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| View Poll Results: How do you pronounce Beaufighter? | |||
| Bo-fi-ter | | 17 | 73.91% |
| Byoo-fi-ter | | 3 | 13.04% |
| Other | | 3 | 13.04% |
| Voters: 23. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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| | #1 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
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| How do you pronounce Beaufighter? Well, how do you? |
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| Senior Member | I am gonna say Byoo-fi-ter.......are you trying to figure this out or are you testing us? |
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| | #3 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
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| kind of both. I don't know for sure the right way. I have been pronouncing it Bo-fighter all my life, but I rarely have heard it pronounced by anyone-- I've only ever read it or heard it said by people who may not have been a good authority on the subject! |
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| Senior Member | I am Pretty sure its Byoo-fi-ter |
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
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| Also I thought it would be a funny poll! |
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| Senior Member | haha I look at it I was like...hmmmmm...how to pronounce Beaufighter I never really thought of that becoming a thread |
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| Minister of Whoopass ![]() Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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| It IS pronounced Bo fighter... As in boa...
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer ![]() Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| Bow (as in ribbon, necktie) fie -ter Beau Bridges Beau Geste
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
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| | #10 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
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| And, uh, what about those two people who voted other? |
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer ![]() Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| descendants of Helen Keller?
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| | #12 |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: South Carolina
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| | #13 |
| aka Dickcheese ![]() Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| They would have, but their profile indicates they have no lips.
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer ![]() Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| Hey I was one of those!
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| aka Dickcheese ![]() Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| no nwhat is nyour pnoint, Njaco?
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