The third installment of an on ongoing series of digitally isolated building façades by French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy: small homes, mansions and boutiques eerily lit at dusk.
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The third installment of an on ongoing series of digitally isolated building façades by French photographer Zacharie Gaudrillot-Roy: small homes, mansions and boutiques eerily lit at dusk.
I think I was in my 20s when I first heard someone saying the word facade out loud. Oh, so it’s not fack-aid, thought I.
Up until around the age of 4, I thought barbed wire was called bob wire. And I thought next door neighbour was extra neighbour. I’ve more if you’re interested.
Hyperbole… Like hyper bowl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5RuGj0g1tk
after the third chorus…
Hyper-bowl…it’s real!
then again…who hasn’t got it wrong?; )
Two of my more recent discoveries are waistcoat (to my alarm, pronounced wesskit) and gooseberry (gozbry)
Gozbry if you’re a posh Brit. Are you?
There was a sketch about it on some show. Let me gewgle it.
Oh. It’s horrendously unfunny. Anyway:
https://youtu.be/4usAhEvMKZ4
No, no, no.
That part of a ship called a fo’csle. Only ever read it in books. Forecastle. Still don’t know how to say it. Not that I need to regularly.
Same with coxswain – pronounced koksun.
Fox-il? Dunno. I’m the same as you. That’s what I say in my head when I see it, anyway.
But what if it isn’t and all the other pirates make fun of you? Major morto.
The racecourse Southwell used to catch me out too.
How’s it pronounced?
Macabre. Ha? With a touch of French? Or Scottish-y?
Suthill (or suddill, depending on the accent)…it’s thrown me a few times also.
I’m going to guess Suth-il?
Yanks used to laugh at me for pronouncing Maryland as it’s written. They say Mirrilind.
M’learned colleagues laugh at me for now (intentionally at this stage) mispronouncing that place where Avoca is. I can’t remember its name but I get it wrong a la mucksavage. Oh hang on. Kilmacanogue.
I thought that’s what it’s still called