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MuseRider

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1. Humus a little tune

Reply to Locut0s (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2013, 05:48 PM

Dec 2013

is how it is pronounced around here but this is Kansas and we don't care how things are supposed to be pronounced, we pronounce everything Merican. Fuck yeah!

Seriously, I do not know any other way. This is the only way I have ever heard it pronounced.

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How do you pronounce Humus? [View all] Locut0s Dec 2013 OP

Humus a little tune MuseRider Dec 2013 #1

That's how it's pronounced in the Arabic part of town. Dearborn, MI bif Dec 2013 #6

Cool, thank you. MuseRider Dec 2013 #9

Hugh-mus Ptah Dec 2013 #2

Well... Wait Wut Dec 2013 #3

Indeed. bluesbassman Dec 2013 #8

Stuff is nasty. Wait Wut Dec 2013 #10

Yeah, he's the greatest! bluesbassman Dec 2013 #12

It was a beautiful thing. Wait Wut Dec 2013 #29

Yes! I thought I was alone in my dislike for the stuff tabbycat31 Dec 2013 #32

It's hummus KamaAina Dec 2013 #4

Huh-muss... Xyzse Dec 2013 #5

It's probably the cumin you object to. bif Dec 2013 #7

Yup. A HERETIC I AM Dec 2013 #11

Cumin? Yuck! Most of the Arab world doesn't do that... JCMach1 Dec 2013 #15

'humm us' a tune. MerryBlooms Dec 2013 #13

huh moose (like the the animal)... at least in the Gulf Arab world JCMach1 Dec 2013 #14

Hum us antiquie Dec 2013 #20

There are many Arab dialects... Gulf Arabs are different from Lebanese and different from Egyptians JCMach1 Dec 2013 #27

Uncles and cousins spoke French to each other antiquie Dec 2013 #28

Many Lebanese mix French, Arabic and English freely... JCMach1 Dec 2013 #34

I love hummus, my wife has been making it for 20 years or so .... kwassa Dec 2013 #16

Indeed I love the stuff too. We also make it.. Locut0s Dec 2013 #17

I've never made it OriginalGeek Dec 2013 #23

Like it almost rhymes with Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch struggle4progress Dec 2013 #18

I pity the guys who have to take your Shawarma order ;) nt. Locut0s Dec 2013 #19

Ground up chick peas Major Nikon Dec 2013 #21

HyOO-miss Populist_Prole Dec 2013 #22

depends which part of the levant you are in, i have heard it different ways loli phabay Dec 2013 #24

Humm-us for the chick-pea paste. --- Hume-us for the decaying plant matter Rhythm Dec 2013 #25

Hum us. nt ZombieHorde Dec 2013 #26

I thought you were talking about rich, organic soil. Blue_In_AK Dec 2013 #30

hum-us a tune, and as noted above "hummus" magical thyme Dec 2013 #31

Crap, mostly. cliffordu Dec 2013 #33