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OctoberBlues posted:Go ahead, let's hear them. I have two that come to mind. Please excuse my attempts to convey pronunciation, I don't fully understand the official way to do it, and you probably don't either, so I basically just sound it out in writing. I like to pronounce hyperbole as hyper-bowl. Like some sort of football bloodsport event where knives and jetpacks are involved.
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OctoberBlues posted:There is some David Sedaris story about his old neighbor lady that always says terlet, it's such a goofy pronunciation and I'm sad I've never heard anyone actually say it. Thank New York. Why soitanly! http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/05/new-york-accent.html Curl and coil sort of defeat this, though. ---- Canadians pronouncing process with a long o. Why. Why that ONE WORD. People who pronounce tenet tenant and tack tact should be brained with a cast iron skillet.
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Feb 17, 2017 01:43
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Hardawn posted:My grams said oye-ange fit orange and my dad says torlet for toilet New Orleans folks reporting in for: "turlet" "zink" (sink) "wrench" (rinse) "burl" (boil) "earl" (oil) "fridgidaire" (I'm aware that this is a dumpster/kleenex-type situation, but it confused the poo poo out of me as a child) I personally say "micwowave"/"micowave", because the real thing is a physically impossible word for me to say apparently. 
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Feb 17, 2017 05:27
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Let's call the whole thing off!
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Feb 17, 2017 06:01
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Ore-gone instead of Orgehn Like, how do people actually pronounce a loving entire state's name wrong Everyone who lives there says it that way and everyone will tell you that
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Feb 17, 2017 06:07
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Teikanmi posted:Ore-gone instead of Orgehn For some reason everyone in Minnesota says Ore-uh-gone. It was really annoying.
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Feb 17, 2017 06:21
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"across-t" There's no loving T.
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Feb 17, 2017 06:41
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This is kind of a different thing, but there was a lady at the last company I worked for who was a vice president of the company and she always said "I seen" instead of "I saw" and no one had the balls to say to her, hey you sound like a dumb loving hick.
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Feb 17, 2017 06:44
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Teikanmi posted:Ore-gone instead of Orgehn Yes, when actors say it that way it's super distracting. Also Spo-kain
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Feb 17, 2017 06:51
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I had a friend in high school who insisted on pronouncing ancient as ank-shunt. Also, I know it's not technically incorrect, but I hate hearing people go out of their way to enunciate "an historic." Either use "a" or go full Cockney 'istoric. The worst word one can say in English though, will always be "sixths." Doesn't matter who you are.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:03
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Melk Dat instead of that
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Feb 17, 2017 07:11
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Lol at people from out of my city trying to pronounce kuykendahl dr correct. It's kirk-en-dahl not whatever garbage you're trying to say.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:17
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Feb 17, 2017 07:27
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Every British pronunciation of foreign words is dumpster-speak.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:37
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Somehow I learned the word adjucent from reading instead of learning as my dad would always just say caddy-corner when he meant accross a diagonol.... now i pronounce it adj-aye-cent and everyone calls me on it. To this day I can't remember which is correct until I look it up. Its Uh-jaye-cent. Its uh-jaye-cent. its uh-jaye-cent its uh-jaye-cent its uhjaycent its uhjaycent its uh-jay-cent, its adgj-accent gently caress!
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Feb 17, 2017 07:55
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500 bad things posted:Yes, when actors say it that way it's super distracting. Also Spo-kain There are a few things I would be better off not knowing and one of those things is the right way to say Spokane.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:59
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Its actually pretty cool.... American english is according to analysts much more likely to be how england pronounced the words at the times of the puritan flee and after it has staid roughly the same due to it not being the primary language in many neighborhoods. Supposedly american's speak more "proper" english than englishman because they continued to evolved the pronunciations over centuries after it was cut from the puritans. Hell look at the word neighborhood, that is a straight up middle english word that we still use to this day with the same pronunciation as centuries ago. Kind of interesting
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Sheep-Goats posted:There are a few things I would be better off not knowing and one of those things is the right way to say Spokane. pretty sure its Spo-kane cuz of movies. We good brah.
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Feb 17, 2017 07:59
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Wendigee posted:pretty sure its Spo-kane cuz of movies. We good brah. I've been there a number of times, sadly.
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Sheep-Goats posted:I've been there a number of times, sadly. how is it supposed to be pronounced you monster do not leave me to hang.
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Feb 17, 2017 08:09
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Carbine. It shouldn't sound like carbean, these are firearms not baked beans.
