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Soliciting your vote on this burning issue! 
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63Kur-uh4.76%3Kur-agk15.87%10Kur-AK7.94%5Kurrah60.32%38Sir-rah0.00%0Ba-na-na11.11%7"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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Kurrah.
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The only possible correct answer in this spurious poll can be ba-na-na!
So if you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse, or I'll lay your soul to waste
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This gets my vote for best poll in quite some time.
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Kurrah.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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Cur (as in "curdle") -ag (As in "bog", or "augh, I just spent precious minutes of my life posting in this thread!")Comment
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Kur-ahLong-time poster on Apolyton and WePlayCiv
Consul of Apolyton from the 1st Civ3 Inter-Site Democracy Game (ISDG)
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One of the little rules of English orthography is that syllable-final -gh is silent, which suggests that we kurrah-sayers are right.
But where the heck does the word come from? I had never heard it before C3C.Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- ElokComment
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Thanks.Originally posted by MrWhereItsAt
This gets my vote for best poll in quite some time.
* MrWhereItsAt goes to see if he can give the thread a ranking...
Partial credit to a joke by Aqualung71.
"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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Thanks. Partial credit graciously acceptedOriginally posted by Vince278
Thanks.
Partial credit to a joke by Aqualung71.
(yes, I'm still laughing)
So if you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse, or I'll lay your soul to waste
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But Klor, that would mean pronouncing it ker-og' (short for "Kermit the Frog"?)Originally posted by Kloreep
Cur (as in "curdle") -ag (As in "bog", or "augh, I just spent precious minutes of my life posting in this thread!")
Or even.....ker-or' (you mean, "augh" as in Evelyn Waugh" or Steve Waugh?)
Hmmm
So if you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse, or I'll lay your soul to waste
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I said as in "bog"
The first.
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Banana...
I normally pronounce it "kur-ag". Sometimes it's "koor-ag". Depends on my mood.
It's nice to know how it's really supposed to be pronounced though.
Is there a similar thread on the pronounciation of Hwach'a?"Every time I have to make a tough decision, I ask myself, 'What would Tom Cruise do?' Then I jump up and down on the couch." - Neil StraussComment
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Now, now...let's not get too ambitious. That would test the collective intelligence of us civers, don't you think?Originally posted by Xorbon
Is there a similar thread on the pronounciation of Hwach'a?
On the other hand......hmmm. Watch this space!So if you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse, or I'll lay your soul to waste
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