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#33406 01/16/01 04:19 PM
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How DO you pronounce Ambergris? the dictionary says:
am�ber�gris [ámbr gris , ámbr grees ]
Somewhere on an Ambergris web site, I read that it was am-BUR-gris with the emphasis on BUR. I have heard people not say the final "s". I know, I know after I have a couple of those Belikens I keep reading about, I won't care how it is said. But right now ,sitting in the cold and snow, I want to tell people where I am going next week. Thanks.

#33407 01/16/01 07:00 PM
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I think we went through this a while back...just tell them you're going to "A Hellva of a Lot of Fun Caye". That would be a reasonably accurate pronunciation of Ambergirs Caye. (It is appropiate to use either "official" pronouncements. No one will care)

#33408 01/16/01 07:52 PM
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to us it is pronounced just liked it's spelled...Ambergris Caye [key] it flows lol i believe it means "whale blubber"!

#33409 01/16/01 08:24 PM
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Actually it's the part of whale excrement that was used in perfume.

#33410 01/16/01 08:31 PM
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I've had people swear to two pronunciations:
Am-BUR-gris or Am-BUR-grease Key

#33411 01/16/01 10:46 PM
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Used to be "Am-burr-griss Caye", but now its "Temptation Island"!

#33412 01/16/01 10:52 PM
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no way..not "Temptation Island" it's soooo cheesy! love the fact that it's AC, it will always and in all ways be AC!

#33413 01/17/01 12:46 AM
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So where in the snow, I am also freezin my a** off and am going down shortly?

#33414 01/17/01 04:47 AM
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As I sometimes say in one of my 'True Stories' songs,"It's like Hambergers without the "H". Maybe that's why they chose us for Temp Island. Raw meat! ...or cooked depending on how much sun you got.

[This message has been edited by Barefoot Skinny (edited 01-17-2001).]


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Your's not in the Caye of "A"
#33415 01/17/01 10:34 AM
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Thanks for the info - I kind of like the hambugers answer. Jen O,I am in Iowa.Where are you?


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