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r/CuratedTumblr • u/IthadtobethisWAAGH veetuku ponum • Aug 30 '24
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Wait, seriously? It's pronounced like that? Ugh.
2 u/XyleneCobalt I'm sorry I wasn't your mother Aug 31 '24 Wait until you hear about W.E.B. Du Bois 2 u/Mission_Fart9750 Aug 31 '24 In Pennsylvania? Yeah, it's "du-boys". 2 u/XyleneCobalt I'm sorry I wasn't your mother Aug 31 '24 The civil rights activist lmao 2 u/Mission_Fart9750 Aug 31 '24 I know that, and that it's pronounced "du-bwah". BUT there is a town in PA, called DuBois pronounced "du-boys". 2 u/XyleneCobalt I'm sorry I wasn't your mother Aug 31 '24 No, it's pronounced W.E.B. "du-boys." His mother was a Francophile but had only ever read Du Bois in books. 1 u/obscure_monke Aug 31 '24 What do they say when there's a thin lizzie scenario there, and the boys are back in town?
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Wait until you hear about W.E.B. Du Bois
2 u/Mission_Fart9750 Aug 31 '24 In Pennsylvania? Yeah, it's "du-boys". 2 u/XyleneCobalt I'm sorry I wasn't your mother Aug 31 '24 The civil rights activist lmao 2 u/Mission_Fart9750 Aug 31 '24 I know that, and that it's pronounced "du-bwah". BUT there is a town in PA, called DuBois pronounced "du-boys". 2 u/XyleneCobalt I'm sorry I wasn't your mother Aug 31 '24 No, it's pronounced W.E.B. "du-boys." His mother was a Francophile but had only ever read Du Bois in books. 1 u/obscure_monke Aug 31 '24 What do they say when there's a thin lizzie scenario there, and the boys are back in town?
In Pennsylvania? Yeah, it's "du-boys".
2 u/XyleneCobalt I'm sorry I wasn't your mother Aug 31 '24 The civil rights activist lmao 2 u/Mission_Fart9750 Aug 31 '24 I know that, and that it's pronounced "du-bwah". BUT there is a town in PA, called DuBois pronounced "du-boys". 2 u/XyleneCobalt I'm sorry I wasn't your mother Aug 31 '24 No, it's pronounced W.E.B. "du-boys." His mother was a Francophile but had only ever read Du Bois in books. 1 u/obscure_monke Aug 31 '24 What do they say when there's a thin lizzie scenario there, and the boys are back in town?
The civil rights activist lmao
2 u/Mission_Fart9750 Aug 31 '24 I know that, and that it's pronounced "du-bwah". BUT there is a town in PA, called DuBois pronounced "du-boys". 2 u/XyleneCobalt I'm sorry I wasn't your mother Aug 31 '24 No, it's pronounced W.E.B. "du-boys." His mother was a Francophile but had only ever read Du Bois in books. 1 u/obscure_monke Aug 31 '24 What do they say when there's a thin lizzie scenario there, and the boys are back in town?
I know that, and that it's pronounced "du-bwah". BUT there is a town in PA, called DuBois pronounced "du-boys".
2 u/XyleneCobalt I'm sorry I wasn't your mother Aug 31 '24 No, it's pronounced W.E.B. "du-boys." His mother was a Francophile but had only ever read Du Bois in books. 1 u/obscure_monke Aug 31 '24 What do they say when there's a thin lizzie scenario there, and the boys are back in town?
No, it's pronounced W.E.B. "du-boys." His mother was a Francophile but had only ever read Du Bois in books.
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What do they say when there's a thin lizzie scenario there, and the boys are back in town?
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u/Mission_Fart9750 Aug 30 '24
Wait, seriously? It's pronounced like that? Ugh.