I last worked not terribly far from a Chillicothe, IL, so I was already versed on how to pronounce this tricky Iowa town name. Alas, some don't. Say it with me: "chill-uh-KAW-thee." 7. Delhi, IA: I confess to having screwed up the pronunciation of this town on the radio when ...
2. Being able to pronounce a word is equivalent to knowing what it means. 1 may seem true at first, but when you consider the fact that most kanji compounds only have two characters (and the longer ones can be broken down into sets of two), whereas the average English word is 5.1 le...
Fishkin: “I personally wouldn’t do it. I would be much more inclined today to say… Look, there are people today who would invest in clothing.com. They think it has value. They think they could build a brand around it. I would absolutely say that a short, pronounceable word that ...
When I teach beginner courses in Chinese, I usually play a small guessing game with the students where I say a few names of famous people in Chinese and they are supposed to guess whom they are referring to. This is easy for cases like 貝多芬 (Bèiduōfēn) Ludwig vanBeethoven, but imposs...
Conversely, a domain name that is difficult to spell or pronounce can be easily forgotten, resulting in lost traffic and sales. And with so many businesses vying for attention online, you can't afford to lose any potential customers. So, when choosing a domain name for your website or ...
Bettye peaked in popularity just a year after the singer-songwriter Bettye LaVette was born in 1946. Alas, LaVette's illustrious career and hit singles weren't quite enough to keep the name in heavy rotation. #40. Myrtle (girls)
Reading this word was, for me, one of those miracles of studying Japanese; I was able to pronounce the word and knew from the 報 basically what it meant in context, but I still didn’t know the exact meaning. 漢字, I forgive you. 18:45 やれやれ count – 2 times so far, I ...
I was particularly enamored with the thought of upping my scale, and observing lions do the deed. Most nights, the sounds of extremely enthusiastic lions reverberated through the early morning hours, but, alas, I never did get to see them in action. But our group of friends did see...
(For your ease in waking your bedmates, I pronounce it SEE-OH-AH.) The important thing is to recognize it when it is happening — and to take steps to break the pattern before it solidifies. Whatever you do, don’t panic — SIOA-avoidance can be overcome. Before I’m done with ...
a domain name that is difficult to spell or pronounce can be easily forgotten, resulting in lost traffic and sales. And with so many businesses vying for attention online, you can't afford to lose any potential customers. So, when choosing a domain name for your website or blog, make sur...