Rick Woods
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Sorry, I don't mean to sound like a jerk. But there's the Phoenix lander, and several of us live in Phoenix, AZ. I've seen it repeatedly spelled "Pheonix" and "Phoneix", and Lord knows what else. I know it's not an easy word when you don't use it all the time. But have pity on us Zonies. Spell it right!
Thanks!
(Hooked on Phoenix!)
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FLNightSky
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It's also pronounced "PUH-ho-NIX", like in the commercial, right?
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LadyAstronomer
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Sounds as if you've been wanting to get that off of your chest for awhile, Rick. 
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Rick Woods
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Sounds as if you've been wanting to get that off of your chest for awhile, Rick.
Yeah - pretty anal, huh?
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- Rick
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Rick Woods
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It's also pronounced "PUH-ho-NIX", like in the commercial, right?
Welll... I haven't seen a TV commercial since 1996, so I suspect I'm missing a good joke here. 
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FLNightSky
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It was a FedEx/Kinko's commercial I believe where the guy walks in and says he wants to mail a package to PUH-ho-NIX and when the clerk says that they don't ship there he asks why since FedEx supposedly ships anywhere at which point the clerk educates the man about FedEx's services. Something along those lines. Before then it never occured to me to even contemplate pronouncing it that way but I can see how one could say it that way (like saying TUKS-on rather than Tuscon).
The ad is a few years old now.
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Mike Casey
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Fenix?
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rboe
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Well I live here and constantly have to retype the word as my fingers get ahead of each other with Phoneix the most common mistake for me (which I just did without trying all that hard  ).
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kx9i
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You tell em, Rick!
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llanitedave
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Feeniks is how the Martians spell it.
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gazerjim
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Phoenix is easy. Try spelling the largest city in New Mexico.
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Jim Fisher
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matt
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hah! that's easy! "El Paso"
(it's Spanish for "only one paso")
while we're at it:
focuser and not focusser
ocular and not occular
Tycho and not Tyco or Ticho
Crayford not Crawford
also: the spelling of their/there, were/where are not interchangeable.
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Matt
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LadyAstronomer
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Sounds as if you've been wanting to get that off of your chest for awhile, Rick.
Yeah - pretty anal, huh?
Matt, I think you've bested Rick in that department. 
Seriously, I had 2 years of French in middle school, and 2 in high school. My language abilities in French are no where near your abilities in English. The drive space in my brain alloted for French has been replaced with pin numbers and passwords.  My self-taught German is still passable, or so I've been told. You and other other non-native English speaking members of CN put us to shame, Matt. 
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Rick Woods
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Wait - doesn't "El Paso" mean "The Pass"? "Paso" means pass, passage, gateway. etc. "One Peso" would be "un peso", since "peso" is a spanish word and its spelling wouldn't change.
Would some fluent Spanish-speaker correct me on this?
Have I recaptured the title?
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Rick Woods
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Phoenix is easy. Try spelling the largest city in New Mexico.
OK, Jim, I'll take that one up:
I haven't checked the populations, and I haven't checked the spelling, but I think its Albuquerque.
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- Rick
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gilligan
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Tuk-Sun,,,,,,Raised there,,,
Phone-Nix,,, Remember, Its a dry heat.....
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matt
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Matt, I think you've bested Rick in that department.
Seriously, I had 2 years of French in middle school, and 2 in high school.
I'm not even talking about how French people spell astro words, especially englsih ones, or how they PRONOUNCE them. Sometimes at the store when somebody calls I am so clueless at what they mean that I ask for the product reference. For example most of them pronounce "Burgess" as in "burger", when they don't simply refer to them AS "Burger" (as in "Burger planetary eyepieces"!).
Then there are English terms which have been translated by people who knew neither astronomy nor English. My favorite is the translation on the Autostar paddle, where the "pole" has been translated as "poteau" - which is a pole in its own right, but as in telephone pole, not celestial pole!
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Joe Lalumia
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Fenix--- more than likely.  OR possiblly try to pronounce correctly Mexia, Texas no it is NOT MEX-E-AH.
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"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax." - Albert Einstein
Edited by Joe Lalumia (05/31/08 05:36 PM)
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gazerjim
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I think its Albuquerque.
Rick, We have a correct answer! You win an all expenses paid trip to El Paso.
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Jim Fisher
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Henry J. Tillman
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Greg K.
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I'm originally from Cincinnati, and hardly anyone spells that right, either, with Cincinatti being the most common.
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