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For me, although I just love his entire way of speaking, it will definitely have to be "out", too! And "thousand"... AAAAAND: "Shout" (as in "Democracy"!!!).
Edit: I will have to add "tonight"; and "core", and "answer"! As in the "Live in London"-recording, when he muses about the "do-dumm-dumm-de-do-dumm-dumm"-background in "Tower Of Song" and says that "tonight", he has "penetrated to the very core of things and stumbled on the answer"; three wonderful words in just two sentences!
And, of course, I just love his way of speaking French!

I love the way he pronounces "wood" in Joan of Arc live version, it turns me on goose bumbs.

Just adding LisBOA to the list here, check it out at 6:10 in IrishAl's excellent video...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMedaI-P0Ng

The way he sings the la las at the end of Sing another song boys,awesome!!

burningviolin wrote:Just adding LisBOA to the list here, check it out at 6:10 in IrishAl's excellent video...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMedaI-P0Ng

Oh, yeah! That's wonderful!

[quote="friscogrl"]I love the way he pronounces "balloons" in the live version of Memories on Field Commander Cohen.
"Bahlooons"!

A related (for the "oo"s) and wonderful pronounciation of a word is when LC sings "loom" in Winter Lady ("she weaves it [her hair] on a loom"). I love that!

schubert wrote:The way he sings the la las at the end of Sing another song boys,awesome!!

One of my favourites! Who'd have thought he could get so much feeling into 'la'!

There are 2 simple words that I just love. They may have already been mentioned...sorry, I didn't go back to read all the previous posts to this thread. I love the way he says "been"........always "bean" and the word "again" which he always says "a-gayn"....uses the long "e" and long "a" sounds respectively. It's just Leonard-speak and one of his endearing qualities.

Lili

I love the way he pronounces words that normally have a long i sound, like "time", which he tends to pronounce with an extended softish "a" sound, saying "taam", and "my" which he says "maa", "life" is "laaf", etc. I just love that, it's very Leonard.

Yearns from Joan of Arc - I just got Songs of Love and Hate a week or so ago, and I can't stop listening to it. And I have to admit when he sings the Wisdom of Old in Live in London, it goes straight to a certain part of my anatomy. As his voice has deepened it has become so visceral. I keep editing this to take out the words that really describe the physical effects. Are we allowed to use those?

I love to hear accents and construct in my head threads connecting one regionalism to another. I grew up bi-lingual: I can speak deep, Appalachian (aka Shakespeare's pronunciation) as well as standard Mid-western American English (with a hint of Southern.) (My parents required one accent; my friends on the street demanded another.) And whenever someone from outside Appalachia pronounces a word in an Appalachian way I find it fascinating. So (forgive the prologue:) the way Leonard pronounces "grown" -- as in gro-wen" in "My body has grown numb."

Who would'a thunk? A Candian with a (limited) Raleigh County accent?

I totally agree with you, Gina. I especially love the way he says it at the beginning of Sing Another Song, Boys - Let's sing another song, boys, this one has grown old and bitter.

Mary

Yeah I love that one too Mollydog.

I completely, blissfully understand, CinCin. That line was what first hooked me on Leonard, as a matter of fact.

CinCin wrote:And I have to admit when he sings the Wisdom of Old in Live in London, it goes straight to a certain part