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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Word pronunciations that piss you off
 
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ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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I feel like epi-tome would be a much cooler pronunciation.

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ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
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theres a will theres moe posted:

it's a mulTIMeter, not a MULTImeter.

You don't say SPEEDOmeter or ODOmeter. SpeeDOMeter. oDOMeter. Emphasis on the prefix is reserved for the unit, if that. NANOmeter. CENTImeter. KILOmeter a sometimes-exception for some reason.

A while ago NPR had a guy on talking about how back when chinese food was new in the US, the mary tyler moore show was pronouncing it "chinese FOOD" insead of "chiNESE food." It was weird and interesting.
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