't think anyone in the US has a right to get angry with how people pronounce city names, when we have trouble pronouncing them correctly in the first place- North Versailles = North Versails is a case in point.

And every time I hear that basketball team referred to as the Seltics I want to choke someone.

@PrettyGirlLost , I seriously had no idea. Am I supposed to be saying it kel-tiks? *feeling foolish*

No it is pronounced Seltics for the basketball team. But in Ireland it would be Kel-tiks. There are many town names and other landmarks that come from European "sister cities" but pronounced with a more Americanized name.

A lot of these towns in New England come from towns in England. Gloucester and Worcester come from Gloucestershire and Worcestershire for example.

jenna8984 · April 2014

laurynm84 said:

lc07 said:

PrettyGirlLost said:

I don't think anyone in the US has a right to get angry with how people pronounce city names, when we have trouble pronouncing them correctly in the first place- North Versailles = North Versails is a case in point.

And every time I hear that basketball team referred to as the Seltics I want to choke someone.

@PrettyGirlLost , I seriously had no idea. Am I supposed to be saying it kel-tiks? *feeling foolish*

No it is pronounced Seltics for the basketball team. But in Ireland it would be Kel-tiks. There are many town names and other landmarks that come from European "sister cities" but pronounced with a more Americanized name.

A lot of these towns in New England come from towns in England. Gloucester and Worcester come from Gloucestershire and Worcestershire for example.

Yup, I'm in MA and most towns are all names from England. Oxford, Leicester, Brighton, Cambridge. Which are some more commonly mispronounced- Leicester is Lester, Leominster is Lemon-ster.

I once called my credit card company to ask about my account and the woman said I need to verify your identity- what city were you born? I said "wistah" and she's like no that's incorrect. I'm like no it's fucking not, I know where I was born. She's like well I have in the computer Wor-chester. I'm like that's what I said- that's how you pronounce it! She was in Texas and her mind was blown lol.

MrsMack10612 · April 2014

laurynm84 said:

lc07 said:

PrettyGirlLost said:

I don't think anyone in the US has a right to get angry with how people pronounce city names, when we have trouble pronouncing them correctly in the first place- North Versailles = North Versails is a case in point.

And every time I hear that basketball team referred to as the Seltics I want to choke someone.

@PrettyGirlLost , I seriously had no idea. Am I supposed to be saying it kel-tiks? *feeling foolish*

No it is pronounced Seltics for the basketball team. But in Ireland it would be Kel-tiks. There are many town names and other landmarks that come from European "sister cities" but pronounced with a more Americanized name.

A lot of these towns in New England come from towns in England. Gloucester and Worcester come from Gloucestershire and Worcestershire for example.

I would love to know how the Seltics became that vs. the Keltics.

phira · April 2014

laurynm84 said:

lc07 said:

PrettyGirlLost said:

I don't think anyone in the US has a right to get angry with how people pronounce city names, when we have trouble pronouncing them correctly in the first place- North Versailles = North Versails is a case in point.

And every time I hear that basketball team referred to as the Seltics I want to choke someone.

@PrettyGirlLost , I seriously had no idea. Am I supposed to be saying it kel-tiks? *feeling foolish*

No it is pronounced Seltics for the basketball team. But in Ireland it would be Kel-tiks. There are many town names and other landmarks that come from European "sister cities" but pronounced with a more Americanized name.

A lot of these towns in New England come from towns in England. Gloucester and Worcester come from Gloucestershire and Worcestershire for example.

Yep. My last name is an actual word in a foreign language, and my family pronounces is entirely Americanized. Because of basketball, I grew up mispronouncing "Celtic" and had to really train myself to see the basketball team as, like, an entirely separate word so I would stop getting the real word wrong.

MrsMack10612 · April 2014

@phira - Whenever referencing culture, I would pronounce it properly.

phira · April 2014

MrsMack10612 said:

@phira - Whenever referencing culture, I would pronounce it properly.

No, no, I know that. I had to train myself to think of them as two different things so I wouldn't mess up.

MrsMack10612 · April 2014

phira said:

MrsMack10612 said:

@phira - Whenever referencing culture, I would pronounce it properly.

No, no, I know that. I had to train myself to think of them as two different things so I wouldn't mess up.

