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Why do Americans have problems with these words as you must have towns named Gloucester, Worcester, Edinburgh. My family originate from a village in south Cheshire called Cholmondeley but pronounced Chumley.
I live in Massachusetts where there are both Gloucester and Worcester - and Leominster and Leicester and Scituate and more - which provide endless entertainment from visiting "outtastaters" 
"glaw-sess-ter-shy-ur", just like it's written. rhymes with "war-chest-ter-shy-ur", as in the sauce. easy-peasy!
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you pretty much answered your own question with that second half... "i come from a village named Bzohxynsquenistershire... it's pronounced "Bob'"
as a former resident of new england, i can confirm that there are many towns with such UK names. i can also confirm that new englanders have their won special ways of slaughtering those names,
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Let's not undersell some of the city names here in the "new" world. The blending of a number of languages including the native tribes has given us some pretty good ones too.
Anyone want to take a shot at Ypsilanti?
Anyone want to take a shot at Ypsilanti?
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The longest lake name in the world is Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.
It is located in the town of Webster, Massachusetts, USA.
So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
It is located in the town of Webster, Massachusetts, USA.
So we have that going for us. Which is nice.
And you have Satan's Kingdom!
And in Wales
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
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Not enough beer in the world, Spleen, to make me want to try pronouncing that one.
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I can pronounce it my mum was Welsh although like me not a Welsh speaker.
Some of y'all are just making it up!
Nope, TweeBuffelsDoodGeskietMetEenKooelDeurJohannesPretoriusFontein is a real place, we promise it.Some of y'all are just making it up!
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Upper management making an impact:
https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr...th-video/RK=2/RS=bcue2J_mcNt39G.ynyXKTl0L1uM-
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That made me check the topic title again
direct link, skipping the search step: Horror video shows tech CEO plunge to death during grand on-stage
Maybe I'm the exception, but I really don't want to see that.
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After reading this: https://www.glassdoor.ca/Reviews/Vistek-Reviews-E435651.htm I'd like to watch it, but it no longer plays. (For the record, I was catastrophically injured in such an environment....Dilbert, however true, isn't funny for me since then.)
Is it just me that thinks that'd be a great way to go? Heck, I've been here long enough!
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Fair enough, but there is dark humor in someone of that standing choosing to make such a grandiose and childish entrance to his employees in celebration of himself. Reminded me of the puppet movie "Team America: World Police", stage set and all.
I don't disagree, I just don't need to see it.
I was just shocked to find out that :1, he chose to leave India to go to college in Allentown PA. And 2, he was able to get out of Allentown and be productive. (Joking my freinds who are out there)
Seriously though, terrible accident, but WTF was point of the stunt to begin with? This is how I hear the conversation in my mind:
"Hey let's walk out to a bunch of pyrotechnics. "
"Nah too common, needs to be much more grandiose!"
"Hey, I seem to remember a WWF wrestler that dropped into ring for event one time"
"How did that work out?"
"I'm telling you he killed it! It has left a permenent impression."
"Yes, let's do that!"
Seriously though, terrible accident, but WTF was point of the stunt to begin with? This is how I hear the conversation in my mind:
"Hey let's walk out to a bunch of pyrotechnics. "
"Nah too common, needs to be much more grandiose!"
"Hey, I seem to remember a WWF wrestler that dropped into ring for event one time"
"How did that work out?"
"I'm telling you he killed it! It has left a permenent impression."
"Yes, let's do that!"
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That is so wrong!
Too soon?That is so wrong!
It was like 25 years ago...
Ever wonder what happens to those bullets that idiots just shoot up into the air in "celebration"?
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Straight up is most likely ok but anything with any angle still going to have a lot momentum and will get ya.
If you can shoot straight up, accurately enough that you're the one who catches the bullet when it comes back down, then sure... straight up is OK.
Nobody should ever be just shooting into the air. Excepting shotguns loaded with birdshot, I suppose.
I'm not trying to get on your case, personally. But I believe in responsible gun ownership and I hate hearing about idiots firing into the air to "celebrate".
I agree, shooting in the air is stupid and dangerous. I was just referencing the post prior about the Mythbusters testing based on the terminal velocity of a bullet coming straight down
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