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Elizium23: cosmetology in Real Life

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cosmetology in Real Life

FaviFake at 13:46, 22 July 2025

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2.204.195.162 at 12:56, 22 July 2025

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172.69.194.2: Undo revision 351334 by Anonymous64 (talk) Search/Replace vandalism

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Anonymous64: Thank god they didn't change my username

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Thank god they didn't change my username

162.158.122.190 at 15:31, 22 November 2020

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These Are Not The Comments You Are Looking For at 23:27, 17 October 2020

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Po8crg at 13:03, 17 October 2020

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162.158.75.160 at 09:11, 17 October 2020

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	Aaaaand we're back to tables. Who does that? There's a train you rarely see them elsewhere. [[Special:Contributions/2.204.195.162\|2.204.195.162]] 12:56, 22 July 2025 (UTC)		Aaaaand we're back to tables. Who does that? There's a train you rarely see them elsewhere. [[Special:Contributions/2.204.195.162\|2.204.195.162]] 12:56, 22 July 2025 (UTC)
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		+	Around the year 2000, I was using the public computers at a research university, where we were situated close by the reference desk. And I overheard a conversation between a young lady and the reference librarian about "cosmetology". He seemed skeptical that she was inquiring about cosmetology, and several times he described cosmology and the study of astronomy, the universe, etc. But she steadfastly insisted that she wanted to research "cosmetology", and I felt great sympathy for the reference librarian, who probably gave her the information she was asking for, and hopefully opened the door to a better understanding of seemingly-inconspicuous syllables. [[User:Elizium23\|Elizium23]] ([[User talk:Elizium23\|talk]]) 23:52, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

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	In my childhood dialect, "give" is very weakly voiced and the hard-G gif pronunciation is very similar. I now voice it much more strongly, but that question took me back to growing up in Merseyside, England. [[User:Po8crg\|Po8crg]] ([[User talk:Po8crg\|talk]]) 13:03, 17 October 2020 (UTC)		In my childhood dialect, "give" is very weakly voiced and the hard-G gif pronunciation is very similar. I now voice it much more strongly, but that question took me back to growing up in Merseyside, England. [[User:Po8crg\|Po8crg]] ([[User talk:Po8crg\|talk]]) 13:03, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
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 I'm half remembering in the original Thunderbirds series, an old NASA colleague of Geoff Tracey who 'poses' as an generic ¿Deep South? country-bumpkin/local-yokel (grown up in the area, though obviously smart enough to get into NASA and then later 'retire' to become a trusted International Rescue local agent... or so I may extrapolate) calling Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward, with whom he was clearly familiar, "Penn elope" (to "rhyme with antelope"). I shall have to dig up my complete VHS tapes to confirm... and probably spend a couple of days just watching them all, for old times' sake ...but clearly the script called for an uneducated (mis)pronunciation of her name - maybe feigned as part of his act/through habit. So if it aint an actual misconception/affectation by ''someone'', that the scriptwriters (or voice-actor) used, then it needs far more explanation. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.72|162.158.155.72]] 02:43, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 :When I was very very young, I did believe that Penelope rhymed with antelope. But ''The Perilous Perils of Penelope Pitstop'' soon put paid to that. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.52|141.101.98.52]] 10:27, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 Re: "genre" - what about the Alex Trebek pronunciation? [[User:QoopyQoopy|QoopyQoopy]] ([[User talk:QoopyQoopy|talk]]) 03:52, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

