Pete C

That's what I take to control my jazzy cholesterol.

But the Canadians are right about the capital of Albania!

I remember, years ago, during a Charlie Parker birthday broadcast on WKCR, the announcer said "Begin the Begwine." Then I heard Phil Schaap's voice yelling from the background, "Begeen, you idiot!"

I can't speak for Mr. Jones/Baraka, but I can guess that he felt that Wayne Shorter went only so far and decided to refine his playing style as it was, rather than searching for new avenues of music, as Trane and others did. Maybe if he had heard Wayne's playing at The Plugged Nickel he might have felt differently.

I've actually never heard that. People here usually say "Spain"! Once in Sevilla, though, I asked an old guy where I could find the bus to Cadiz, but since I learned Spanish from Latinos in NY, I said "Cadeece." He was baffled, and finally said, "Ah, Cadeethe!" I can assure you, however, that Americans are perfectly able to say, "Nyah, nyah, nyah."

I don't remember if I mentioned this above, but a good example of Baraka's blinders is where in his postscript to an earlier piece extolling Wayne Shorter's promise he refers to his development as a disappointment--this at a time when he was making his classic Blue Note albums and writing his timeless compositions.

I happily allowed a split infinitive to stand in an ad I was proofing the other day. Nothing wrong with 'em. Unless you're one of "those types"... Does the Canadian pronunciation of house have anything to do with Scots ancestors? Quebecois French pronunciation is just plain weird. I went into a place and ordered a muffin, and the counter girl said, "Baaah?" She wasn't a sheep, she wanted to know if I wanted butter. Somebody once asked me the time on the street: "Avez-vous laaah?" And they pronounce 20, vingt, to rhyme with ain't.

Even if it wasn't, kudos for working the word into the conversation!

For folks with Spotify, here's a playlist I put together of Dylan covers. Among my favorites are Ann Peebles doing "Tonight I'll be Staying Here with You," Marlene Dietrich's "Blowin' in the Wind," Flatt & Scruggs' "Down in the Flood," The Ramones' "My Back Pages," Isaac Hayes' "Lay Lady Lay," Anthony & the Johnsons' "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" and Nina Simone's "Ballad of Hollis Brown."

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Even Merriam-Webster is "wrong"! http://mw1.m-w.com/cgi-bin/audio.pl?patina02.wav=patina I hope their site is blocked in Canada.

Do you have a point to make, or are you posting this as a public service?

Hey Tim, I use gonna all the time. Do you consider me an uneducated yahoo? Why does that one in particular bother you so much? It's been so common for so long that it's bound to eventually become "acceptable" in the lexicon. In fact, I personally find that nauseated now sounds pretentious and prissy when someone uses it.

Maybe as far as other managers are concerned, but not the people who have to work for them.

There is definitely a dichotomy. For instance, I've always found there to be a higher proportion of assholes among the managerial class, and at least as much incompetence.

They might also mean electronic.

Because maybe workers who have certain freedoms, respect and ways to blow off steam, take breaks, and utilize down time (I have a lot of it, but I have to be on call at my desk) are ultimately happier, possibly at least as productive, and less likely to leave?

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When I worked in IT for global financial institutions, the inefficiencies boggled the mind. When I started a contract at one now defunct big brokerage firm in 2006 it took close to 3 weeks to even get me access to their systems, so I and the consulting company were getting paid for me twiddling my thumbs full time. I also worked on several multimillion dollar multiyear projects that had the plug pulled after maybe 75% of the work had been completed.

Anyway, this is about pronunciation, not usage. So, how about people who say "mere" for "mirror."

However, the dictionary is full of words that were not there at one time, and these usages, if pervasive enough, might just get codified in the dictionaries too.

I saw that group, or at least a similar Daniel group, a few years back at Barbes, in my neighborhood--but it wasn't the music of King Oliver. They were fantastic.

Nonprofits in general. And as a writer I generally got better treatment and communication from places that paid than from literary magazines that only paid in copies.

You work 185 hours more than the annual average for United States. This is 162 hours more than the OECD average. However, I have a job where the workload really varies depending on time of year (I work in editorial for a retail chain). So from October through January I'm always busy, and the rest of the year it really varies, but from April through July I have quite a lot of down time. I still have to be in, but I can put my feet up on the desk and dream of a better day.