What is the difference between a vase

This porcelain vase, or bowl, dates from the turn of the last century — later pieces generally were marked with country of origin. Those pieces may have loftier pedigrees, but this vase shared by reader Natalie Abderhalden of Punta Gorda is no less loved.

It dates from the late 19th century and probably was made in Europe — Germany or Austria. Your email address will not be published. Search for: Search Submit Menu. The difference between a vase and a vahz? Read on. Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. It does not peeve me when I hear my British friends pronounce it as you describe, for it is appropriate that they do so.

DDS: Thank you. I, like you, celebrate the differences and diversity of this nation. However, I believe one must make choices in matters of pronunciation for oneself, and this is an obvious one, at least for me. Blue: I agree, vahz sounds appropriate to me when spoken by those who adhere to the Queen's English, but it is like fingernails on a blackboard to my ear when said by an American.

I had forgotten about the deliciousness of "Conci-air," thank you for noting it. I tend to agree that vahz sounds so ridiculous and luckily rarely hear it. However, if I had ever said "en-vuh-lope" as opposed to the correct "on-vuh-lope" as a child I'm sure I would have gotten some nasty looks from my family! My step-mother was ever on the lookout for piss elegant pronunciations, words and phrases- as you point out with your usual spot on accuracy, the verbal equivalent of the raised pinky.

Her particular bete noirs were "luncheon" for the mid day meal, "home" for the place you live and "drapes" or, even worse "drapery" for those things around your window. I was about 12 years old when someone, in conversation, referred to an expensive apartment building as "exclusive".

I thought that my step mother would blow a gasket. But what do I know. On a separate, but related topic: A dear friend's mother told me that years ago 's I would guess ,she was a new student at Foxcroft.

At an early lunch eon , bananas were served. Was this a trap? She picked one up and began to peal it, only to have the teacher at the head of the table slam down her utensils and bellow, "Never let me see you eating like a monkey again", and proceeded to demonstrate how a banana can be eaten with a knife and fork. My friend's mother demonstrated. The only 'grating' pronunciation I can think of is my MD teaching: tomahto I like the ah sound, much more than ay, in this case. I agree it can be spun into an obnoxious nasal noise-or not.

Once in a while, those affected pronunciations are endearing, don't you think? A pokey entrance hall is referred to as a Foyer or rather Foy-ay. That sort of thing can either set your teeth on edge or make you smile inwardly. Personally I'd rather hear Vahz any day of the week than have to accept a term like "friending. With the word Valet pronounced like Ballet. I'm a registered Democrat! BTW, that the extended little finger is said to date back to the introduction of tea to the denizens of Gin Lane.

Which gives it just the right sort of provenance -- a "ginteelism," if you like. I have never, ever said Vahz except, as you do, when joking.

Hence in a day of summer shopkeeping, I can go from Southern to east coast lockjaw to Brooklynese in the span of a single hourmost embarrassing, and apparently incurable. As for onvelopes, I plead guilty and see no reason to change it, unlike tomawto, which I hate hearing escape my lips. If only mothers now were teaching their children not to use cellphones in public the 21st century mutation of public gum chewing except of course, the mothers are doing it themselves.

Fun post. In my little book of quirkiness, it's a vahz if I paid over dollars for it! It's so similar to things I've heard my aunts say that I almost felt like I was a teenager sitting at the dinner table again. So much is regionally determined. Take the region of the USA called Appalachia Maine is where all the Frenchies are, after all. Go away. Oh, and there are pronunciations that are essentially politically- and historically-motivated snubs.

Have you ever read the Byron poem Don Jewann? Or seen a production of Waiting for God-oh? I also hate the substitution of "home" for "house. Do not get me started on the diamond cartels. I say "vayce. Bless your dear sweet unsnobbish Democratic mother's soul. Oh my, I'm late to the party again. Well in my case, what can i say English learned as a second language in a NE boarding school. Glad we've cleared that up.

Magnuspetrie: Granny Darling born in did say "luncheon" but MD did not, would in fact snort derisively when anyone of a younger generation to Granny did. I use "luncheon" and "bruncheon" ironically and for fun at times here on RD but never use them in speaking, except playfully. Izzy: I remember your mother well, and as a boy thought she was English when I first met her, given the way she spoke. It is only as an adult that I came to understand that she was an American aristocrat of the old school, and spoke as one with a clipped English-influenced accent, which she and her kind were carefully raised to do, and so in her case was entirely appropriate.

Magnuspetrie: PS, that Foxcroft story is a stitch, I shall always remember what that teacher said with pleasure. Reminds me slightly of the time when I was a boy and attending a country day school in Virginia not that far from Foxcraft, actually where we were forbidden to use anything other than a knife and fork when eating fried chicken, which seemed perplexingly absurd to me at the time, and laughably so today.

Oh my, this brought back memories. When I went to boarding school in Washington, DC, in , I was completely shocked to discover that fried chicken was to be eaten using knife and fork. At home, there were very, very few food items we were allowed to pick up and eat, but fried chicken had always been on the list. I do still say on-velope for the paper product, I just can't help it. I still say on-velope. The things that cover windows are curtains, and the stuffed thing that more than one person can sit on is a sofa.

You wipe your mouth with a napkin. Remember how grumpy it made Father when our accents got polluted by association with locals at the farm? Bewwnsburra for Boonesboro was anathema! DED: I, too, am apt to slide into the accent of others.

When I go to the UK everyone thinks I am from the opposite part of the country. I feel like an idiot when I realize I have done a chameleon shift, but unless I concsiously avoid it I am helpless. I also cannot harmonize while singing. Put me next to a soprano I will attempt to sing high, next to an alto I sing low.

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