So I married a foreigner...

[arib]

Aliza was reading some news about the effects that the recent snow has had on the state when the following conversation ensued:

Aliza- It's a good thing we don't live in Skatooty, they don't have any electricity.

Ari- Skatooty?

Aliza- Yeah, Skatooty.

Ari- Do you mean Scituate?

Aliza- Probably.

She then went on to comment on how they were situated poorly...


Does this make our child half-toaster?

Comments

[bluepapercup]

HAhahahahah ohhhhhh! *laughs until little tears appear*

<3 you both!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

No, that's not what makes your child half-toaster.

[mick-hale.livejournal.com]

I am very confused, though my guess is this has something to do with Bawstin and the notable lack of the pronunciation of the letter "R".

[pseydtonne.livejournal.com]

Since there is no 'R' sound in the word Scituate, your guess is invalid. However there is a clear New England thing to this.

The majority of town names in Massachusetts come from place names in England (yes, this includes Braintree). Some of the names have existed for so long that their pronunciation has mutated dramatically. For example: the city of Woburn was originally spelled "Woubourne" and is still pronounced more like that word -- "WUH-buhn".

Scituate is pronounced "SIH-choo-iht". However it looks very Latin, so an outside reading the word and not hearing it could thing "skuh-TOO-uh-TEE" and swallow that second 'uh' (schwa).

I was driving my girlfriend to my hometown in upstate New York over the holiday. She saw the word "Schenectady" and totally could not wrap her head around it. This word is not very phonetic -- "skuh-NECK-tuh-DEE". She kept turning it into synecdoche. She was tripping on the syllables having consonants at each border.

Schenectady has three exits on the Thruway. This allows for an amazing amount of arguing over four syllables.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Very cute! (I have a friend from Hull, we decided years ago that he's a "Hullion" and anyone from Scituate is a "Scituation"...)