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LanternWaste

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27. What really, really mortifies me is our pronunciation of the name 'Montague' as 'Mon-tayg.'

Reply to lpbk2713 (Reply #21)

Thu Dec 17, 2015, 01:12 PM

Dec 2015

I take it in stride. Texas, like all geographic regions, has its share of buffoons and half-wits, along with its share of progressives and liberals... the difference between one region and another being merely in degrees.

What really, really mortifies me is our pronunciation of the name 'Montague' as 'Mon-tayg.'

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