Arse Cup - Tanya Stevenson V Sally Gunnell

[terry]

This could be a tight one but who knows?

Voting closes at midnight on Thursday.

Sally for me.

[BrianH]

Sally for terry, and Tarrnnya for anybody who is interested...

[Dave G]

Tarrnnnyyaaaa will win this like Shergar won the derby.

[Songsheet]

Bully for Terry, I say..........

no contest

[Shadow Leader]

Yup....Shadow Leader Turf Accountants Ltd go 1/10 Taarrnya, 5/1 Ms Gunnell.....

[PDJ]

Gunnell for me.

[Colin Phillips]

Tight one! I doubt it!

At least Gunnell could clear a hurdle or two, What can Tarrnnyya do?

Colin

[Colin Phillips]

...besides stopping glottals, of course.

Colin

[trudij]

At risk of showing exactly how blonde I am - whats a glottal??? ( am assuming its a polite nickname for everyones favourite betting pundit..... )

[krizon]

Wha i is, trudi, is a persn wha can' use their consnants proply - it's very common now cos it's sposed to show you're not eli'ist, bu aw i is really is a pain in the rear faw those of us wha mannidge to speak awight wivout bein eli'ist anyway.

Here's the techie bit, courtesy of me dictionary: GLOTTAL: of or relating to the glottis; Phonetics: articulated or pronounced at, or with, the glottis.

GLOTTAL STOP: a plosive speech sound produce by tightly closing the glottis and allowing the air pressure to build up before opening the glottis, causing the air to escape with force. Plosive is used in the phonetic sense here, as in a 'plosive consonant'. Plosion is the sound of an abrupt break, or closure. (Such as the word 'abrupt'.)

GLOTTIS: the vocal apparatus of the larynx, consisting of the two true vocal cords and the opening between them.

Tanya would pronounce "vocal cords" as "vocoo caws"; the horse BAK TO BILL becomes BAKTER BIW, and because she doesn't recognize where the stops and starts in words should be emphasized, ONE ALONE, instead of being two, distinct, words, becomes WUNNERLONE. A horse like FIRST CANDLELIGHT becomes FIRS CANDOOLIGH, and so on. We could make up a new game called 'You've Been Tanyaaed!' by putting up horses' names as she mangles them, and trying to guess who they are. :brows:

[Shadow Leader]

Absolute class, Jon!!!!!!!!!&# 33;!!!!

Might have to start a thread on that superb suggestion of yours......

[Colin Phillips]

Thanks for explaining that , K, much better than anything I would have put up.

Colin

[BrianH]

Meanwhile, some disgusting contributors have been using Tanya's glottal stops as some sort of filthy double entendre - a slur on a highly chaste woman, I'm sure

[Melendez]

Both have irritating voices, but for me, Tanya has made massive improvements to a point where she now just falls below acceptable. Sally on the other hand has grown in confidence without the commensurate improvement in ability. Delusions of adequacy is the term generally used.

[Colin Phillips]

Think you are right about Tanya, Mel.
Huge improvement in her diction, must have been having elocution lessons.
Who do you reckon is doing the Rex Harrison bit?

Colin

[terry]

Come on Sally!!!!!!!!! !!

[Songsheet]

Who do you reckon is doing the Rex Harrison bit?

Ask LordH........ B)

[BrianH]

It's level pegging...

[PDJ]

Gunnell for GOLD!!!!!!

[trudij]

ahhhhhh thanks Jon -