It's been a while since I've done a poll.

[stoney321]

So let's do one! ONLY IMPORTANT PEOPLE OF HIGH INTELLIGENCE/SKILLS SHOULD DARE TAKE THIS POLL. You might hurt yourself, otherwise.

I MESSED UP. You can't edit these, boo. LLotP = LHotP. Or maybe I mean the grungy, diesel-punk spin off, Little Louse on the Pra- no, I just messed up. *hangs head*
[Poll #1952234]

Fun fact! I didn't know for years that it was pronounced "slew." I said "sluff." This is what comes of a lonely childhood and lots of quiet reading time: you figure out how to pronounce things on your own.

ION, I have reached a sort of max-density when it comes to pictures of Tyler Hoechlin. I now feel a physical ache in my chest at the sight of him and have to scroll past. THERE IS TOO MUCH ATTRACTIVE/NICE BOY STUFF HAPPENING and it hurts me, guys. It hurts me.

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[kita0610.livejournal.com]

I liked Ma, actually. She was totally all those things in the poll, but yeah, in the end, a product of her time. Also she was pretty bad ass, when she pressed that burning bit of coal on her own leg to stop the infection and then managed to smash the window out so Pa could find her before she passed out from the pain? Damn, woman.

Trufax though: Papa Ingalls was totally my first daddy!kink crush. Hubba.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Ma was tough, and make no mistake about it. I loved her smarts, to be sure.

(LOL.)

Papa Ingalls and Laura had (and still have) the best daddy-daughter relationship of all time, followed closely by Veronica and Papa Mars, and Faith and The Mayor.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

FAITH AND THE MAYOR!!

You just gave me my happy for the day. Thank you. :)

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

truefax, I didn't know how to pronounce it until The Office: UK

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

So...apparently Laura had a big crush on Cap IRL.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, it's pretty evident in the books, too. SHE SETTLED.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

"Slough" = "Sluff". Says this Southerner. I dunno how them Yankees pronounce it, but they're clearly wrong. If they lived here, they'd know better. ;)

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

It's in her letters, too. But it turned out well. He died young and bald.

[tchrgleek.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Nachos for the win! Also, I love LHOTP! Thanks for the laugh on a crappy day.

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

Alas, I am only well versed in the TV show, where Ma was quite lovely and I had a possibly inappropriately mad crush on Pa (I was, like 12). But - Michael Landon! And he could play the fiddle! I read the books but I can't really remember much.

And I totally said "slou" but you didn't have that up there so I picked the closest one - I thought the gh was silent.

This is what comes of a lonely childhood and lots of quiet reading time: you figure out how to pronounce things on your own.

Yup, that explains it.

[gillo]

Actually, I pronounce the word "sl-ow", to rhyme with "plow/plough", because there's a town in Berkshire (pron: Bark - shy-er) with that name and a poem about how bombs should destroy it.

When I read the Little House books I just saw Ma through Laura's eyes, and didn't criticise her. I was young.

Fries are chips and are always the answer.

[gillo]

It's a dreary town just across the river from Windsor, next door to Eton but way less posh.


There's a poem.

[aimeelicious]

I answered the LHotP questions even though I said I didn't want to. So there.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

FRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Ha, BUT. Since they're books about Northerners, we have to pronounce it that way!

BUT YES, SLUFF.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Seriously, freaking nachos, right?! MMMMM.

YOU ARE WELCOME.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

The TV show is SO DIFFERENT from the books, as far as characterization goes. Ma was so quiet and insistent on her girls being seen, not heard, moving softly, giving their things away, never exploring, sitting, sitting, sitting. TV Laura was far more rambunctious and outgoing than Book Laura ever was. (Bumps! I loved her apple boobs rolling down the aisle and hitting Miss Beetle's shoe. Oh, TV Laura...)

WAIT. HOW DO YOU SAY SLOU? Sloo? Or Slow? Or ow-like-cow?

There are so many words I learned how to pronounce YEARS after I learned their meanings for just that reason.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Ha! Someone else has linked to that very poem!! <3 <3 <3

"and didn't criticize her." Yes, you wouldn't have as Laura, would you? *gives you an extra corn cob doll Mr. Edwards brought all the way from Independence.*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

You are WALKING A THIN LINE, LADY. A mighty thin line. ;D

[maevebran.livejournal.com]

I love the Little House books and when I was in MO in October, I went to the Laura and Almanzo's Rocky Ridge Farm. I didn't know that Laura didn't start writing the books until she was 65.

[mpoetess.livejournal.com]

I didn't pronounce it at all, since I didn't read it out loud and had no one to talk about corn husk dollies with, but my mental verbal whateverthefuck image of it was "slow" to rhyme with though.

His big hands were callused, he looked liked a mountain, for a minute I thought I was dead, but he started shakin; his big heart was breakin'. He turned to the woman and said....

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

Yes, slou rhymes with cow, LOL!

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

We have similar goals, as it turns out. *pokes icon*

[entrenous88.livejournal.com]

I did not realize Ma was so freaking awful! I only know TV-MA. Which makes it seem like it's TV rated Mature, and now I definitely want to tune in.

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

I remember that poem! Too funny.