1. Did you intend to type it "duck", not "duct"?
   
   I found my blog was actually useful the other day, as someone visited while searching for "how to get a cat out of an air duct" ;-)
     posted by Dean at 07:36:43 AM on March 23, 2004  
2. From that site:
   
   """
   mawv --> mauve : This word has not moved far enough away from French to assume an English pronunciation, [mawv], and should still be pronounced [mowv].
   """
   
   Obviously, in French this is pronounced without a "w", something like [mo:v]. So they pronounce this wrong themselves, like almost al English speakers do... ;-)
   
     posted by JanC at 06:03:30 PM on March 23, 2004  
3. Abbot: How do you pronounce "Hawai'i"? Ha-why-ee or Ha-vie-ee?
   
   Costello: Ha-vie-ee.
   
   Abbot: Thank you.
   
   Costello: You're Velcome.
   
     posted by Doug L. at 07:51:57 AM on March 30, 2004