Tuesday, October 23, 2012

"doesn't know if he was named for a knife or a race track"

Sorry, Alex: Bowie, Maryland, is not pronounced /ˈboʊ.i/ (BOH-ee) - like the singer, but rather /ˈbu:i:/ (BOO-ee), like the guy who died at the Alamo.

(The title? Somebody said that about baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn once, but I'm not finding the quote...)

Oooo, oooo: the mammalian nursery rhyme character suffering from allopecia is Fuzzy Wuzzy!!!

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2 Comments:

At 11:53 PM, October 23, 2012 Anonymous Kathie had this to say...

All I could think of was Humpty-Dumpty. Does an anthropomorphic egg count as a quasi-mammalian?

 
At 5:50 AM, October 24, 2012 Blogger The Ridger, FCD had this to say...

Is it still allopecia if you're not meant to have hair in the first place?

Children's rhymes and such: either you know it at once, or you never heard it before in your life!

 

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