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spelling
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:04 am
by Tabor
Hey all, I thought I'd share some interesting spellings of various instruments that I've seen in teaching elementary school.
Brass:
tubba, tooba, barfitone (my favorite, the barf-i-tone)
trondrone, bagle, mouf peas, pickono trumpet
Strings: Vileone, Jello, voila
Woodwinds: sacksafone, buffoon, hobo
Percussion: The brass drum (is that why young drummers always seem to try to dent our tubas?)
and last, but not least: The peeano
Re: spelling
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:17 am
by corbasse
Tabor wrote:Hey all, I thought I'd share some interesting spellings of various instruments that I've seen in teaching elementary school.
....
Woodwinds: ... hobo
Hobo is how we spell it
What worries me though is that you encounter spelling like this not just with elementary shool children, but with otherwise intelledgend adults as well...
Re: spelling
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 4:01 pm
by ThomasDodd
corbasse wrote:What worries me though is that you encounter spelling like this not just with elementary shool children, but with otherwise
intelledgend adults as well...
Freudian slip
Re: spelling
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 10:23 pm
by Kevin Hendrick
Tabor wrote:... last, but not least: The peeano
The choice of 9 out of 10 "whiz kids", I suspect
bloke wrote:... "buffed beartone"
Sounds like he considered it a "grizzly" task!
Re: spelling
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:45 am
by corbasse
ThomasDodd wrote:corbasse wrote:What worries me though is that you encounter spelling like this not just with elementary shool children, but with otherwise
intelledgend adults as well...
Freudian slip
Nope. Done it on porpoise.
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:19 am
by MaryAnn
I have never understood why people say PEEanist. I mean, it is not a PEEano, it is a piANo. So one should be a PiANist.
MA, who says it as she thinks it should be said
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 11:27 am
by Chuck(G)
MaryAnn wrote:I have never understood why people say PEEanist. I mean, it is not a PEEano, it is a piANo. So one should be a PiANist.
MA, who says it as she thinks it should be said
I have a niece who called it a "panano" when she was small.
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:36 pm
by Mark
MaryAnn wrote:I have never understood why people say PEEanist. I mean, it is not a PEEano, it is a piANo. So one should be a PiANist.
MA, who says it as she thinks it should be said
I though about this; and I realized that all of the nouns for various musical instrument players have the accent on the first syllable: hornist, cellist, bassist, tubist...
I think it's a conspiracy!
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2005 2:44 pm
by Joe Baker
Mark wrote:... all of the nouns for various musical instrument players have the accent on the first syllable: hornist, cellist, bassist, tubist...
per-CUS-sionist
Oh, you said MUSICAL instruments...
ok, then... trom-BO-nist
(okay, maybe that's not so musical when
I play it, but...):oops:
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Joe Baker, who wonders if MA plays pp parts "pi-AN-is-sim-o"