Re: [GZG] GZG official news - we've moved premises!

I asked an indian friend of mine and he confirms that the original
pronounciation in India was "pyjamas".

However here in the south, at least in Atlanta, when you ask for a
Coke you get a Coke. If you ask for a Pepsi, you get shot. Or, if
you're lucky, a weird look and a Coke. Dr. Pepper made it down here,
but only recently; his less educated counterpart Mr. Pibb reigned
instead.

Rob

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Allan Goodall <agoodall@hyperbear.com>
wrote:

> Down here, in the South, it's "pajamas". It was the subject of much
heated
> debate between Logan and me.
>
> But growing up -- born in Scotland, my parents are Scottish -- it was
always
> "pyjamas". In fact, my dad would jokingly call them "PIE-jams".
>
> From what I've found online, "pyjamas" is the British spelling. What's
odd,
> I always pronounced it differently, too.
>
> According to Wikipedia, "pajamas" is common in the U.S. and Canada. I
have
> Canadian spelling turned on in Firefox, and it's flagging "pajamas" as
the
> atrocity that it is. (*chuckle and duck*). How do the other Canadians
spell
> it? I don't think I was ever asked in school, or if I did I didn't get
it
> wrong.
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