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Baa Pronounced Like a Sheep Sound (more than anyone wants to know, really)
07/05/2013, 15:49:29

    Tennessee Ernie Ford writes:

    As Bones writes, the M&M series has some long traditions, including the "ancient technology" that turns out to be our RL future tech. There's an actual Lloyd (hence the Beacon's name) and a town of Sorpigal somewhere along the way.

    I always thought the Evil Churches being named after animal sounds was a semi-homage to The Nights Who Say Ni (even though that's just a very funny sound, not an animal noise).

    So I've always assumed that "Baa" was pronounced like Americans & Brits imitate a sheep's bleat (the jargon word for the noise),

    Wiktionary says:
    (UK) IPA: [bɑː]
    (US) IPA: [bæ], [bɑ]

    (However, I know that Americans pronounce that sound differently, depending on the region — I assume there's even more variation across the UK & Ireland).

    Not sure if I trust wiktionary's translations, since it links to synonyms in other languages for the "bah" sound (e.g. Scrooge's "bah, humbug"), not the animal sounds.

    Finally: Hi, Peter!





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