RE: [CR]groups

(Example: Events)

From: "Beyer Jr., Chris (C.C.)" <cbeyer2@volvocars.com>
To: "'David Feldman'" <feldmanbike@yahoo.com>, chuckschmidt@earthlink.net, "'Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org'" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]groups
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2002 16:33:18 -0400
HOP-COUNT: 1


OK, let's agree to Anglicize everything. Ergo, from this moment on:

couscous= "coo-coo"

nicoise="nick-oyze"

Huret="your-it"

Peugeot="pug-it"

Somehow, I think not.

Chris _________________________________________________ Chris Beyer Volvo Cars of North America, LLC Customer Relations Rockleigh, NJ USA

Telephone: 800.550.5658 E-mail: CBeyer2@volvocars.com

-----Original Message----- From: David Feldman [mailto:feldmanbike@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 4:22 PM To: chuckschmidt@earthlink.net; 'Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org' Subject: Re: [CR]groups

Fake pronunciations always drive me nuts; I call groups "parts kits," pronounce Ideale saddles as if my roots were in Alabama, and Alex Singer like the word for a vocal musician!
David Feldman
Vancouver, WA


--- Chuck Schmidt wrote:


> Mark Bulgier wrote:
> >
> > Is the word groupo (or grouppo) accepted usage
> now? I sure don't like it,
> > retrogrouch that I am. Is it used tongue-in-cheek
> maybe?
> >
> > In Italian it's gruppo, in English it's group. I
> don't know what it is in
> > Japanese but it isn't groupo!
>
> I've taken to just calling all of them whether they
> are French, Japanese
> or Italian by the English/American word "group."
>
> Works for me...
>
> Chuck Schmidt
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