Halloween

[nq:1]It seems that half the people this year are saying "Holloween" rather than "Halloween." Is it just because they absent-mindedly are thinking that the root is "hollow" rather than "hallow"? Fascinating.[/nq]
It's viral people hear it, so they say it. I have no idea where it started. Perhaps the standard pronunciation of "hall" has something to do with it (even though the vowel sounds are

[nq:2]It seems that half the people this year are saying ... thinking that the root is "hollow" rather than "hallow"? Fascinating.[/nq]
[nq:1]It's viral people hear it, so they say it. I have no idea where it started. Perhaps the standard pronunciation of "hall" has something to do with it (even though the vowel sounds aren't identical).[/nq]
I associate people who say "holloween" with th

[nq:1]It seems that half the people this year are saying "Holloween" rather than "Halloween." Is it just because they absent-mindedly are thinking that the root is "hollow" rather than "hallow"? Fascinating.[/nq]
I pronounce it Holloween. Everyone I know pronounces it Holloween. Maybe it's a regional difference.

Dena Jo
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[nq:1]I associate people who say "holloween" with those who say "hollowed ground", when reciting the Gettysburg Address, but I am ... "hallowed be thy name", and would think most people who recite the Lord's Prayer don't say "hollowed be thy name".[/nq]
That doesn't necessarily mean that they intimately associate the spelling and the sounding; at the age the prayer is usually learned, it is l

Bob Lieblich
Who still pronounces the first syllable "Hal"
I'm afraid I can't do that right now Bob

John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:1]I'm afraid I can't do that right now Bob[/nq]
Hehe.
On my computer, I have replaced the traditional opening Windows chime with a soundbyte from 2001.
Every morning, I hear Hal saying, "I'm completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly."
And every morning, I snicker and say, "Yeah, right."

Dena Jo, who hates her computer
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[nq:2]I'm afraid I can't do that right now Bob[/nq]
[nq:1]Hehe. On my computer, I have replaced the traditional opening Windows chime with a soundbyte from 2001. Every morning, I hear Hal saying, "I'm completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly." And every morning, I snicker and say, "Yeah, right."[/nq]
That's weird (weird coincidental, not weird strange). Maybe

[nq:1]That's weird (weird coincidental, not weird strange). Maybe not. I had an Atari ST in the early 90s and set precisely that soundbite to signify the end of the boot process.[/nq]
Great minds. They do, don't they?
[nq:1]I also had a soundbite of Ben Elton shouting 'You Stupid !!!' to signify receipt of an error message.[/nq]
Can you send me that .wav file?

Dena Jo
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I used a shut-down screen a few years back that read "Are you trying to turn me off, Dave? Dave?" It was amusing for a while.

(I also replaced the Windows start-up noise with the Loony Tunes opening theme, but that started to drive me nuts after a month or so..)

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Early 90s. Atari ST.

John Dean
Oxford
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