Most mispronounced words in PNW climbing?

[G-spotter]

Kwikwexwhl'ep is pronounced just like it is spelled

[G-spotter]

oops, Kwikwexwelhp

 

[luwayo]

thanks clever clogs. pronounced like it sounds, huh. too easy. we always seem to be taking that bend faster than i can read. i bet you don't know what it means.

[Phil K]

____ ahhh, "that guy with the dog who claims impossible speed ascents" or Hoot?

[G-spotter]

i bet you don't know what it means.

How much do you want to bet?

[luwayo]

guiness

 

(woops, more spelling challenges)

Edited June 27, 2006 by luwayo

[G-spotter]

Well from what I was told it's the Chehalis place name for Elbow Lake

[JuniperHedgy]

Quien Sabe is the nickname that Tonto gave to the Lone Ranger. Does that mean that that Lone Ranger knows nothing? In Spanish, Tonto means stupid. So, does this mean that the stupid is leading the dumb?

[JuniperHedgy]

How about Terrebonne? Is it "bonn" or "bone"

[G-spotter]

Quien Sabe is the nickname that Tonto gave to the Lone Ranger. Does that mean that that Lone Ranger knows nothing? In Spanish, Tonto means stupid. So, does this mean that the stupid is leading the dumb?

 

Are you thinking of Kemo Sabe?

[MisterMo]

Quien Sabe is the nickname that Tonto gave to the Lone Ranger. Does that mean that that Lone Ranger knows nothing? In Spanish, Tonto means stupid. So, does this mean that the stupid is leading the dumb?

 

Are you thinking of Kemo Sabe?

 

Quien Sabe of course is Spanish for who knows. John Marshall Junior High School lore had it that Kemo Sabe was Indian speak for "Horse Shit".

[G-spotter]

All about Kemo Sabe

[Otto]

How nicely appropriate is the Lone Ranger here, since he is "standing on a detailed rock base"! I want the maquette.

[luwayo]

you know what, after a 2hr lunch today, over 2 glasses of wine, spanish coffee herring, gravlox, shrimp, prawns....in an environment that i am mostly alienated from, the fancyschmancy Terminal City Club, i'll agree to that beer! but if i find out you be feeding me codswallop, you'll be buying me back that beer mate.

[Carp]

Native names certainly are "fun". Lushootseed place names are largely bastardized anyway when we see them now. Nookachamps (Skagit County) was originally more like D'kwat?sabis. Puyallup (pew-al-up) was originally pwee-ahl-loop.

 

Get yourself a Chinook Jargon dictionary and start looking up place names. You'll never visit "Melakwa" anything, because you'll know better.

 

"Pilchuk River" is redundant.

 

I was once told "All the locals say 'McKinley', not 'Denali'". Perhaps the locals need to redefine "local"?

 

Edit: I forgot one. Reiter Rd - it should be pronounced "Writer" or maybe "Rider", but everyone says "Reeter".

 

I figured "Who knows how to pronounce Quien Sabe?" was a clever joke

Edited June 29, 2006 by Carp

[Carp]

Creek = creek. Not "crick". Unless you are over 50 and have killed something fuzzy in the last year.

[lancegranite]

Anybody who has ever fished a crick knows, the differences between a creek and a crick are many.

 

A creek is a small river, gently flowing, with small pools and shady riffles that hold modest populations of excitable, innocent fish chasing bugs and gnats.

 

A crick staggers along like a drunk after closing time.

Full of snags, junk and the occasional wrecked car, a crick might hold fish, but they are shady characters who would rather bum a cigarette butt or relieve you of your wallet, and probably choke to death if they ate a real fly.

[goatboy]

cre-vass or cre-voss

 

Munter or Munt-ner

 

Shukshan or Shuxtan

 

Espresso or Ex-presso