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“You say Tomato, I say Potato, Let’s call the whole meal off!”

April 21st, 2006

by Steve Brady

· 3 Comments · Humor, Life

Language Log: Heated words about “sauna”

Wow… Frazz, one of my all-time favorite comicstrips (I am not such as avid junky as my brother and father) makes the big-time in the Language Log! Okay, so I enjoy the language log for their defense of freedom of speech AND their defense of speech…

But this one, well, it “da bomb.”

So, how do YOU pronounce Sauna?

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3 responses so far ↓

  • 1 ciao~ // Apr 21, 2006 at 7:25 am

    SAW-na…lol… its very interesting… i mean so many of our words come from other languages. So we change and others we do not. I think its all a matter a preference and nothing to get soo upset about. so people say things differently, no biggy… But an interesting comic anyways…

  • 2 Wendy // Apr 22, 2006 at 10:28 am

    saw-NA? I’d have try to say it naturally in a sentance like “I’m going to go rest in the sauna for awhile, wanna join me?”

  • 3 TM // Apr 22, 2006 at 1:56 pm

    I’m likeing Wendy’s idea…. er, pronounciation. *blink*

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