Annoyingly Boring?

7 responses so far ↓

• 1 Theo Epstein // Aug 4, 2008 at 1:27 am

  The “H-Y” is silent? Live and learn.

• 2 Maureen // Aug 4, 2008 at 1:34 am

  Hydrangea Ranga, eh?

  Can’t quite pull off a Baaston accent with my Canuck tongue…. can I?

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• 3 Ruprecht // Aug 4, 2008 at 8:17 am

  Rupe figgered “highdrain’juh rain’juh” was the title of this blog.

  Rupe thunked Bostonian when he read it.

  Bully! ……………… Rupe

• 4 Rick Astley // Aug 4, 2008 at 11:25 am

  Actually, this title exposes an interesting quirk: certain variations of the always-exquisite Boston accent (like mine) occasionally choose to add a subtle ‘r’ to the end of words that end in an ‘a’. Think ‘Cuba’ or ‘tuba’ or ‘idea’…

  So in this case the Boston accent might in fact steal the ‘r’ from the ranger and give it to the hydrangea:

  “highdrain’jer rain’juh”

  Many thanks to the dozens of helpful (and observant!) midwesterners who have pointed this out to me pretty much every day for the past 14+ years.

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• 5 James // Aug 4, 2008 at 2:46 pm

  Is she the lone Hydranga Ranga in the household?

  We have a huge old (50 years?)Hydranga bush in our backyard. We end up taking flowers to the all the neighbors just to thin it out. That is a solid flower as flowers go.

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• 6 Jenny // Aug 5, 2008 at 11:40 am

  That’s very cute! I had fun saying Hyedrainja Rainja.

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• 7 christine // Aug 6, 2008 at 12:09 am

  This cracks me up … Just last week while visiting Haley in S.F. I took a picture of her with a hydrangea at The Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park.. Posted it on my blog too !

  Wish I had the the “Hyedrainja Rainja” amo for that day. Haley woulda been in stitches!

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