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[attachment=24744 Wrote:Will90MeeG pid='26577' dateline='1500328156'] (07 Jul 2017, 20:44 )shinytights Wrote: Thought today why not another pair of CDR Uppsala tights I have am wearing in a turquoise shade.
I have not seen these in Turquoise!
Although today on Amazon, they have Purple (More pink that purple) and Green too! There goes the housekeeping money!
Bought these off a seller on ebay in a turquoise shade
seller was madame fantasy not only sells on ebay but has a site to online
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As you probably know from my pics I love my turquoise (even if no-one in the UK pronounces it properly, turk-woyz, meh).
Anyway, at the moment I'm wearing this retro blue leo and Platino Cleancut 15s
to pay tribute to this amazing pic posted on Catch Queen's Flickr 😊
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(19 Aug 2017, 07:56 )culmor Wrote: (even if no-one in the UK pronounces it properly, turk-woyz, meh)
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(19 Aug 2017, 12:06 )Like Ra Wrote: (19 Aug 2017, 07:56 )culmor Wrote: (even if no-one in the UK pronounces it properly, turk-woyz, meh)
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I have no idea what you mean... 😇
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(19 Aug 2017, 13:55 )Like Ra Wrote: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/turquoise
[ˈtər-ˌkȯiz, -ˌkwȯiz]
Groan, Merriam-Webster is an American dictionary, cf the first pronounciation given by the Oxford English Dictionary which (so far as I can tell) is essentially
tur-KwArse.
You'd be regarded as more than bit of pretentious knob if you actually pronounced it that way anywhere in the UK outside of central/western London though 😉 Nearly forty years ago I just happened to have be taught French by a woman who had a bug about this word/
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19 Aug 2017, 20:22
(This post was last modified: 19 Aug 2017, 20:34 by Like Ra.)
Here we go:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/turquoise /ˈtəːkwɑːz/ /ˈtəːkwɔɪz/ (the audio file says /ˈtɜː.kwɔɪz/ )
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictiona.../turquoise UK: /ˈtɜː.kwɔɪz/ US: /ˈtɝː.kɔɪz/
BTW, in Dutch it's pronounced "the French way" - [ˈtəːkwɑːz]
Yeah, good old English... "Liquorice", "women", "queue", "ghoti"...
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Meh, I'm going with 'the French Way' too. One, because I'm a Remainer, and two, because I generally quite like the French anyway 😊
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(19 Aug 2017, 20:22 )Like Ra Wrote: Here we go:
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/turquoise /ˈtəːkwɑːz/ /ˈtəːkwɔɪz/ (the audio file says /ˈtɜː.kwɔɪz/ )
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictiona.../turquoise UK: /ˈtɜː.kwɔɪz/ US: /ˈtɝː.kɔɪz/
BTW, in Dutch it's pronounced "the French way" - [ˈtəːkwɑːz]
Yeah, good old English... "Liquorice", "women", "queue", "ghoti"...
Relevant video (which I just happened to rewatch today completely by chance):
Source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Q1cM7_ai4
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New member here.... Wanted to share these of myself in a pair of Cecilia De Rafeal's Sevilla. Took these recently in a private setting.