Word: urr
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...Actually, sing it backwards,” Schmitt shouts. Maats follows his song with a monologue as alienated spelling bee contestant Graham Urr...
...producer Nicholas H. Ma ’05 says the Pudding is all about “plays on words and wit,” which Schmitnick has taken to heart with character names like Lynn Guist, Graham Urr and the Diction Fairy...
Mitnick, who is the more soulful and reserved of the pair, likens Graham Urr to himself. As usual, it is hard to tell whether or not he’s joking. Earlier, the two had a running gag about lifting their second act directly from The Producers...
...guide runs from James Abourezk, (Ab-urr-esk), Democratic Senator from South Dakota, to John Zwach (rhymes with clock), Republican Rep resentative from Minnesota. In between are Schneebeli (Shnay-ble), Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, and Kluczynski (Kloo-chin-skee), Dem ocratic Representative from Illinois. Especially rich-sounding are the Gs in the House. Among them: Gaydos (Gay-duss), Pennsylvania Democrat; Giaimo (Gy-moe), Connecticut Democrat; Gubser (Goob-ser), Republican from California; and Gude (Goo-dee), Republican from Maryland. The only of fice that has remained impervious to the phonetic assault is, of course, the presidency itself. But Spiro Agnew...
...accent, apparent to a trained ear. A Virginian pronounces ou sounds with a quick upward-looping inflection, so that "out" sounds like "a-oot." A North Carolinian may leave out the r's in "carry," but he puts a heavy r in certain other words. He says "Yes urr no" instead of "Yes uh no," as most Southerners would...
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