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Sunday, February 10th, 2008
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| 5:04p | How's your geolography? This being a votation year, and I believe all voters should be knowledgeucated. You can't not be a modern Usian citizen without you have a solid groundling in your geopolitical knowledgings of this ever-changing world in which we live in. Therefore, hereforthwith is a thoroughlessly up-to-dated learnucational world map of the USA. Studificate it, brush up it and learn it byheartically.  Current Mood:  learninged |
| 5:08p | Writer's Block: Repeat After Me... I've heard it pronounced "Myootchler", "Mootchler", "Mutcher", "Mulcher" (suddenly I'm a gardening tool?) and "Mulchler". It's pronounced just like it's spelled: "Mutchler". Say "butler", and then replace "but" with "much" as in "very much". That's all! My family and I spent a period of 9 months back in 1981 in Switzerland. Ironically, although "Mutchler" is originally a German name, the German-speaking Swiss people had trouble pronouncing it, because of the Anglicized spelling (it was originally "Mutschler"). They'd try to say stuff like "Moot-kh-lehr". The spelling gets mangled, too, mainly on mail addresses. I've seen stuff like MUTHCLER, MUTCHELER and METZHLER. One time the phone rang, and I answered it, and the person at the other end asked for what sounded like "Elmachella?" I eventually recognized this as a mispronunciation of a misspelling of a mispronunciation: Someone somewhere had inserted an extra syllable, "Mutch-a-ler", which got written down as MUTCHELER, which got paired up with my mom's first initial, L (L. MUTCHELER), which this lady tried to pronounce as "El Ma-chell-er". I tell ya, some days it hardly seems worth having a name! |
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