January 29, 2006
Stanford Washington basketball game
Chris Hernandez has just succeeded making three consecutive free throws with .2 seconds left to send the game into overtime. (Stanford won 76-67).[Immediately prior to that, Stanford trailed 60-61 and had just lost the ball with 2.1 seconds remaining]:
COLE: Let's goit's hopeless.
THANE: No, we're not going, we have a chance.
COLE: A one in a thousand chance, maybe.
THANE: Maybe more like 1 in 30. Or one in 15. I agree, we're likely to lose.
[Stanford fouls before Washington can throw the ball inbounds. Washington makes two free throws. Stanford has the ball trailing by three. They throw the ball in, bobble it a bit, and it ends up in Hernandez's hands, who is fouled trying to shoot a three pointer with .5 seconds left]
Why is Menzies pronounced Mingis?

helpful explanation:
The yogh takes a softer "y" sound in the word capercaillie, the name of a large grouse, which the Oxford English Dictionary spells "capercailye" or "capercailzie".
Ummm...thanks.
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