ENOUGH..ALREADY!!

[vacanechaser]

Great, first it was the "freedom fries" nonsense and now we've got "freedom hurricanes."

The South wouldn't be, well, the South without the French, Spanish, Scots, Irish, and English. Not to mention the Native Americans.

get a grip... it is people having fun

[Doc Seminole]

Gat-Son or Gas-Ton or even Gad-son or Gad-sen, any which one will do........ but it is NOT Gas-TONE!


"We should've freed the slaves and then fired on Ft. Sumter."
- General James Longstreet

[Janie34]

get a grip... it is people having fun

Hrmmm, fun. Interesting concept.

[TLHR]

C'mon, Jamie.

When you've got one storm off your coast, and possibly another one in a week, you get your laughs any way you can...

[dhweather]

Are male G-names that hard to think up...we had the same issue with Georges...they said it was Zhorzh, but I NEVER heard one Mississippian say anything other than "George".

Boy, that one sticks with me, name the freakin' thing something easy.
I remember the NHC advisories clearly "pronounced ZORCH"

[quickychick]

I say we rename it G-spot. Once you find it, batten down the hatches.

[dhweather]

I say we rename it G-spot. Once you find it, batten down the hatches. >:)

Oh, you're killing me here!!!!

[amawea]

Ahhh, forget about it! It's a ton of gas, according to my Cajun wife, lol.

[CajunMama]

Watch Disney's Beauty and the Beast....they pronounce it with a french dialect which is how i thought was the only way to pronounce Gaston!

[quickychick]

Watch Disney's Beauty and the Beast....they pronounce it with a french dialect which is how i thought was the only way to pronounce Gaston!

Me too. And wasn't he an overinflated horse's azz in the movie, as well as off the coast of SC? Fitting, that.

[LAwxrgal]

^ Yeh I guess he is an overinflated pain in the ----. The storm, I mean.

[Janie34]

C'mon, Jamie.

When you've got one storm off your coast, and possibly another one in a week, you get your laughs any way you can

I was thinking about that just now. Its been a long day for me and I realise I was a bit short. Sorry about that.

[HurricaneBill]

You are ALL wrong!

The correct pronunciation is Freedom-ston...

No no. It's a gas.

[HurricaneBill]

Great, first it was the "freedom fries" nonsense and now we've got "freedom hurricanes."

The South wouldn't be, well, the South without the French, Spanish, Scots, Irish, and English. Not to mention the Native Americans.

Or chocolate cake!

What? I just felt like saying something random.

[quickychick]

Or chocolate cake!

No no! RED VELVET cake.

[Steve]

>>It's pronounced gas-stone because it's French.

Actually in French it would be pronounced gasTAW or GasTOH with the "n" only coming into play in front of word beginning with a vowel or vowel sound (liason).

[gästôN'

Hey, give me a break. I live in Lou-i-si-an-a (yeah, 5 sylables). Props out to the Mississippi dude who says Zhorghz as it's supposed to be pronounced. Our idiot mayor at the time (Marc Morial) thought he was getting street credit with his "Georg-es" crap he was spewing on the news. I broke curfew . Heh.

Steve

[coriolis]

Henceforth all Hurricanes shall be American names. If the French get a hurricane they can call it Pierre for all I care. We should stick with good american names like Chip, Spike, and Bubba

[quickychick]

Props out to the Mississippi dude who says Zhorghz as it's supposed to be pronounced.

That's Mississippi dude-ette to you. I bet Morial couldn't even pronounce his own last name. I myself have a last name that is nearly impossible to pronounce and therefore take the time to get other names of dubious sound, correct...to address another post, it's not pretentious to attempt the correct (native) pronounciation of foreign names, it's polite.

-qc