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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

5:7:5

"spoiled" is two syllables for haiku purposes*
"spoilt" would be one**

*Helsinki Haiku Accords, 1976
** Paris Climate Accords, 2010, redacted and modified per the Monroe Doctrine, 1811

4:7:5. Do you think "Grotius" is pronounced Gro-ti-us or Gro-she-us? Everyone* pronounces it "Gro-shus".



*Not everyone really. As a matter of fact, no one else that I've ever met at all has ever attempted to pronounce this user name. So I'll 'initiate coverage' by coining the proper pronunciation my way. Since this is the current standard (June 5, 2017, 11:16am CDT/12:16pm EDT), you are now in violation of cited Accords.

ETA: Neener. [:'(]

Grotius Gracious, what a spat! [:'(]

ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

5:7:5

"spoiled" is two syllables for haiku purposes*
"spoilt" would be one**

*Helsinki Haiku Accords, 1976
** Paris Climate Accords, 2010, redacted and modified per the Monroe Doctrine, 1811

4:7:5. Do you think "Grotius" is pronounced Gro-ti-us or Gro-she-us? Everyone* pronounces it "Gro-shus".



*Not everyone really. As a matter of fact, no one else that I've ever met at all has ever attempted to pronounce this user name. So I'll 'initiate coverage' by coining the proper pronunciation my way. Since this is the current standard (June 5, 2017, 11:16am CDT/12:16pm EDT), you are now in violation of cited Accords.

ETA: Neener. [:'(]

Grotius Gracious, what a spat! [:'(]

Keep it in 5:7:5, you hoser!

For example:

Dan (Canoerebel)
Bizarre Pronunciation
Makes me shake my head

When told that there was no such word as "cooter" in Webster's Dictionary, a Confederate private* replied, "I have as much right to make a dictionary as Mr. Webster."

He was right, of course. By the same token, we are all endowned by our Creator with the inalienable right to pronounce newly minted words that noone knows how to pronouse. Gro-shush sounds awful to the ear. "Groh-tee-us" is a bit more musical and pleasing....and is therefore the preferred pronunciation for haiku purposes.

Does Chickenboy think
"epp-ih-tome" is more pleasing
than "epp-ih-toe-me"?

*Sam Watkins, 1st Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Company Aytch: A Sideshow of the Big Show.

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
By the same token, we are all endowned by our Creator with the inalienable right to pronounce newly minted words that noone knows how to pronouse.

Trying to say words
Difficulty to pronounce
Moreso to pronouse

ORIGINAL: Canoerebel
we are all endowned by our Creator with the inalienable right to pronounce newly minted words that noone knows how to pronouse.

Newly minted words
Made of whole cloth: like 'endowned'
Are we talking chicks?

Not just "endowned"
I also mis-wrote "pronouse"
I'm an editor?

"Don't quit your day job"
Wait. What? You're an editor?
I take it all back. [;)]