Yuletide

[thefourthvine]

Does anyone happen to know if there's a spreadsheet or whatever of all the Yuletide fandoms floating around yet? I usually use one that someone else makes to winnow down my offers (I own my laziness), but I can't remember who made them the last few years, and I don't want to post on the Yuletide comm to ask. (Because it seems like anything could happen. It's been a wild and crazy year over there, and that's before signups. By December, I predict there will be cannibalism and word riots on the Yuletide comm. You heard it here first!)

*hopeful eyes*

Comments

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

Er...the hopeful eyes are anticipating the word riots, yes, and not the cannibalism? I hope?

Actually, word riots sound like fun. How would one start a word riot?

[reginagiraffe]

Ask "Do you pronounce 'skein' SKEEN or SKANE?" on Ravelry.

Yeesh!

[macey-muse.livejournal.com]

Actually, that word looks remarkably germanic in origin, in which case the emphasis should be placed on the second vowel, namely, 'i', making SKINE the legitimate -


*shot*

[reginagiraffe]

According to all the dictionaries, "skane" is the only correct pronunciation.

Like rein, lo mein, neigh.

And believe me, that argument was brought out, too! *g*

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

"I before E, except after C and whe pronounced "Ay" like in neighbour or weigh."

Or skein, but that doesn't rhyme. Oh English, why so wacky?

[reginagiraffe]

Vocabulary venereal disease.

That's what happens when you get into bed with any other language you can get your hands on.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

And never forget, "weird" is just weird.

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

I don't go on Ravelry. I've heard scary things about those people and their knitting needles. *shudders*

I've heard "scan", actually. How would you pronounce it? I wouldn't. I'd say "a thing of yarn". But I've always been curious.

[reginagiraffe]

According to all the dictionaries, "skane" is the only correct pronunciation.

Like rein, lo mein, neigh.