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cock hero flux posted:quinoa is one of those words where even though I have learned the correct pronunciation I still somehow feel dumber saying it the right way than I do just going "KWINOAH" Truth.
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Proteus Jones posted:It took my brain far too long to figure out what loving word this was. Look at this guy who never played the Yukon trail and got hoodwinked into buying a bunch of gold sniffing gophers
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May 15, 2019 11:21
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I learned a lot of words from books so it was pretty funny in a second year english literature uni tutorial when I said "hyper-bowl" without a trace of shame
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May 15, 2019 13:16
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Yes, and you call it "Birming Ham" despite the fact that it is obviously "Birming'm"
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May 15, 2019 13:19
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:I learned a lot of words from books so it was pretty funny in a second year english literature uni tutorial when I said "hyper-bowl" without a trace of shame Don't sweat it, I had an English lit and linguistics professor at uni who pronounced it the same. Also have class pronouncing gaol wrong in their presentations was funny. I'll never forget my friends face when I told her afterwards that it's just an alternate spelling jail.
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May 15, 2019 13:30
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Garrand posted:I didn't learn this fact until I was like 29 I'm guessing this is because in english it's difficult to say the "o" sound without ending it with a "u" sound. In spanish, the o in quinoa is short but it's definitely there.
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Taeke posted:Don't sweat it, I had an English lit and linguistics professor at uni who pronounced it the same. Neverwinter Nights taught me this one.
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The word for me was 'Gibraltar'. I had seen it in print when I was maybe 10 and mentally came up with "GIB ruhl tar" with a hard G. I had even heard the word aloud, but never connected that pronounced word "ji BRAWL ter" with the printed version until I was into my 20s.
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May 15, 2019 14:21
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I picked up a dumb habit of mispronouncing words deliberately because  but sometimes they get stuck in my head so now there's now a 50% chance I might accidentally pronounce something like 'vegetables' as "vuh-JETTA-bulls" in any given conversation. If it keeps up I'll have to tell people I had a stroke or something to explain it.I also have a really annoying  habit of interjecting "Actually it's pronounced [___]" into conversations just to throw my friends off balance and every now and then I'll convince someone that they've been pronouncing a really common word incorrectly their entire life. I have no idea why anyone who knows me IRL would ever trust me on anything like that.It's 100% this guy's fault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOnPqCjKuac
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May 15, 2019 15:04
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I picked up a dumb habit of mispronouncing words deliberately because https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjOZmjntpqQ
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May 15, 2019 15:10
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I lived near Massachusetts and it took me way to long to realize that the city of Worcester is pronounced "WISSTAH!", And that I would never find WISSTAH on a map. Also I just found out the city of Worcester in the UK is pronounced Wooster.
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May 15, 2019 21:12
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Beachcomber posted:Apparently Quinoa is not pronounced Kin-oh-a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1visYpIREUM
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May 15, 2019 21:20
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I picked up a dumb habit of mispronouncing words deliberately because I do this, but I've never seen that before. I once convinced my wife that Yosemite was pronounced Yo-sem-ite.
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May 15, 2019 21:24
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Don Gato posted:I lived near Massachusetts and it took me way to long to realize that the city of Worcester is pronounced "WISSTAH!", And that I would never find WISSTAH on a map. 
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Don Gato posted:I lived near Massachusetts and it took me way to long to realize that the city of Worcester is pronounced "WISSTAH!", And that I would never find WISSTAH on a map. Think of it this way Worce-ster, not this way Wor-ces-ter
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May 15, 2019 22:15
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I also have a really annoying I think it's incredibly irritating when someone does that, I'm no fun at parties though so  .
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I picked up a dumb habit of mispronouncing words deliberately because En-cyclo-PAY-dia 
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Aleph Null posted:Think of it this way Worce-ster, not this way Wor-ces-ter Yeah but it IS Wor-cester (etymologically) which makes it hard.
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May 15, 2019 22:22
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Now what about the sauce?
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BAR-buh-kyoo.
