Which Side Should You Tie Your Dirndl?

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Which Side Should You Tie Your Dirndl?

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This could be very important to Atsali and Skylar.

EDIT: I messed up on this and I need to see if so can find the right URL again have now got the right URL.
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You know, you might just want to check your spelling (typos, I presume...), as well as the included link (points to the main Wapsi Square site...)
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lake_wrangler wrote: Tue Jan 15, 2019 9:57 pm You know, you might just want to check your spelling (typos, I presume...), as well as the included link (points to the main Wapsi Square site...)
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Whenever I see the word "Dirndl" I think a vowel or two are missing. Then I remember "squirreled" has the most vowels for a single syllable word, and I shouldn't be so picky.
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Atomic wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 9:04 am Whenever I see the word "Dirndl" I think a vowel or two are missing. Then I remember "squirreled" has the most vowels for a single syllable word, and I shouldn't be so picky.
With all the political turmoil and international conflict these days, it's good to remember better times... like the great Vowel Crisis of 1993 (a prime example of an odd year, it's true) .

The United States responded to a dreadful shortage of vowels in Europe and the U.K. (there had been a crop failure) by airlifting many tons of excess As and Os and Us from Hawaii and dropping then by parachute into Ysbyty Ystwyth, Krk, Pyzdry, Ryn, Szczyrk, Tychy, and Wyrzysk.

Quick treatment of the residents with large doses of warm, soothing vowels quickly relieved the symptoms of this nutritional deficiency (serious throat cramps and tongue spasms) and averted what might have been a dsstr.
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Ah, vowels...

Some don't know how the Great Plains were populated by European immigrants. There were companies which sent recruiters to various places to advertise the opportunities, and they were tailored to match regions. That's why a lot of Swedes and Norwegians wound up in Minnesota, etc. Accordingly, a lot of Poles, Czech, and Lithuanians wound up in Nebraska and Iowa. Yay, farmers!

Their names were Americanized at Ellis Island, of course, but by the 1980s, there was a cultural movement to "Reclaim your Name" and some people were changing back to their original family name. This led so an interesting political race in the Omaha area. One candidate ran as follows: "Ted Przybysz - 100% American!"

His (Kiowa Sioux) opponent? "Kathy Bloodknife - 100% Americaner!"

(pronounced "shib bish" BTW...)
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Atomic wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 4:08 pm Ah, vowels...

Some don't know how the Great Plains were populated by European immigrants. There were companies which sent recruiters to various places to advertise the opportunities, and they were tailored to match regions. That's why a lot of Swedes and Norwegians wound up in Minnesota, etc. Accordingly, a lot of Poles, Czech, and Lithuanians wound up in Nebraska and Iowa. Yay, farmers!

Their names were Americanized at Ellis Island, of course, but by the 1980s, there was a cultural movement to "Reclaim your Name" and some people were changing back to their original family name. This led so an interesting political race in the Omaha area. One candidate ran as follows: "Ted Przybysz - 100% American!"

His (Kiowa Sioux) opponent? "Kathy Bloodknife - 100% Americaner!"

(pronounced "shib bish" BTW...)
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Atomic wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 4:08 pm Ah, vowels...

Some don't know how the Great Plains were populated by European immigrants. There were companies which sent recruiters to various places to advertise the opportunities, and they were tailored to match regions. That's why a lot of Swedes and Norwegians wound up in Minnesota, etc. Accordingly, a lot of Poles, Czech, and Lithuanians wound up in Nebraska and Iowa. Yay, farmers!

Their names were Americanized at Ellis Island, of course, but by the 1980s, there was a cultural movement to "Reclaim your Name" and some people were changing back to their original family name. This led so an interesting political race in the Omaha area. One candidate ran as follows: "Ted Przybysz - 100% American!"

His (Kiowa Sioux) opponent? "Kathy Bloodknife - 100% Americaner!"

(pronounced "shib bish" BTW...)
My Polish-American friend in the Georgia Tech dorm who went by the pseudonym "Thaddeus Q. Przybysz" pronounced it "Pri-shi-bish" as nearly as I can recall after forty-five years.

