Thursday, February 08, 2007

A Question

Do you pronounce the word "squirrel" with and "-er" or an "-ear"?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

-er. Other times an -ehr

ticknart said...

I find myself using -ear a lot recently. I think it comes from listening to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a bit too much, though.

Queenie said...

I say....'fucking rat'

Q

ticknart said...

Q, I don't think that actually answers the question.

Partial credit.

Jazz said...

er of course. the only way it can be pronounced.

Jazz said...

But then if the HGG says ear, who am I to say it's wrong.

42 and all that.

ticknart said...

It's not in the book, or anything. It's just that in the both Arthur and Random pronounce it with an -ear in one of the last radio shows. I don't know if that's the official HGG way of pronouncing it. Maybe it's just the way all mad Brits say it.