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meresy

Oh NOES.

Jun 23, 2009 14:27

Apparently the LCBO (pronounced Lick-boe, if you like, or "booze boutique") is fixing to have a strike.GUYS. That's the government liquor chain, the only one there is. THE HORROR. And of course now is when I think to myself, man, it'd be nice to have some cider in the fridge ( Read more... )

unforgivable whining, do not want, argh, random, d'oh, no value

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ubixtiz June 23 2009, 19:13:30 UTC

Oh no, seriously? It's Pride this weekend! WHAT WILL PEOPLE DO?

meresy June 23 2009, 19:14:41 UTC

BE DISTRESSINGLY SOBER. D:

ubixtiz June 23 2009, 19:19:08 UTC

But that is not how Pride is done! DDD:

ubixtiz June 23 2009, 19:15:21 UTC

P.S. My family has always said LEE-see-boh.

meresy June 23 2009, 19:29:57 UTC

That doesn't make an sense! I mean, liquor -- Lick-bo, eh? Where does "lee" come from? :O

ubixtiz June 23 2009, 19:44:00 UTC

I assumed both "Lick-bo" and "LEE-see-bo" came from inserting random vowel sounds to make LCBO pronounceable -- but "L-i-C(k)-BO" assumes a hard C and defaults to a more relaxed near-close near-front vowel after the L (or uses it because of the similarity to "liquor") where "L-ee-Cee-BO" assumes soft C/C pronounced like the letter and adds the high front vowel after the L for balance/rhyme and to allow for stress on the first syllable...

meresy June 23 2009, 19:59:46 UTC

Lease-bo then, if I were just putting a vowel in to get a soft c. Or just a schwa. Luh-ce-bo, Luh-cee-bo. Hm.

But it probably doesn't bear too much thinking about. *g*

ubixtiz June 23 2009, 20:10:25 UTC

You can't put your stress on a schwa, though. You'd need a caret, or to move the stress, and if you do that it starts to sound like "placebo," which is...there's a joke in there somewhere but it's not coming to me.

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