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Gordon
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| Khakis also refer to a casual type of pants, a style popularized by stores like the Gap. |
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dduck
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 5:08 pm Post subject: Re: RP-speak |
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| Albulbul wrote: |
"kakhi" is pronounced like /car key/ ????????????????????????????
Only if you are one of the 5 percent of the UK population who speak Received Pronunciation !!!!!!! |
You're right that only a small percentage of people in England speak RP. But millions of English people pronounce "Car" as "Kah".
BTW, I'm not one of them. 
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dmb
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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| Why is ther so much interest in 'kakhi' Is it this season's new black? oh well I guess I'm going have to change my wardrobe again. |
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dyak
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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| What's the difference between kakhi, khaki or kahki then? |
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Gordon
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 10:02 pm Post subject: |
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The spelling  |
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johnslat
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| Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 11:38 pm Post subject: I pahrk my cahr in the Hahrvard Yahrd |
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Dear dduck,
" But millions of English people pronounce "Car" as "Kah". "
And, you can add hundreds of thousands ( if not more ) of the residents of Boston, Massachusetts, as well. I've pretty much lost my Boston accent, but I find it resurfaces whenever I return there.
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khmerhit
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 5:00 am Post subject: |
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| Speaking of Harvard Yard and Boston accents, I was sorry to read that George Plimtpon died. Now there was a pukka sahib! |
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Albulbul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 5:31 am Post subject: Who ? |
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| George who ? |
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AKA
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:29 am Post subject: |
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A few seconds diligent research shows the words from which khaki originates, in both Urdu and Middle Persian, give it the car sound, as in an English car, where the r is not sounded.
But the way foreigners speak their own languages has never had an impact on Americans. |
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denise
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 7:40 am Post subject: |
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| AKA wrote: |
| But the way foreigners speak their own languages has never had an impact on Americans. |
Hey!!!
We are by no means the only people that adapt pronunciations. I see daily evidence of such adaptations in Japan.
Whoah--it's a rare occasion indeed when I feel the need to defend my Americanness.
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Roger
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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I pronounce it as Denise said - the 'A' in kha as in 'fAther'.
I have always used 'khaki' as either as in khaki shorts, or a synonym of persimmons.
I do not know why the latter. Some Aussie informed me it was wrong. |
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johnslat
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 2:36 pm Post subject: A Paper Lion |
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Dear Albulbul,
George Plimpton - writer, " participatory journalist ", sportsman, raconteur, founder of editor of " The Paris Review ", actor, patron of the arts/artists, and a gentleman who definitely would have pronounced " khaki " with a very broad " a ".
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030927/ap_on_en_ot/obit_plimpton_12
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Lynn
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| Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Roger wrote: |
I pronounce it as Denise said - the 'A' in kha as in 'fAther'.
I have always used 'khaki' as either as in khaki shorts, or a synonym of persimmons.
I do not know why the latter. Some Aussie informed me it was wrong. |
I love that fruit. The first time I went to Japan was as an exchange student. My dorm mother gave me a basket full of kaki. I had no idea how to eat them. I tried biting into one as an apple and was disgusted. Later a dorm sister showed me how to eat one, and I LOVED it!!! I've never seen that fruit in the U.S., I just assumed it was called. "Kaki". Y'know like, sushi is sushi; no translation.
I thought the same thing about the "semi", thie summer time insects. I love "semi", and there arent' any in my hometown, so I thought they were indegeous to Japan. |
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schwirl
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 10:59 am Post subject: |
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| Definitely 'car-key' where I come from (NE England) as 'kak-key' would be understood as 'cackey' from the word 'cack' - meaning not very good at all. |
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donfan
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Us Aussies will pronounce the kah as the sound in fa-ther because if pronounced like the sound in ca-t sounds like cacky which in Australia means sh*tty. |
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