Quote of the Day
I’m sorry, but a house like this is not 100 shares of some under performing stock. It’s an historic piece of Brooklyn, built for the daughter of one of Bklyn’s big shots, and a fine example of eclectic turn of the century architecture. There are no other houses like this in CHN. The interior is…
I’m sorry, but a house like this is not 100 shares of some under performing stock. It’s an historic piece of Brooklyn, built for the daughter of one of Bklyn’s big shots, and a fine example of eclectic turn of the century architecture. There are no other houses like this in CHN. The interior is full of first quality period detailing, and the entire property could be someone’s dream home, a wonderful place to raise a family, or grow old sitting on the porch. I really hate it when a place like this is reduced to a calculation of percentages, and formulas for tossing it around like a bean bag. The amount of time, money, research and heartache the guys who lost it put in shows that a house is more than just the price, or the comps. It’s also an emotional, physical reaction to a potential home. That is so often totally forgotten here.
— by Montrose Morris in 1094 Park Place Finally Sells
Other US pronunication I never got used to is substituting ‘o’ for ‘a’.
Such as the car brand over here being pronounced ‘Mozda’ etc
everyone I knew growing up said Longiland but I always said Long Island
radiator was raid-dee-ator
I had a knew a woman that called the “toilet”, the “terlet”.
And “spoil it” was “spurlet”.
I pronounce it road
How do you pronounce ‘street’?
I seem to be one of few left who doesn’t say ‘shtreet’.
lezshure. (when I am trying to sound culch-aad)
I like the way New Yorkers say Little Italy (liddl idaly) – its so singsong. They’ve already finished and ordered the pasta while I’m still forming the last T.
“ENY, how about RAAA-dee-A=da”
That works too.
ENY, how about RAAA-dee-A=da (first syllable pronounced just like raaaadical, raaancid, etc.)?