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Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → General Discussion → Your jokes
a score of 22!
Should that be read as “a score of 22 [remarkably]” or “a score of 1124000727777607680000“?
It was running humour from the posts about the label on the jar of jam.
I wrote this fifty word science fiction story over five years ago. Not a joke as such, more a story with a humorous implication.
An unrelentingly English English joke, that one! It doesn’t work with the rhotic accents that are commonly found in my neck of the woods.
KarenPL wrote:
An unrelentingly English English joke, that one! It doesn’t work with the rhotic accents that are commonly found in my neck of the woods.
In your neck of the woods does khaki rhyme with tacky?
Alfred wrote:An unrelentingly English English joke, that one! It doesn’t work with the rhotic accents that are commonly found in my neck of the woods.
In your neck of the woods does khaki rhyme with tacky?
No, I don’t think the vowel sound is the same in those two words. However, the point is that the joke depends on the ‘intrusive r’ that typically occurs in English as spoken south of the border but not in English as spoken in Central Scotland: there’s generally a distinction here between ‘kah-kee’ and ‘kar-kee’.
Alfred wrote:KarenPL wrote:
An unrelentingly English English joke, that one! It doesn’t work with the rhotic accents that are commonly found in my neck of the woods.
In your neck of the woods does khaki rhyme with tacky?
Nope, here in the Midlands, it sounds like car key, hence why I found the above an amusing play on words. My cousin, ex-Parachute Regiment, so very familiar with the term 
, from the Yorkshire/County Durham border, says it the same way.
The Cambridge Dictionary gives an audio of how it is pronounced in English and American. The American version sounds closer to tacky, but I'm a Brit, not a Yank. 
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio … lish/khaki
The Cambridge Dictionary gives an audio of how it is pronounced in English and American. The American version sounds closer to tacky, but I'm a Brit, not a Yank.
I see that there are two US pronouns shown in IPA on that page, but (presumably because one is the same as the UK version) they only include an audio sample for the one that differs.
UK /ˈkɑː.ki/ US /ˈkæ.ki/ /ˈkɑː.ki/
So the UK pronunciation uses /ɑː/ (a long /ɑ/) whereas the typical US pronunciation uses /æ/, which I understand to be articulated further forward.
I remember a movie where a woman driver in khaki army uniform in World Warv 2 showed her finger nails with nail polish on them and said "khaki" in a way that rhymed with "tacky". Had she been told off for previously having red nail polish?
https://www.etymonline.com/word/khaki
khaki(n.)
"dust-colored cloth," 1857, from Urdu khaki, literally "dusty," from khak "dust," a word from Persian. Used principally at first for uniforms of British cavalry in India, introduced in the Guide Corps, 1846; widely adopted for camouflage purposes in the Boer Wars (1899-1902). It once had overtones of militarism. As an adjective from 1863. Related: Khakis.
I’m reminded of a cousin’s visit to Scotland more than a half a century ago. He and a friend were in the US Navy, and they wanted to visit the US naval base here, but when he asked one of the locals “Where do we catch the Dunoon ferry?” the answer (accompanied by an outstretched arm with a pointing finger) was something like “Oh, you just missed her! She flew over that way.”
Is the ferry molar powered?
KarenPL wrote:
Is the ferry molar powered?
LOL. You’re really getting your teeth into this, aren’t you!
William wrote:KarenPL wrote:
Is the ferry molar powered?
LOL. You’re really getting your teeth into this, aren’t you!
I suppose it would be pertinent to ask whether the ferry always follows the same ‘root’.
Alfred wrote:William wrote:Is the ferry molar powered?
LOL. You’re really getting your teeth into this, aren’t you!
I suppose it would be pertinent to ask whether the ferry always follows the same ‘root’.
German-speaking passengers might wonder whether they can book by Email.
Found on the Punny Pete Facebook page. 
LOL, Karen. Good one!
Just spotted in a Facebook Group.
Punny Pete
>Scarlett Overkill<
A Tommy Cooper classic:
You look like a pepper pot.
Thank you, I'll take that as a condiment.
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