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
spelling
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Re: spelling
Hobo is how we spell itTabor wrote:Hey all, I thought I'd share some interesting spellings of various instruments that I've seen in teaching elementary school.
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Woodwinds: ... hobo
What worries me though is that you encounter spelling like this not just with elementary shool children, but with otherwise intelledgend adults as well...
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Re: spelling
Freudian slipcorbasse 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...
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Re: spelling
The choice of 9 out of 10 "whiz kids", I suspectTabor wrote:... last, but not least: The peeano
Sounds like he considered it a "grizzly" task!bloke wrote:... "buffed beartone"
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Re: spelling
Nope. Done it on porpoise.ThomasDodd wrote:Freudian slipcorbasse 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...
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Mark
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...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 think it's a conspiracy!
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per-CUS-sionistMark wrote:... all of the nouns for various musical instrument players have the accent on the first syllable: hornist, cellist, bassist, tubist...
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"