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 In slightly expanding the "animated video file" entry I left out the following (related, but possibly slightly too unrelated) information. In Louis Carol's Jabberwocky, the phrase "Gyre and Gymble" (in its initial version, with "y"s in there where all "i"s would later be, but also "y<sup>e</sup>" for "the", or rather the y-like character it would take too long to conveniently copy into here) was undoubtedly doubly a hard-G. "Gimbling" was apparently derived from the action of punching holes for "gimlets" (possibly a feeding behaviour, the slithy toves (slimy+lithe creatures that are part badger, part lizard and part corkscrew) presumably poking their noses into the ground). "Gyring" is spinning like a "gyroscope" (to further send their helical snouts deeper). Both are authoritatively intended to be hard-Gs as even "gyroscope" was, at that time, so mouthed. Though I've heard many a "jire and gimble" in modern recitation (the reader missing the likely opportunity for aliteration), as well as the double-hard-G approaches. Interestingly also the occasional "jire and jimble" version, presumably the reader doubling-down on their soft-G choice for the former ''and'' respecting the repetition intuitively intended. Me, I'm probably inclined to doubling the hard version, but it's been so long since ever I had to recite it that I can't even remember what I might have initially cold-read it as. ;)
-Additionally additionally, the product "Jif" (bathroom cleaning cream) which was supposed to be the homophonic inspiration for the "gif" file's soft-G, was changed (in the UK market) maybe two decades ago to "Cif" - apparently to match the China Europe marketing name ("J" varies from soft-G to a 'hard-Y' over there, possibly even to other sounds). But there was much derision at the time by those who pointed out the new issue of whether it was a hard-C ("kif") or soft-C ("sif"), whatever the TV ads announcing the change said (soft!). ((Not sure when exactly that happened, especially in relation to the Opal Fruits->Starburst and Marathon->Snickers renamings, etc, but I think there was also eye-rolling at the changing of a long-recognised major (localised) brand-name for perhaps rather crass 'business' reasons.)) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.154|141.101.98.154]] 19:44, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
+Additionally additionally, the product "Jif" (bathroom cleaning cream) which was supposed to be the homophonic inspiration for the "gif" file's soft-G, was changed (in the UK market) maybe two decades ago to "Cif" - apparently to match the mainland Europe marketing name ("J" varies from soft-G to a 'hard-Y' over there, possibly even to other sounds). But there was much derision at the time by those who pointed out the new issue of whether it was a hard-C ("kif") or soft-C ("sif"), whatever the TV ads announcing the change said (soft!). ((Not sure when exactly that happened, especially in relation to the Opal Fruits->Starburst and Marathon->Snickers renamings, etc, but I think there was also eye-rolling at the changing of a long-recognised major (localised) brand-name for perhaps rather crass 'business' reasons.)) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.154|141.101.98.154]] 19:44, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 Mad props to Randall for running the survey questions on @xkcd twitter. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.141.14|172.68.141.14]] 23:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 In my childhood dialect, "give" is very weakly voiced and the hard-G gif pronunciation is very similar.  I now voice it much more strongly, but that question took me back to growing up in Merseyside, England. [[User:Po8crg|Po8crg]] ([[User talk:Po8crg|talk]]) 13:03, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

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 :Question 8 sounds like a hybrid, to me, with another part coming from a glow worm / firefly question. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.68.12|141.101.68.12]] 10:19, 15 October 2020 (UTC)
 ::I don't think he had an specific real animal in mind there, as though people are saying segments can resemble scales, they aren't really the same thing, and nothing with many legs is truly "scaly", and the things people are coming up with, though it's possible they could be in an attic, they don't primarily live just in those to the point that is one of the characteristics people would describe them with (any such thing can be found elsewhere as well, and probably seen more often outside of attics as many people don't enter attics often.)--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.160|162.158.75.160]] 09:11, 17 October 2020 (UTC)
 seems to be referring to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholcidae these] to me. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.169|173.245.52.169]] 12:30, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

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 Fun fact: shallots, scallops, and scallions ran against each other in [[1529: Bracket]]. (This will probably end up in the Trivia tab when one is created.) [[Special:Contributions/172.69.10.135|172.69.10.135]] 20:50, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
 :Apparently "scallops" is used in the UK for 'potato fritters', but in ''my'' youth in family camping trips the term was used for (fried) potato slices - like 'chips' (UK type) in thickness, but cut only in one dimension, not two. Often in the same pan, at the same time, as the sausages for the first night's meal, so with the distinct taste of lard and sausage-fat. I assume there's other names for this (greasy, possibly slightly charred/sausage-char-coated in places) delicacy. Similar slices (from boiled tatties, which might have been the preprepared state of the slices fried as above) were also ate un(re)heated in a salad/generic packed-lunch context. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.158.247|162.158.158.247]] 18:23, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
 Cosmetology both sounds like "Cosmology" but it's also the fancy word for people who study cosmetics. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.174.92|172.68.174.92]] 21:22, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

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		+	In my childhood dialect, "give" is very weakly voiced and the hard-G gif pronunciation is very similar. I now voice it much more strongly, but that question took me back to growing up in Merseyside, England. [[User:Po8crg\|Po8crg]] ([[User talk:Po8crg\|talk]]) 13:03, 17 October 2020 (UTC)