Memo to John McCain: There is no "R" in "Washington"

[Skinner]

Do I have to listen to this guy say "Warshington" over and over for the next nine months? It's like listening to the moron-in-chief say "nukyuler."

[Bicoastal]

1. Michael Moore says "Warshington"....

...but he may just be doing it facetiously.

[babylonsister]

2. After hearing Obama, he's dull as dishwater. nt

[proud patriot]

3. Is that what he said ? I fell asleep

:)

[Danger Mouse]

4. His jokes are hopelessly idiotic, too...

makes Bush look like a comic genius.
EDIT: Wow, now who looks stupid?

[Kazak]

5. There's no "R" in "idea" either, FWIW...

'Just sayin'... :shrug:

[XemaSab]

8. Tell that to Howard Dean

:hide:

[KAZ]

6. A not so good looking version of Dole. No fatherly-ness...

.. nothing. We're being given a gift.

[Staph]

7. My parents broke me of that habit,

saying "Warshington", when I was about six years old. Poor John McCain! His parents must not have loved him very much.

[Skittles]

9. I CAN'T STAND IT, SKINNER

WTF - is it too much to ask that they speak proper English? :o

[AngryOldDem]

10. That's typically a Midwestern idiosyncracy.

Which is perhaps why I didn't notice it...either that, or I was too busy putting my warsh in the dryer.

[SoCalDem]

24. It's a Kansas thing too..like Ung-yons

:eyes:

[countryjake]

25. Yuppers. Or wrenching our dishes, ha!

Grew up in Ohio, and til I left home and got married, I never knew or was ever told that I was mispronouncing "Washington". Everyone said it that way. Then one day, after returning from a march in Washington, I was politely informed by my new mother-in-law that I was too bright to display such ignorance by speaking so poorly. Never forgot her advice. Til I moved out here to Washington and found that roughly 2/3 of the population live in Warshington state.

I fit right in.

[Liberal In Texas]

29. Yes it is, very upper midwest. Thom Hartman says WaRshington a lot too.

Drives me nuts.

[bleever]

11. Why do you hate Amurka?

Damn, I forgot to say, "My good friends..."

[FlyingSquirrel]

12. Are you from Washington state by chance?

I am... but I have to say, I've gotten used to hearing "Warshington"... I had a roommate who pronounced it that way and it drove me nuts, but now it's just another one of those things. Like how my name always gets misspelled.

Nukyuler, on the other hand..........

:mad:

[Skinner]

33. I'm (currently) from Washington DC. (nt)

[TheDoorbellRang]

13. And here's hoping there's a lot less R's in Washington come November

:D

[Skinner]

32. rofl

Good one. :thumbsup:

[Cleita]

14. If he become commander in chief, yes, for longer than nine months. n/t

[Jamastiene]

15. Lolz, just what we need...

ANOTHER Repug talking like that. :eyes:

[EFerrari]

16. There's some weirdo kind of loss of language going on.

Politicians can't speak English, let alone pronounce it.

But, there's more. Anchors can't read the language -- Greta who works WJ couldn't pronounce "ostensible" the other day and she has frequent pronunciation catastrophes.

News writers can't compose paragraphs anymore. When I hunt for stories for the ER Daily News, so many of them use sentences as paragraphs. Maybe editors have been outsourced to Mars.


I usually agree with you about the myth of the Golden Age of anything, but holy cow, it's like we're leaking language and there's no fill up in sight.

[Skinner]

34. I keep hearing pundits on TV misprounouncing the word "pundit."

They say "pundent" with an "N". Very strange. You'd think a pundit could pronounce pundit.

[hootinholler]

17. Ever been to Picksberg?

Little warshington Pa. is near there.

Or seen a chimley far?

Ever done yer warsh in a tub?

How bout wachin a iggle fly?

And how bout them stillers?

Have ya used a gumband today?

-Hoot

[countingbluecars]

18. McCain slogan

Keep the war in Washington.

[Diane R]

19. A lot of people who live in Washington State put the 'r' in Warshington.

[Hoof Hearted]

20. Totally not fair that you have all those hearts Skinner! You must be a suck-up!

:evilgrin:

[Kurovski]

21. I had a childhood friend whose mom used to say "warsh your teeth."

or ask "Did you warsh your teeth"?

No, he didn't have dentures.

[eridani]

22. And you don't even live in Washington state!!

ARRRRGGHHH! :mad:

[SoCalDem]

23. My friendssssssss...eeek.... kill me now

and that rythmic sing-song ...aaaack!!!

He'll probably start saying Noo-Q-Lur too :spank:

[countryjake]

26. Someone needs to splice out one of his speeches & YouTube all of those obnoxious...

my friendssssssss.

Or maybe Letterman will do it. I think he's already mentioned something about McCain and all of his "friends".

[nealmhughes]

27. That weird interstitial "r" pops up in the oddest places: Boston with Cuber,

the Appalachians also have "Warshington" as does Ballmer.

The thing that I cannot stand to hear is a broad 'a' where it historically is absent in American speech or in Southern England, the Boston equivalents of Hyacinth Bouquet tend to do this at times. . .

But then again, I find "fixin' to" perfectly acceptable pulpit level speech!

[radfringe]

28. Unfortunately

there are toooooo many R's in office... or would that be oRfice?

[PA Democrat]

30. LOL! I was yelling the same thing at the TV last night.

How many years has McCain been in Washington, and he STILL doesn't know the proper pronunciation of the city's name?

[peekaloo]

31. He's got War on the brain.

[gollygee]

35. He sounds like my dad and grandma

both say (or said in the case of grandma) Warshington. They also warsh the car and dishes, and do the warshing (laundry).

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

36. He'll continue to say "Democrat party" too.

He's an idiot.