The trouble is that the word "Brokies" should be pronounced with an "ok' sound, as in clock.
Hallo
Jack F. Twist,
That's a great handle. Only afficionados would understand! Hell, Annie P. herself might be confused. Get the impression she probably hasn't seen the movie as often us Brokies. On the same tack, in an earlier post I suggested starting a watering hole at the foot of some appropriate mountain in Wyo or Alberta called the
Jack F*ckin Twist Saloon. But using this as a handle is inspired! Yeah, I'm a touch envious, only that's a mean spirited emotion, unworthy of the big time, that BBM insists we follow.
Spelling Brokies: With full Southern respect (I live in Texas), may I disagree? Surely a rhyme with clock, as you suggest, would be rendered as
Brockies, with a most necessary "c." But
Brokies faithfully follows a dominant form in English of the long vowel in midword being retained,
(i) before a
single final consonant -- so smoke becomes Smokies, our famous example (Mountains in these United States),
versus Windies where two consonants shorten the "i;"
(ii) even when other vowels slide in for the final e -- infinite number of examples where other final vowels keep the prior vowel long ...
smoking (versus
smocking), loping (versus lopping), roping, fuming, futile, nubile, nudity, etc.
Brokey works, but usage has surely set
Brokie/brokie in the granite a Wyomin's Granite Mts. (SE of Riverton a ways). We could always ax Fowler.
Best,
jason