{I definitely recall the "Pri" on the front, anyway.}
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Atomic wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 9:04 am Whenever I see the word "Dirndl" I think a vowel or two are missing. Then I remember "squirreled" has the most vowels for a single syllable word, and I shouldn't be so picky.
I thought "squirreled" was two syllables.
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AnotherFairportfan wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 7:42 pm
Atomic wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 9:04 am Whenever I see the word "Dirndl" I think a vowel or two are missing. Then I remember "squirreled" has the most vowels for a single syllable word, and I shouldn't be so picky.
I thought "squirreled" was two syllables.
As did I, but I guess it could be a regionalism. Much like pronouncing "Get on out of here!" as one word.
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Atomic wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 9:04 am Whenever I see the word "Dirndl" I think a vowel or two are missing. Then I remember "squirreled" has the most vowels for a single syllable word, and I shouldn't be so picky.
It has four vowels. So does "queue" - which also holds the record, in English, for the largest fraction of its letters being silent. (They are politely waiting their turn.)
Atomic wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 4:08 pm Ah, vowels...

Some don't know how the Great Plains were populated by European immigrants. There were companies which sent recruiters to various places to advertise the opportunities, and they were tailored to match regions. That's why a lot of Swedes and Norwegians wound up in Minnesota, etc. Accordingly, a lot of Poles, Czech, and Lithuanians wound up in Nebraska and Iowa. Yay, farmers!

Their names were Americanized at Ellis Island, of course, but by the 1980s, there was a cultural movement to "Reclaim your Name" and some people were changing back to their original family name. This led so an interesting political race in the Omaha area. One candidate ran as follows: "Ted Przybysz - 100% American!"

His (Kiowa Sioux) opponent? "Kathy Bloodknife - 100% Americaner!"

(pronounced "shib bish" BTW...)
When I met my wife, she was working for a guy whose last name was Przybycien - pronounced "per-bitchen".
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Warrl wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 1:08 am
Atomic wrote: Wed Jan 16, 2019 9:04 am Whenever I see the word "Dirndl" I think a vowel or two are missing. Then I remember "squirreled" has the most vowels for a single syllable word, and I shouldn't be so picky.
It has four vowels. So does "queue" - which also holds the record, in English, for the largest fraction of its letters being silent. (They are politely waiting their turn.)
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Queue is also the record holder for English Word Most Likely To Be Misspelled.
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jwhouk wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:48 pm Queue is also the record holder for English Word Most Likely To Be Misspelled.
Well, it's a hairy problem.
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Dave wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:50 pm
jwhouk wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:48 pm Queue is also the record holder for English Word Most Likely To Be Misspelled.
Well, it's a hairy problem.
What about faze? I've found a lot of people misspell that. Not to mention ensure. People keep spelling it as 'insure'. "He wanted to insure that the bomb went off as planned."

BTW, I should upbraid you for that pun.
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I can't find the 'tying up the Tasuki' scene from Sanjuro...


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Dave wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:50 pm
jwhouk wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:48 pm Queue is also the record holder for English Word Most Likely To Be Misspelled.
Well, it's a hairy problem.
So the young lady and elderly gentleman were waiting in queue at a British bus stop for the coach to come by. It was a warm, breezy spring morning, and as luck would have it, the wind lifted the young lady's skirt. Not wanting to add to the lady's embarrassment, he tried to change the subject.

"My! Airy today, isn't it?"

"Wot'd you expect, guv'nor? Feathers?"
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Bookworm wrote: Fri Jan 18, 2019 10:26 pm
Dave wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:50 pm
jwhouk wrote: Thu Jan 17, 2019 12:48 pm Queue is also the record holder for English Word Most Likely To Be Misspelled.
Well, it's a hairy problem.
What about faze? I've found a lot of people misspell that. Not to mention ensure. People keep spelling it as 'insure'. "He wanted to insure that the bomb went off as planned."
BTW, I should upbraid you for that pun.
Fuse/fuze
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