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Don Gato posted:I lived near Massachusetts and it took me way to long to realize that the city of Worcester is pronounced "WISSTAH!", And that I would never find WISSTAH on a map. And if you go to the College of Wooster people assume you're in Massachusetts
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May 15, 2019 23:38
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Hyperlynx posted:Yes, and you call it "Birming Ham" despite the fact that it is obviously "Birming'm" May I introduce you to Bur-min-ham, Alabama? I called it Wooster sauce until I was 16. Seemed like something the man would use.
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Henchman of Santa posted:And if you go to the College of Wooster people assume you're in Massachusetts And people who live outside of the county don’t know how to pronounce Wooster either. Also, I’d read somewhere that Pittsburgh was meant to be pronounced Pittsbur-ruh, kinda like Edinburgh. root beer has a new favorite as of 00:36 on May 16, 2019 |
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I pronounce it like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b8oEcFmQD0&t=134s
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If you're from The South, Mississippi is pronounced Missippi. In Tennessee we have Mare-ville (sp. Maryville) and in Arkansas we have Bly-ville (sp. Blytheville).
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May 16, 2019 06:20
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OK, I guess I have to ask: does everyone pronounce “prescription” as “perscription” or is it just everyone I’ve ever heard say it in real life ever?
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May 16, 2019 07:05
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I say prescription but I'm super picky about things like that. Nucular and Febuary absolutely kill me and I hear people say them wrong nine times out of ten.
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May 16, 2019 07:13
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I pronounce it 'pruh' in prescription, but 'per' in 'prerogative'. I actually had 30 seconds of sheer existential torment when I googled 'perogative'; just refreshing the page over and over trying to make the world make sense it doesn't make sense As an aside, why does my brain want to throw in the extra r in february, and the extra h in aughust? Did they purposely teach me the months wrong, as a joke?
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May 16, 2019 08:19
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TheMaskedUgly posted:extra r in february This is correct though?
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TheMaskedUgly posted:As an aside, why does my brain want to throw in the extra r in february, and the extra h in aughust? Did they purposely teach me the months wrong, as a joke? If you really want to gently caress with people I can recommend pronouncing the l in almond, as long as you're happy living out a version of a Family Guy sketch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZmqJQ-nc_s
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Wait, do other people not pronounce the L in almond? E: I’m sitting here like an idiot chanting “almond” to myself and if anything I notice that I tend to drop the d.
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tallest crocodile posted:Wait, do other people not pronounce the L in almond? I just googled it and apparently both pronunciations are used, but here in Australia it's pretty much exclusively "Ahmond"
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May 16, 2019 09:32
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Memento posted:This is correct though? i hate this loving language
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TheMaskedUgly posted:i hate this loving language 
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The more I say these words out loud, the more I feel like I'm misremembering how I talk. I won't know how I say any of it for months.
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Wouldn't it be nice if spelling was consistent and phonemic so if you knew how to spell a word, you'd always know how to pronounce it, and if you knew how to pronounce a word, you'd always know how to spell it? Well gently caress you lol we already have that :smugprööh: e: Next pay-day, barring having been banned by then, I might invest in a :smugprööh:.
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madeintaipei posted:I called it Wooster sauce until I was 16. Seemed like something the man would use. ... but that's correct? What do you call it now?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:If you really want to gently caress with people I can recommend pronouncing the l in almond, as long as you're happy living out a version of a Family Guy sketch. I'm from the Philadelphia area, I just say All-mond. However there's a couple neighborhoods in Philly where they say AL-mond. (like the name Al). Linguistically we're in a weird rear end area. We're one of those areas where the words Merry, Marry, and Mary are completely distinct. (I will admit that Mary and Merry are pretty close when I say them). You can also tell when someone grew up in Delaware county, because their accent, despite being 20 minutes away from the rest of the area, is completely different. Also it's pronounced Wooder, not water.
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AFewBricksShy posted:I'm from the Philadelphia area, I just say All-mond. You guys talk funny. Must be something in the wooder.
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burial posted:OK, I guess I have to ask: does everyone pronounce “prescription” as “perscription” or is it just everyone I’ve ever heard say it in real life ever?
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