Kay-toe or Cat-O

[jkroft]

I guess this is just one of those topics that will go 'round and 'round with no clear answer.  So on this topic, I've got a few questions that need answering....

1. If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?
2. Why are they called "apartments" when they are so close together?
3. Why are there brail dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
4. If Seven-Eleven is open 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year, why are there locks on the doors?
5. What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
6. Why does an alarm clock "go off" when it turns on?
7. Why does cargo go by ship and shipment go by truck?
8. Why is it a "pair" of panties and only one bra?
9. Why do I need a driver's license to buy liquor if I can't drink-and-drive?
10. Lastly, If "pro" is the opposite of "con", is progress the opposite of congress? 

[wjstix]

How about Marklin?? I believe in German it's pronounced "Mare-clean"...as in a recently washed female horse. In the US we usually say "Mark-linn".

[selector]

Cough, bough, though, through, tough, ...what's up with that?

 

[Vail and Southwestern RR]

How about Marklin?? I believe in German it's pronounced "Mare-clean"...as in a recently washed female horse. In the US we usually say "Mark-linn".

Because in the US we usually say it wrong!

[WP 3020]

I guess this is just one of those topics that will go 'round and 'round with no clear answer.  So on this topic, I've got a few questions that need answering....

1. If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?
2. Why are they called "apartments" when they are so close together?
3. Why are there brail dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
4. If Seven-Eleven is open 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year, why are there locks on the doors?
5. What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
6. Why does an alarm clock "go off" when it turns on?
7. Why does cargo go by ship and shipment go by truck?
8. Why is it a "pair" of panties and only one bra?
9. Why do I need a driver's license to buy liquor if I can't drink-and-drive?
10. Lastly, If "pro" is the opposite of "con", is progress the opposite of congress? 

1. Don' know I just shoot them.
2. Because when you are in one you wish you were apart from them? Or individual house rooms instead of one big shared room.
3. I've seen them drive, I think?
4. Because when Abu gets shot you need to keep the tweakers and gawkers out.
5. Hospital bed?
6. ?
7. ?
8. Pair of scissors?

Can't help you much more than that. When people use static grass they usually glue it down to the scenery.

[trainfan1221]

As long as we've gone this far..

Why do you drive on a Parkway and park in a driveway?

And I just say Kato with a long A.

[Tilden]

  You know, none of these pronunciations is necessarily wrong.  People are simply pronouncing them using American english.  Versus English english or the native language.
  What really bothers me is pronouncing a word in no language.  In the California central valley there is a town spelled Delano.  In the original spanish it would have an accent mark over the o.  The High School name still does, so that would make it Dell-lan-yo.  In english it should be pronounced like Franklin Delano Roosevelt's middle name, Del-an-oh.   
  How do most of the Valley populace pronounce it?  Duh-lay-no.

Still haven't figured that one out.

Tilden

[Walleye]

And why do you click "Start" to shut down Windows?