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    Is it Champion - chip, or is it Champion - ship?

    All my life I have said champion-chip but I was listening to an English commentator today who clearly said "champion ship".

    and I'm all like "Woah, dude, he says it like its spelled".

    That is all.
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    The BDOTGNZA concurs.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Type championchip into Google - it'll say "Did you mean championship?"
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    I've always said champion ship..... But then again I used to say grand prix as it was spelt until I was about 10....

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    All my life I have said champion-chip but I was listening to an English commentator today who clearly said "champion ship".

    and I'm all like "Woah, dude, he says it like its spelled".

    That is all.
    Slow day aye?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoristheBiter View Post
    Slow day aye?
    You got it. I am procrastinating because I have a couple of steaming turds on my desk which I have to get elbow deep into. So I have been checking the farcebook, the tradme, stuff, KB and anything else I can think of to prevent me working.

    I can't put it off much longer unfortunately.
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    Mmmmmmm Chips !

    very slow day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HenryDorsetCase View Post
    You got it. I am procrastinating because I have a couple of steaming turds on my desk which I have to get elbow deep into. So I have been checking the farcebook, the tradme, stuff, KB and anything else I can think of to prevent me working.

    I can't put it off much longer unfortunately.
    I hear ya.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BoristheBiter View Post
    Slow day aye?
    Perhaps. But at least he could probably spell the interrogative "eh" correctly?

    Please pardon my periodic predilection for pedantry. (And alliteration?)

    On second thoughts; very slow day.
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    Depending on the slowness of the day you can indeed have a champion-chip.

    Take a regular bag of chips, and for every pair of whole chips within squeeze them together until one breaks. Eat the broken one and repeat the test. eventually there will be one whole chip remaining amongst the debris of its challengers, and this chip shall be known as the champion-chip!
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    ChampionSHIP. As in guardianSHIP or stewardSHIP or steamSHIP...ermmm...not sure about that last one...maybe.

    My grand-daughter (4) would say shampionSHIP. But then, she'd also say Shocolate Shippies and Sheese and pineapple shunks, since she struggles to pronounce the "ch" blend correctly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Perhaps. But at least he could probably spell the interrogative "eh" correctly?

    Please pardon my periodic predilection for pedantry. (And alliteration?)

    On second thoughts; very slow day.
    It is indeed as i was trying to get Hitcher to bite on that one.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pritch View Post
    Perhaps. But at least he could probably spell the interrogative "eh" correctly?
    The BDOTGNZA concurs.
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    Mispronunciations will be the death of the Brave Defenders. Too often we hear of people being "ear lifted", not to mention those who don't know or realise that there are different pronunciations for "pair", "peer", "pare" and "pear".

    Then there is the perennial "woman's" versus "women's".

    And then there are Australian rugby commentators. Gahh! Thud.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    Mispronunciations will be the death of the Brave Defenders. Too often we hear of people being "ear lifted", not to mention those who don't know or realise that there are different pronunciations for "pair", "peer", "pare" and "pear".

    Then there is the perennial "woman's" versus "women's".

    And then there are Australian rugby commentators. Gahh! Thud.
    We feminists pronounce it "wimminz", and eschew the patriarchy.
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