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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Among all the rottweilers and pitbulls, cars spas and Indian restaurants which appear to have some connection to Asia blue, sometimes something eggcornish must surely be afoot.
In the 1970s I ran a sports racer that was built in 1957—I asked the builder of the car what was the original colour and he said “Asia Blue-from Ford”. I spent days trying to find the colour at all the local paint suppliers until somebody said “You mean Azure Blue” and sure enough that was it.
he’d seen a Holden sedan of Bright Asia Blue colour which was in the vicinity and so enquiries were made around the vicinity and it was discovered that… had a vehicle which was a Holden, Bright Asia Blue coloured sedan which he’d sold a week or so after the abduction.
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Do they pronounce Asia as [‘æʒə] instead of [‘eʲʒə], then? (æ is the ‘short a’ vowel in “mash”, eʲ the ‘long a’ vowel of “pace” (in my dialect, anyway!))
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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I first came across this in the late 1970s when I made the mistake of calling into a public house in Gateshead called The Azure Blue. At the time it was a much like a Star Wars bar, but without the charm, stimulation or tasteful decor. I didn’t stay long, having left my nearby home without a lightsabre, but it was clear that my pronunciation of azure excited a definite belligerence.
They insisted that Asia and azure were pronounced identically, to rhyme – more or less – with, perhaps, aphasia. It really wasn’t clear, and I didn’t press the point, that they realised the two words meant different things. I’ve revisited it because I’m at a loss to explain why Asia blue should be such a common descriptive term unless azure blue is commonly mispronounced and thereby creating eggcornish misinterpretations.
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OK, so it’s azure that’s pronounced [‘eʲʒə]. Makes sense. In any case, bizarre!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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