Word It is open to the public.
Public is the Word It for November.
With that said, please read the specifications for submittal, and go create based on public.
Word-its will be updated on a weekly basis.
Word It is open to the public.
Public is the Word It for November.
With that said, please read the specifications for submittal, and go create based on public.
Word-its will be updated on a weekly basis.
they have a lot to do with each other, but aren't the same.
partly because bourgeois is an adjective and public can also be a noun.
www.webster.com
bourgeois
1: of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class
2: a concern for material interests and respectability and a tendency toward mediocrity
3: dominated by commercial and industrial interests
public, adjective
1: exposed to general view, well-known, prominent perceptible
2: relating to people of: an area, nation, state, government
3: relating to people in general (universal)
4 : of or relating to business or community interests as opposed to private affairs : SOCIAL
5 : devoted to the general or national welfare : HUMANITARIAN
6: accessible to or shared by all members of the community
public, noun
1 : a place accessible or visible to the public: done "in public"
2 : the people as a whole : POPULACE
3 : a group of people having common interests or characteristics; specifically: the group at which a particular activity or enterprise aims
On Oct.27.2004 at 03:03 PMI thought bourgeois was the word it for October...maybe public is the November word it?
Correct.
partly because bourgeois is an adjective and public can also be a noun.
Public can mean many many things.
On Oct.27.2004 at 03:12 PMmany.
don't think i'm setting parameters here or anything.
just making a point and beginning my brainstorming...
On Oct.27.2004 at 03:42 PMHow do you pronounce bourgeois? I know it's a silly question and dictionaries will tell me, but I totally don't get it still.
Bore gee ose?
Bore goo ee?
I'm bad at French. Or is it German?
On Oct.28.2004 at 12:55 PM>How do you pronounce bourgeois?
Steve, not a silly question at all. The reason you're not getting the whole story is that French uses totally different mouth and tongue shapes and movements, and has a whole range of nasal sounds. Those little Greek symbols in the dictionary are approximations.
That said, I'll foolishly take a stab at writing it down.
Burz-wha — when you say the first syllable, pucker your lips like you're saying an "O" and make the "R" more of a hint than a hard English "R". The "R" is more of a small footbridge between the vowel and the "Z" sound — don't even try to distinguish it. Concentrate more on the vowel sound sliding into the "Z".
The second syllable gets the stress. Since French is a language obsessed with the flow between sounds; it isn't a hard stress, but more the logical lift and take off of the word after the lowness of the first syllable.
On Oct.28.2004 at 01:21 PMThe �bou’ in bourgeois is like boo! Happy Halloween : )
The �r’ in bourgeois is, as mentioned above, hardly enunciated -unless a grammar teacher in France would be saying the word out loud in two syllabic parts, then it would be rolled and guttural.
The �g’ in bourgeois is soft, like in Jacques Cousteau’s name (or Jacques Brell or Zsa Zsa Gabor) and in most pronunciation keys is spelled out as �zh’.
And the �eois’ in bourgeois is like the �wa’ of words like: wad, waffle, walk, etc.
On Oct.28.2004 at 05:50 PM"Bourgeoisie is the name of the middle class itself; a bourgeois or bourgeoise is a member of the bourgeoisie. Pronounce the adjective and the masculine noun BOOR-ZHWAH, the feminine form of the noun BOOR-ZHWAHZ, and the collective noun BOOR-zhwah-ZEE. H. L. Mencken coined the slang blend booboisie (boob plus bourgeoisie), and the dated American slang bushwa (or bushwah), meaning “nonsense,” may be a result of an Americanized mispronunciation of the adjective, BOOZH-WAH."
http://www.bartelby.net/68/50/950.html
On Jul.28.2006 at 05:39 AM
I thought bourgeois was the word it for October...maybe public is the November word it? :)
BTW, aren't these really similar?
On Oct.27.2004 at 01:20 PM