Maryam: As far as I could tell, he meant "ominous".
Goosey: LOL
wintermute: "Omnious" = similar to everything.
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ThePhan: It always makes me a little crazy when people pronounced "mischievous" with an extra E sound in it. Where does that COME from? Is it from an old school spelling that's trickled down?
Sentynel: Phan: I believe it comes from misspelling "mischievous" as "mischevious".
Goosey: Phan: Mischievious... huh. I guess you're right. That i doesn't go in there, does it?
Sentynel: By analogy to various other adjectives ending in -ious.
ThePhan: "A pronunciation \mis -ˈ ; ch& #275;-v& #275;-& #601;s\ and a consequent spelling mischievious are of long standing: evidence for the spelling goes back to the 16th century. Our pronunciation files contain modern attestations ranging from dialect speakers to Herbert Hoover. But both the pronunciation and the spelling are still considered nonstandard."
ThePhan: Ooer, that didn't copy well. Heh. But that's the mis-chee-vee-ous pronunciation.
Sam: That's a hell of a pronunciation.
Sam: Now I know why people always get confused when I say something like, "Yes, but I do have a bit of a misandhash seven twelve champersand number two seventy-five, vand octothorpe two seventy five again, and number 601s streak in me."
Sentynel: Phan: I believe it comes from misspelling "mischievous" as "mischevious".
Goosey: Phan: Mischievious... huh. I guess you're right. That i doesn't go in there, does it?
Sentynel: By analogy to various other adjectives ending in -ious.
ThePhan: "A pronunciation \mis -ˈ ; ch& #275;-v& #275;-& #601;s\ and a consequent spelling mischievious are of long standing: evidence for the spelling goes back to the 16th century. Our pronunciation files contain modern attestations ranging from dialect speakers to Herbert Hoover. But both the pronunciation and the spelling are still considered nonstandard."
ThePhan: Ooer, that didn't copy well. Heh. But that's the mis-chee-vee-ous pronunciation.
Sam: That's a hell of a pronunciation.
Sam: Now I know why people always get confused when I say something like, "Yes, but I do have a bit of a misandhash seven twelve champersand number two seventy-five, vand octothorpe two seventy five again, and number 601s streak in me."
The string of letters I posted to RinkWorks didn't have all those spaces in it - I actually had to put those back in when I pasted it here because it copied over correctly when I put it in the post, making Sam's joke very confusing. Heh.
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