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I bet there is not one anchorman in 100 who can correctly pronounce the town I grew up in.
The reason for the initial post has zero to do with the town you grew up in. What I think significant is you ignore the two words you used that are misspelled. Since you read this thread, surely, you appreciate knowing they were wrong. Oh, well, I'm only teasing....
This reminds me of the story of the guy in California who got on a plane he thought was going to Oakland but ended up heading to Aukland, New Zealand instead. Years ago, long before current measures to ensure airline security -- true story.
This reminds me of the story of the guy in California who got on a plane he thought was going to Oakland but ended up heading to Aukland, New Zealand instead. Years ago, long before current measures to ensure airline security -- true story.
Having lived in Oakland in the 70's, I'd say he made a great oops/choice! LOL!!!
"The vehicle had a busted headlight and flat tire"-this is from CNN. I mentioned a while back that I keep seeing the word "busted" used this way but no one else had. It is on the CNN website today, describing the Boston Marathon bomber's escape from police.
I guess it must be okay to use "busted" now instead of plain old "broken." In school we were taught that it was wrong.
This reminds me of the story of the guy in California who got on a plane he thought was going to Oakland but ended up heading to Aukland, New Zealand instead. Years ago, long before current measures to ensure airline security -- true story.
I remember that story! The guy had been on the plane since London--it flew from London to NYC, then to LA, where he thought he was going to get off and get a connecting flight to Oakland, CA. But the flight attendant, a Brit, said "If you are going on to Auckland", stay on the plane, and he thought she said "Oakland", so he stayed on. He was stuck on that plane all the way to New Zealand, and then he had to catch the next flight back to California.
Having lived in Oakland in the 70's, I'd say he made a great oops/choice! LOL!!!
Ha, I just watched a show on Investigation Discovery channel the other day about the Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, a business that was a front for drug dealing and murder in Oakland. No, doesn't look like a nice place.
We have a little town here in Jersey called Oakland. Leafy neighborhoods, woods, parks. Much nicer.
This reminds me of the story of the guy in California who got on a plane he thought was going to Oakland but ended up heading to Aukland, New Zealand instead. Years ago, long before current measures to ensure airline security -- true story.
A number of years ago, an international flight from Europe to NYC was diverted to Bangor, Maine as a result of some sort of mechanical problem. While the passengers were told (in English) that they would be departing for NYC within a few hours, following emergency repairs, unfortunately, not everyone on that plane was fluent in English.
One of the passengers, who was from Poland, IIRC, somehow assumed that they had arrived at their final destination, and reportedly spent the next week touring the city of Bangor. Having been to Bangor, I can report that it is a decent place, but I can't imagine taking more than a couple of hours to see everything that is worth seeing. Since there are probably no buildings taller than 5 or 6 stories in Bangor, I wonder if he thought that those were NYC's world-famous skyscrapers.
Anyway, once it was discovered that this man was in the wrong place, he was flown to NYC, but he was quoted as saying that he thought Bangor was a great place to visit.
I don't recall if he was interviewed after touring NYC.
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The different pronunciations are interesting, though!
