How do you pronounce my name?
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How do you pronounce my name?
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Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:39 pm
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:34 pmIn my part of Merica, you'd be Gram. Nobody I know would say Grey ham, though.
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:39 pmHow to pronounce a name is interesting, as is the root meaning of names.
Names sounding and spelled quite different depending on region/country to the point one may not see a connection - Lars , my middle name as example is in English - Lawrence/Laurence, from Latin- Laurent/Laurentius
Gravelly home - Grahame
Names sounding and spelled quite different depending on region/country to the point one may not see a connection - Lars , my middle name as example is in English - Lawrence/Laurence, from Latin- Laurent/Laurentius
Gravelly home - Grahame
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 3:28 amGram, like the mass measurement, or the cracker.
They taste kind of like a digestive biscuit but there's no digestive stuff, just cinnamon and honey. You toast marshmallows and stick them between a couple with some chocolate to make S'mores
They taste kind of like a digestive biscuit but there's no digestive stuff, just cinnamon and honey. You toast marshmallows and stick them between a couple with some chocolate to make S'mores
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:14 amorigami_itto wrote:Gram, like the mass measurement, or the cracker.
They taste kind of like a digestive biscuit but there's no digestive stuff, just cinnamon and honey. You toast marshmallows and stick them between a couple with some chocolate to make S'mores
The biscuit pic on the box do look gravelly
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 5:29 amThey're not too crumbly. You give them to kids for an easy snack.
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 7:11 amSteve James wrote:In my part of Merica, you'd be Gram. Nobody I know would say Grey ham, though.
Never heard of a "Grey-hem" here. Yikes. I'll miss "Gram Bee" posting here.
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:06 amStrangely, people in the UK with a deep, deep Black Country/Midlands accent (Birmingham) say it as "Gram".
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:07 amGrahamB wrote:Strangely, people in the UK with a deep, deep Midlands accent (Birmingham) say it as "Gram".
Oddly enough, people from Birmingham (Alabama) here would be more likely to pronounce "gram" as "gray-um"
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:32 amGrahamB wrote:Strangely, people in the UK with a deep, deep Black Country/Midlands accent (Birmingham) say it as "Gram".
Gram or Graim?
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 8:43 amI had a boss from Brum who said it as "Gram" but with that "a" as almost an "i" sound he mentions in the video.
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 12:56 pmOrigin of Graham's crackers:
Graham Crackers
©Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons
Reverend Sylvester Graham thought that a preoccupation with sensual pleasure was a result of a terrible diet. After all, his own diet was quite rigid and bland. Graham was a vegetarian who'd turned his back on spices, tobacco, sugar, and caffeine—or in other words—flavor.
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:19 pmorigami_itto wrote:GrahamB wrote:Strangely, people in the UK with a deep, deep Midlands accent (Birmingham) say it as "Gram".
Oddly enough, people from Birmingham (Alabama) here would be more likely to pronounce "gram" as "gray-um"
this is a strange irony
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2024 1:40 pmeverything wrote:origami_itto wrote:GrahamB wrote:Strangely, people in the UK with a deep, deep Midlands accent (Birmingham) say it as "Gram".
Oddly enough, people from Birmingham (Alabama) here would be more likely to pronounce "gram" as "gray-um"
this is a strange irony
I imagine it rhyming. "Shazam! It's Graham! Golllleeee!"
Re: How do you pronounce my name?
Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2024 7:45 amI’d pronounce it “Gray Am” until otherwise corrected by the owner.