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Could it be...the most pedantic book in the world?   Let's test it out...how do you pronounce "chorus?"  Then cho-rus it must be. Would you to talk like an elocution professor of the previous century? Let me know which words you require clarification on, and I will look them up. Please, let us maintain decorum.  
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how do you pronounce sword
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Mar 13, 2022 19:35
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bossy lady posted:how do you pronounce sword  Good question, it is pronounced sword, not sword.
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Mar 13, 2022 19:53
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GIF.
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Mar 13, 2022 20:04
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 We may extrapolate that the correct pronounciation is in fact gif not jif.
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Mar 13, 2022 20:12
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Let's see what it has to say about "often"
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Mar 13, 2022 20:17
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I have embarrassed myself with harbinger and epitome, so let's see what the authority has to say.
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Mar 13, 2022 20:26
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Hovel
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Mar 13, 2022 20:27
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Carbine
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Mar 13, 2022 20:28
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Devils Affricate posted:Let's see what it has to say about "often"  ...it's even got a reference from the web to back it up.
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Mar 13, 2022 20:53
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I would like to see accost.
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Mar 13, 2022 20:54
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marshmallow creep posted:I have embarrassed myself with harbinger and epitome, so let's see what the authority has to say.  ...bonus points for requesting the page with the correct pronounciation of "harass."  I hope you never have to say epi-TOME ever again.
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Mar 13, 2022 21:02
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Coitus is a funny word
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Mar 13, 2022 21:09
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How about 'schedule?' The brits don't seem to know how to say that at all. Or colonel. No one knows how to pronounce that. Is Leicestershire even a word? The pronunciation of that is insanity.
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Mar 13, 2022 21:10
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Oyak posted:
Hah, I knew it. People who pronounce the T are wrong! They think that's the right way to say it but they've got it backwards. What a bunch of morons!
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Mar 13, 2022 21:14
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Phyzzle posted:Hovel  ...also some old-timey pronounciations of "housewife" for good measure.
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Mar 13, 2022 21:15
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Pretty sure Houston is pronounced differently in NYC.
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Mar 13, 2022 21:15
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EorayMel posted:Carbine  Watch how you say "card" around this guy.
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Mar 13, 2022 21:20
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Sophy Wackles posted:I would like to see accost.  You picked a controversial one.
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Mar 13, 2022 21:23
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ikanreed posted:Coitus is a funny word Sorry, but there was no listing for "coitus." Either everybody was in agreement about this word, or it was a love that dare not speak its name.
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Mar 13, 2022 21:25
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Oyak posted:
Lmao that's even better
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Mar 13, 2022 21:27
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Oyak posted:
To be fair, if I were surrounded by people who for some reason pronounced "card" as "kyard" I would probably want to write an angry book about it too
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Mar 13, 2022 21:28
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roentgen
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Mar 13, 2022 21:29
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lol @ "orthoëptists"
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Mar 13, 2022 21:42
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“Either”. That or “potato”/“tomato”. https://youtu.be/LOILZ_D3aRg
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Non Krampus Mentis posted:“Either” really, either way is fine
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Mar 13, 2022 22:21
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Hegemony
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Mar 13, 2022 22:30
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  bro do you mean ɒ, ɑ, and ɔ? bro IPA was standardized in 1888 bro this looks like an ad-hoc variation of the Merriam-Webster/American Heritage house styles that they use in grade schools and they tend to erroneously conflate the open-mid front unrounded vowel and the close-mid front unrounded vowel as allophonic when forming a diphthong with a mid central vowel and followed by a voiced alveolar approximant, soooo um ya kinda cringe bro
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Mar 13, 2022 22:31
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Gooch and Brooch, respectively.
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Mar 13, 2022 22:32
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Cubone posted:
Watch out, the OP is gonna find a page of this book entirely devoted to fiercely compare/contrasting them like card to prove you wrong!
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Mar 13, 2022 22:37
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Cubone posted:
 IPA should be taught in K-12
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Mar 13, 2022 22:43
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I legit thought you just had an IPA reference sheet. I don't know what else you'd need. But the big question is if we can get recordings of the "right" and "wrong" pronunciations. That would be interesting.
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Mar 13, 2022 22:44
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Waltzing Along posted:How about 'schedule?' The brits don't seem to know how to say that at all.  You're right, there have been four or five competing British pronounciations of schedule for hundreds of years, apparently.  ...somewhat more straightforward.
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Mar 13, 2022 22:59
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Waltzing Along posted:Is Leicestershire even a word? The pronunciation of that is insanity.    ...reminiscent of the card/kyard controversy
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Mar 13, 2022 23:02
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Ralph Hurley posted:roentgen  Let me say at this point that I now have great respect for this book.
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Mar 13, 2022 23:03
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Empty Sandwich posted:lol @ "orthoëptists" 
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Mar 13, 2022 23:08
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Non Krampus Mentis posted:“Either”. That or “potato”/“tomato”. 
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Empty Sandwich posted:really, either way is fine  lol that joke is over 100 years old!
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Foyer, fillet, and garage
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Devils Affricate posted:Foyer, fillet, and garage Foy-er (voyeur with an 'F') Fill-A Gah-raj
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