rec.autos.simulators

by **Pete** » Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:36:53

Never said we were the experts. I'm just telling how they pronounce it.
For all I care people can call it Mooseport. Just as long as they know
where it is and what its used for.

Pete

by **Haqsa** » Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:01:58

Mooseport it is! ;o)

by **Darryl Johnso** » Mon, 01 Sep 2003 05:34:25

> On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:44:05 GMT, Darryl Johnson

>>OTOH, it really isn't worth getting your knickers in a knot over,
>>is it? Either way you say it, no one is going to mistake it for
>>some other track. I get continually confused between RA (Road
>>America) and RA (Road Atlanta), for example, and it doesn't matter
>>if you say "RA" or "Road A". <g>

>>I'm voting for one of those tracks to suffer a name change.

> Yea, and in the UK Liecester is pronounced "lester" and not
> lie-chester. Most people say Mos-port and not Mo-sport regardless
> of it's origin.

You've done a survey have you? Most of the people -- that I know --
say "Mo-sport". Obviously, we hang with different crowds. <VBG>

--
Darryl

by **Eldre** » Tue, 02 Sep 2003 00:54:29

writes:

I pronounce it "ipsituckee"...
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by **Haqsa** » Tue, 02 Sep 2003 02:36:36

LOL, yeah and it's not far from Taylortuckee either...

;o)

by **Darryl Johnso** » Tue, 02 Sep 2003 23:10:55

> On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 20:34:25 GMT, Darryl Johnson

>>You've done a survey have you? Most of the people -- that I know
>>-- say "Mo-sport". Obviously, we hang with different crowds. <VBG>

> The difference being I also lived not far from Mosport and
> everyone that lives in that area pronounces it as Mos-port. When
> in Rome do as the Romans do, and all that. You and your friends
> are obviously out of the loop and clueless.

In some areas, the word "route" is pronounced "rout", and in other
areas it is pronounced "root". I like to say "rout" because the
terminal "e" has a traditional use to indicate a long vowel sound in
the preceeding sylable or word root. However, there are probably more
people -- if we were to count them -- who use the "short" vowel sound
and who say "rout". Which group is "out of the loop and clueless",
pray tell?

I once went to a meeting of the "Flat Earth Society". Interesting
group! If you're interested, everyone in the room professed to
believe that the earth was flat. Using your arguement, since everyone
in the area believed that, that would mean that the rest of the world
was "out of the loop and clueless".

I think we ought to ask the Chinese how *they* pronounce it. There
are, after all, way more of them than there are of us (assuming you
and I and all your friends in the Mosport area are not of Chinese
ancestry). They may not live in the neighbourhood, but they've got
the raw numbers if it ever came down to a vote.

Or we could poll the Italians and ask them how a Roman would
pronounce it. <VBG>

As I said before, it makes *so* little difference in the real world
-- where you and I are are *obviously* not living at the moment.

--
Darryl