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Author: Claire Annette
Date: 2009-07-09 17:18
...read this headline and see only one word, at first:
"ABC News: Warren BUFFETT says second stimulus may be needed"
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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-07-09 18:29
That's funny.
When I was in college my friends used to tease me about my pronouncing the word "buffet" (as in "pizza buffet") with a prominent long u ("boo-fay" as opposed to "buh-fay").
Of course, you know they're supposed to cease production of R-13 next year. 
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2009-07-09 22:14
I thought buffet and Buffet were both pronounced the same way - Bu'-fay ('Bu' as in 'book' and 'ffet' as in 'Fay').
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: BobD
Date: 2009-07-09 22:22
But Warren Buffet is pron. as spelled. He and Bill Gates own everything.
Bob Draznik
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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-07-09 23:59
Chris P wrote:
<<I thought buffet and Buffet were both pronounced the same way - Bu'-fay ('Bu' as in 'book' and 'ffet' as in 'Fay').>>
Well, my Oxford Dictionary says it's either buh-fay or bu-fay (bu as in book).
I've always pronounced them both "boo-fay" (boo rhyming with shoe), which sounds a little closer to the original French pronunciation to me. Apparently my pronunciation is more common in Louisiana, where my mother and her family are from--I probably picked it up from her. According to this website, all three vowel sounds are correct in American English.
Talking about this reminds me of that hilariously funny BBC show that is popular on this side of the pond, too:
"'Boo-kay' residence, lady of the house speaking..." 
Post Edited (2009-07-10 03:56)
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2009-07-10 02:09
"The French don't care what they DO, actually, as long as they PRONOUNCE it properly"
Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady ( ? or perhaps even in G.B. Shaw's original Pigmalion, if anyone can verify it)
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: mrn
Date: 2009-07-10 08:06
Mike Clarinet wrote:
> mrn - that is funnier if wou know that 'boo-kay' is spelt
> 'Bucket'
Yes, I knew that. I just wrote it 'boo-kay' for the sound.
I suppose I might as well have written it with the correct spelling, since anybody who's going to get the joke already knows the "proper" pronunciation, and anyone who doesn't already know it isn't going to understand the joke anyway.
Post Edited (2009-07-10 08:28)
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Author: BobD
Date: 2009-07-10 11:04
"The ship was Boo-faye-ted by the wind".
Bob Draznik
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Author: Claire Annette
Date: 2009-07-10 19:02
"Buffy accompanied Jimmy Buffett on her Buffet as the guests waited in line at the buffet."
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Author: tetiana
Date: 2009-07-10 19:45
Buffet Crampon being a French firm, in France you would pronounce the "u" as a German "u" with an "umlaut". (think Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau...).
tetiana
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Author: JJAlbrecht
Date: 2009-07-10 19:51
Actually, the French "u" sound is very similar to the standard German "u" sound, NOT like an umlauted "u" in German. In English, similar sounds would be the vowel sounds in "shoe" or "blue."
Jeff
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Author: tetiana
Date: 2009-07-10 21:24
In order to have a French "u" sound like "shoe", the spelling would be "ou" as in "bouffet".
tetiana
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Author: Gordon (NZ)
Date: 2009-07-11 00:42
Only a clarinet player would slip a thread of cotton, jammed under and across his pit-player side-kick's reed, then cut the ends off to make it invisible.
Clarinet just didn't work. Haha!
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Author: GBK
Date: 2009-07-11 01:07
Gordon (NZ) wrote:
> Only a clarinet player would slip a thread of cotton, jammed
> under and across his pit-player side-kick's reed, then cut the
> ends off to make it invisible.
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> Clarinet just didn't work. Haha!
Only a clarinet player would smear a tiny bit of cork grease on the tip of a colleague's reed to slow down the reed response and put an end to his incessant obnoxious boasting about how fast he can tongue.
...GBK
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Author: Claire Annette
Date: 2009-07-11 03:22
Only a clarinet player would come up with a user name like mine...which I nabbed from a couple of clarinetist friends at music camp more than 30 years ago, before usernames existed!
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Author: BobD
Date: 2009-07-11 13:29
"before usernames existed!" Ah, but we did have nicknames.
Bob Draznik
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-07-11 14:10
Claire Annette wrote:
> which I nabbed from a couple of clarinetist friends at
> music camp more than 30 years ago, before usernames existed!
Ahhh ... usernames existed more than 30 years ago ... the 1st email program was created 37 years ago, and usernames existed well before that.
How soon they forget ... but I digress
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-07-11 21:02
Claire Annette wrote:
> OK, raise your hand if you had e-mail access 30 years ago.
I think you might find a good 20 or 30 of us right here on the BBoard ... the earliest Usenet posting I can find that I made was in Feb, 1988.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2009-07-11 22:34
aero145 wrote:
> Cool Mark. Didn’t know it was the year 2018 for you now!
Posting to Usenet implies we had email addresses way before then ...
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Author: Lee
Date: 2009-07-11 23:13
Around 1980 I was logging onto our company's mainframe from home on my Atari 800 using a 300 baud modem. I had to login with a "user name".
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Author: Koo Young Chung
Date: 2009-07-11 23:27
Only a clarinet player would remember only that Michael Jackson's mother once played clarinet after reading 10 page obituary.
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