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Feb 17, 2017 08:12
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AluMINium
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Prorat posted:Carbine. yeah its french, so its car-bean I agree but it is what it is.
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Feb 17, 2017 08:13
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Schweinhund posted:AluMINium NOPE its aluminum, says the greatest producer in the world of the stuff before china found deposits and we still order it as aluminum so you lose limey! [edit]its a proper dumb name conspiracy i tells ya http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm some twat named it in theory decades before it was even created and he was british so the british used that dumb name even though it doesn't match the other nomenclature of similar elements found when it was actually found hence the USA and Canada using the proper found names. Wendigee fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Feb 17, 2017 |
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too lazy to read entire thread so far so apologies if any of these have been said already: - overarking - nukeyaller - aks - expresso - pae-sta - mischeeveeous - supposably - egg sedera oh and my biggest peeve, it's "poKEHmon", not "pokeymon", people.
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Feb 17, 2017 08:22
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inkajoo posted:too lazy to read entire thread so far so apologies if any of these have been said already: at least be not so lazy as to not provide the right pronunciation.... its just shameful to know its incorrect but not know the correct way..... drat man brutal. that's all just written in american syllables and even most parts of america don't use them the same way bud
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Feb 17, 2017 08:30
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I feel like epi-tome would be a much cooler pronunciation.
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Feb 17, 2017 08:31
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ArbitraryC posted:I feel like epi-tome would be a much cooler pronunciation. yes, but its a loan word, from greek?, so we use the pronunciation from the original language as much as possible. eee-pit-oh-mee
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inkajoo posted:oh and my biggest peeve, it's "poKEHmon", not "pokeymon", people. In that vein, karaoke is not pronounced "kerry-okie," and it's "Tokyo," not "Tokiyo." It's not a 3-syllable word (technically it's 4 syllables, but anyway...) Baka gaijin.
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demo demonstrate demonstrator demonstration demonstrative I get that it flows better, but it's inconsistent, god drat it.
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Hobologist posted:In that vein, karaoke is not pronounced "kerry-okie," and it's "Tokyo," not "Tokiyo." It's not a 3-syllable word (technically it's 4 syllables, but anyway...) you do realize you didn't help anyone right? try it again with american syllables. I think Tokyo is supposed to be Tok-yo? Is that wrong? Also Kerry-yokie is totally how americans pronounce it, whats the proper way?
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Feb 17, 2017 09:39
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ArgumentatumE.C.T. posted:demo yeah english is a total bitch language and it doesn't follow rules. youll just drive yourself crazy.
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Wendigee posted:you do realize you didn't help anyone right? try it again with american syllables. I think Tokyo is supposed to be Tok-yo? Is that wrong? Also Kerry-yokie is totally how americans pronounce it, whats the proper way? kara-oh-keh Though the "oh-keh" part is a borrowed word of "orchestra." So it's really the japanese that are loving up the pronunciation in the first place. Mu Zeta fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Feb 17, 2017 |
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Wendigee posted:you do realize you didn't help anyone right? try it again with american syllables. I think Tokyo is supposed to be Tok-yo? Is that wrong? Also Kerry-yokie is totally how americans pronounce it, whats the proper way? Bro, this thread is for pronouncing words wrong. If you want to pronounce words right, make your own thread. Tokyo is To-kyo and if you read "kara oke" the way a Spanish person would it should be close enough for anyone but the wee-est of weeaboos.
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Panacea should be pan-ace-uh instead of pan-uh-see-uh and it flips me the Frick out that the clunky way is the actual way
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Crimson Harvest posted:Every British pronunciation of foreign words is dumpster-speak. I think there was a time in the 18th century when pronouncing foreign words according to English rules was considered fashionable, like saying the S in Calais. I suppose it was a protest against French being the lingua franca of Europe. I think now they're just doing it to be dicks, though.
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Hobologist posted:I think there was a time in the 18th century when pronouncing foreign words according to English rules was considered fashionable, like saying the S in Calais. I suppose it was a protest against French being the lingua franca of Europe. I think now they're just doing it to be dicks, though. accurate view: aluMINium
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Hobologist posted:Bro, this thread is for pronouncing words wrong. If you want to pronounce words right, make your own thread. don't push me!
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Aluminium: Lighter than alumedium and lighter still than alumaxium. I think that's what we should call Aluminum-28 and -29, but apparently we've made all the way up to Al-42. Aludekahypermaxium?
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