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Okay, good to know that's how i was saying it! But sometimes my mouth won't let it come out that way and it ends up sounding like spanish. :laugh: Even though English is my first language :laugh:
 
Must be easier in an Aussie accent. :)

I just say it " Plee-bans" ... not like 'Ray Bans' but .... um...how do you write an accent :huh: ?

Plee-b'ns

:up: ~Ultra
 
I pronounce it Pleb-uh (with the E like the E in Edge as above)

:shrug: probably becuase when I was a kid, my mum used to call people she didn't like 'plebs'. And I always thought the word Pleba was really funny because of that

from dictionary.co.uk:
PLEB:
noun {C} INFORMAL DISAPPROVING
a person of a low social class

PLEBBY:
adjective INFORMAL DISAPPROVING
- I can't bear her plebby friends.

from dictionary.com:
PLEB:
n.
A commoner; a plebeian.
[Short for plebeian, or perhaps back-formation from plebs.]

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

PLEB:
n : one of the common people [syn: plebeian]

:lmao::shifty:

But I know that when I met Meggie, she pronounced it Plee-ba. And she said that her English boyfriend pronounced it Pleb-uh like me. So maybe the Pleb-uh pronounciation is more of a British version, and the Plee-ba one is more American :hmm:
 
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:lmao: Bammo2!!!

The "plebs" thing- that's exactly why I go for pleeba, because I don't want it to sound like we're a bunch of PLEBS (lucky the bass player's the older bro, hey)

:wink: ~Ultra
 
UltraVelvet said:
Must be easier in an Aussie accent. :)

I just say it " Plee-bans" ... not like 'Ray Bans' but .... um...how do you write an accent :huh: ?

Plee-b'ns

:up: ~Ultra

Things always sound so much better with an Australian accent.
 
mmm, plee-buns

BLEAP
I think that would more describe the content, eh?





explanation for those who haven't got it yet: you know on tv when they bleep something 'cause its dirty? It's like that, 'cause pleba is dirty. See?
 
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