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Saying "probably" as "probaly." I don't find "prob'ly" irritating but when they do three syllables and leave out that second B it just drives me mad.
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Feb 19, 2017 23:07
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Tendai posted:Saying "probably" as "probaly." I don't find "prob'ly" irritating but when they do three syllables and leave out that second B it just drives me mad. I say prolly
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Feb 19, 2017 23:10
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My Latino compas and how they pronounce some English words of French origin, esp: Buffet - (boo-fet) Fillet - (fill-et) Shout-out to the Guatemalans for the comedy option: sheet of paper sounds like "poo poo" of paper
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Feb 19, 2017 23:17
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Ask the Guatemalan maid to change the bed shits but actually put shits in the bed for her to change and also she actually changes them what a twist!
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Feb 19, 2017 23:26
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Dear Liverpudlians, I lived among you for 3 glorious years and anyone who says one bad word about the place should surely be beaten outside a chip shop on Bold Street at 3am, I adored my time there! Took longer than average for me to grasp the parlance. However, I am goddamn fecking sure that Ibuprofen is not pronounced EYE-BREW-FEN and yet nurses all over the city said it like that. What gives? Love and Don't Buy the Sun!
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Feb 21, 2017 01:58
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I couldn't watch the Hungary episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern because of the way he pronounced "paprika" throughout the episode. Myself and everybody I know: PAH-PREE-KAH. Andrew Zimmern: *like fuckin' Thurston Howell III* PAAAAAAAHHH-PRI-KA.
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Feb 21, 2017 02:29
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My boss when talking about printer toner will say "Ky-ann" and I'll say "sigh-ann" and everyone I know says it like cy not ky but I hear my boss saying it that way so much I started to doubt my self. Is it a regional thing or is he just wrong?
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Feb 21, 2017 03:21
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Baronjutter posted:My boss when talking about printer toner will say "Ky-ann" and I'll say "sigh-ann" and everyone I know says it like cy not ky but I hear my boss saying it that way so much I started to doubt my self. Is it a regional thing or is he just wrong? Yes and no. The word comes from the Greek word kuaneos. So in the Greek region he'd be right.
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Feb 21, 2017 04:11
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Hobologist posted:Yes and no. The word comes from the Greek word kuaneos. So in the Greek region he'd be right. But there's already a k in cmyk
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Feb 21, 2017 05:22
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theres a will theres moe posted:But there's already a k in cmyk what does the y stand for
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Feb 21, 2017 05:29
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I don't like the regular pronunciation of superfluous.
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Feb 21, 2017 05:58
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500 bad things posted:what does the y stand for Yes.
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Feb 21, 2017 11:10
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Posting on the innernet
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Feb 21, 2017 11:44
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My mom talks about sending "texes" and I can't tell if she thinks it's actually "tex" or can't be bothered to pronounce all those consonants at the end of "texts". Also I talk to Canadians who say ad-ult and it doesn't piss me off so much as make me realize uh-dult sounds goofy.
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Feb 21, 2017 13:33
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My regional accent is pretty mild but we do some really dumb poo poo around here. A lot of words like mountain or curtain get a glottal stop instead of that middle T sound. We care enough to try and pronounce the local native names but not simple nouns? Cmon, fam.
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Feb 21, 2017 18:41
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Not a native English speaker. "Ow switch" for Auschwitz.
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Feb 21, 2017 18:44
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the word "work" really drives me up the wall for some reason and i'm not trying to be funny by poking at my laziness, I just genuinely dislike the word. I use words to get around it very often. unpleasantly turgid fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Feb 21, 2017 18:46
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For some reason it really annoys me when people say "Modge Podge" instead of Mod Podge. I've never heard anyone pronounce it as written, though, so I don't even know what's correct.
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Mar 7, 2017 22:03
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Quarksley posted:For some reason it really annoys me when people say "Modge Podge" instead of Mod Podge. I've never heard anyone pronounce it as written, though, so I don't even know what's correct. I always do this, sorry. I also say it with a heavy new-england accent because my introduction to the stuff was a youtube tutorial with a guy with an amazing accent going on about his mooydge pooydge
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Mar 7, 2017 23:43
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Not a pronunciation, but wrong synonym. Attending zoophysiology class right now, and some of my classmates use "epinephrine" because it says so in the course literature (American book). Well, on this side of the Atlantic it's called f-ing ADRENALINE! And we speak Swedish amongst ourselves, where adrenaline is the accepted everyday use of the word and epinephrine is unheard outside of textbook and American medical dramas, so in Swedish it's even more jarring. Before this class they would all be calling it adrenaline, but as soon as it's called epinephrine by a book, half of the class switch the terms on a dime. Both words mean the same thing, but epinephrine is Greek and adrenaline is Latin.
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Mar 8, 2017 01:15
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Falukorv posted:Not a pronunciation, but wrong synonym. Attending zoophysiology class right now, and some of my classmates use "epinephrine" because it says so in the course literature (American book). seems like that guy really had the epinephrine running through your veins huh?
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Mar 8, 2017 01:31
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My understanding of common usage is the pharmaceutical is epinephrine, whereas the stuff produced by the body is adrenaline. Not sure about medical fields...
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Mar 8, 2017 01:33
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Corky Romanovsky posted:My understanding of common usage is the pharmaceutical is epinephrine, whereas the stuff produced by the body is adrenaline. Not sure about medical fields... In Europe and the UK, adrenaline is the approved name in pharmaceuticals as well.
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Mar 8, 2017 01:48
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Language is different thousands of miles away. Who knew. I was meaning in the U.S. common usage.
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Mar 8, 2017 02:13
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Sorry, I misunderstood. It's kind of weird, even in American English it's adrenorgenic receptors, adrenergic neurons, medical derivates of the substance is called things like adrenalone, anatomical parts are called "adrenal" something, but it's only the substance itself carries the Greek name epinephrine, everything else around it carries the Latin root. One could easily make the case for adrenaline in American English as well.
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