Now I understand what you mean. I guess because I grew up with it, I always had that separation in my head.

kitty8403 · April 2014

netskyblue2 said:
I met most of FI's extended family at his cousin's wedding a year and a half ago (they had never met me). I was glad to get to know them there, and am now looking forward to seeing them again at OUR wedding.

Same! Incidentally, not only had we been dating longer than they, but also our relationship has outlasted that particular marriage.

And yes, I've been the one "forgotten" on an invite sent to my now-fiancé. It turned out to be an accidental oversight in that case, but guests do notice these things, and they will remember them years later.

kitty8403 · April 2014

MrsMackVI said:
If they didn't have a SO when you finalized your guest list, I say just inform your relatives of your space limitations. If they don't understand o well. We chose not to include plus 1's unless the SO was a long term SO (meaning we have met them more than once). After RSVPs come in we plan to open the remaining spaces on a first come first serve basis. Bottomline its YOUR wedding and YOU ARE FOOTING THE BILL! Don't let your family member's new relationship stress you out.

I'm rather intrigued by the way you define a "long-term" SO. So by your logic, I should disinvite my cousin's girlfriend of several years because she lives in another state and we've never met previously? After all, it can't possibly be a long-term relationship, can it, since *I* haven't met her more than once!

Also, what the heck is a "first come, first serve basis" for invitations? Are you putting them out for bid?

GoldenPenguin · April 2014

lightningsnow said:

BriSox81 said:

lightningsnow said:

@jenna8984 Yes! But that is also what makes Boondock Saints a great Boston movie. Lol. "Where you going? Nowhere. You're fucking going nowhere!"

Just for the record, Bob Marley, aka Detective Greenley, is from Maine.

I grew up in Maine, now live in NY, and WISH I still had my Maine accent. At a past job, my boss could answer any of the phones in the office on his phone, and when he would see my mom calling, he would answer so he could hear her accent - then try to mimic it, but would always end up sounding British.

Ah, I didn't realize that. Strange then that he has such a thick Boston accent. Then again, I've never lived in Boston proper and I have a thick accent.

Thank you for that correction. Greenly is by far my favorite character from that movie because of how crazy he is.

I missed this the other day - but it's not REALLY strange, because a Maine accent sounds very similar to a Boston accent anyway. It's not identical - and a Downeast Maine accent is it's own beast - but they have the same inflections and dropping of the "r." Plus he plays it up for the movie, obviously.

Look up some of his stand-up on YouTube, and you'll hear it.

Kauris · April 2014

kitty8403 said:

MrsMackVI
If they didn't have a SO when you finalized your guest list, I say just inform your relatives of your space limitations. If they don't understand o well. We chose not to include plus 1's unless the SO was a long term SO (meaning we have met them more than once). After RSVPs come in we plan to open the remaining spaces on a first come first serve basis. Bottomline its YOUR wedding and YOU ARE FOOTING THE BILL! Don't let your family member's new relationship stress you out.
I'm rather intrigued by the way you define a "long-term" SO. So by your logic, I should disinvite my cousin's girlfriend of several years because she lives in another state and we've never met previously? After all, it can't possibly be a long-term relationship, can it, since *I* haven't met her more than once! Also, what the heck is a "first come, first serve basis" for invitations? Are you putting them out for bid?

It sounds like she is B listing people.

ETT @MrsMackVI

lightningsnow · April 2014

GoldenPenguin said:

lightningsnow said:

BriSox81 said:

lightningsnow said:

@jenna8984 Yes! But that is also what makes Boondock Saints a great Boston movie. Lol. "Where you going? Nowhere. You're fucking going nowhere!"

Just for the record, Bob Marley, aka Detective Greenley, is from Maine.

I grew up in Maine, now live in NY, and WISH I still had my Maine accent. At a past job, my boss could answer any of the phones in the office on his phone, and when he would see my mom calling, he would answer so he could hear her accent - then try to mimic it, but would always end up sounding British.

Ah, I didn't realize that. Strange then that he has such a thick Boston accent. Then again, I've never lived in Boston proper and I have a thick accent.

Thank you for that correction. Greenly is by far my favorite character from that movie because of how crazy he is.

I missed this the other day - but it's not REALLY strange, because a Maine accent sounds very similar to a Boston accent anyway. It's not identical - and a Downeast Maine accent is it's own beast - but they have the same inflections and dropping of the "r." Plus he plays it up for the movie, obviously.

Look up some of his stand-up on YouTube, and you'll hear it.

Thanks will do!

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