[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Realators--meet on in FeBOOary in the Liberry

[kemper mentor]

>> Amanda: 

 >> 
HAIR-assment, not ha-RASS-ment. Brits use this one, and increasing numbers

of Americans since it was so often mispronounced during all the Clarence

Thomas hoo-hah.

> Magpie:

> ::shrug:: I've used them both, but am fine with the newer version 

 (har-RASS-ment) . That one comes more naturally to me, actually, and I 

 don't consider it a mispronounciation. According to the dictionary 

 Har-RASS-ment is a newer version now more common in America. However, 

 if I'm using the older form, I definitely don't say HAIR-assment. 

 It's HAR-ass-ment. The "har" being the same "har" as in "Harry," 

 which does not rhyme with "hairy" for me.

 

Kemper now:
Perhaps the word was mispronounced intentionally to avoid other mispronunciation by the press.
"Harassment, more then Clarence Thomas bargained for."

Could be read and misinterpreted aloud as:
"Her ass meant more then Clarence Thomas bargained for."

Whereas the intentional misreading aloud:
"HAIR-assment, more ..."
Leaves out sexual innuendo.  

Kemper





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