Don't know if you read this but in this day and age I wonder sometimes, especially when people do not pronounce words correctly
You hear people sometimes miss pronounce words and they simply know no better. Makes my skin crawl and I shudder sometimes, even the simple words like think?
Some people make it sound like thinkkkk, better still fink
A recent contestant on “Wheel of Fortune” is getting a lot of attention on the internet after she was denied her winnings because of the way she pronounced a word.
10 points and top score seremtan. I was hoping another might bite first but any catch is good
I did know better than to mis spell the obvious (here) but threw a line in the pond and (thanks) got a couple of bites.
Captain Mazda wrote:OP should learn how to spell basic words before complaining about "pronouncation".
8 points to second place Captain Mazda, but let me now wish you all a great 2013, a Happy Hew Year One& better
Memphis wrote:People who say 'nucular', being one of my biggest peeves in this area.
Especially annoying also when it's professional actors - whose job is to read fucking words out - stutter and fuck up on words like 'grotesque' (looking at you Jamie Lannister, you pretty little faggot).
Extra laughs cause it's a Scottish person telling people they pronounce things wrong.
Also Australians and Welsh complaining about pronounciation: Get a clue.
Here's one I bet you fucktard nerds miss-pronounce:
Titanium
The first syllable is said like the first syllable of "Titan", the word it comes from; and it (the rest) rhymes with gymnasium.
Have fun with that one!
Aluminium, a popular one to argue about, doesn't even count, cause they spell it differently
Just like "colour" and "color", are you seeting it yet?!
I'll tell you what's really fucked up, though: The mis-spelling of Japanese (and Chinese) words in romaji; it's like the French taught them to spell! That's not how you spell "Re-yu"! "Ryu" would be said like "Ryan". FFS. (Not like LYON! French town!)
If you don't understand phonetics you won't spell anything properly without memorization, which basically means you can't spell. To put it another way: memorizing a load of spellings is not the same as being able to spell. (Cause you'll only be able to recite the spellings of those words you memorized.)
DTS wrote:Extra laughs cause it's a Scottish person telling people they pronounce things wrong.
Also Australians and Welsh complaining about pronounciation: Get a clue.
Here's one I bet you fucktard nerds miss-pronounce:
Titanium
The first syllable is said like the first syllable of "Titan", the word it comes from; and it (the rest) rhymes with gymnasium.
Have fun with that one!
Aluminium, a popular one to argue about, doesn't even count, cause they spell it differently
Just like "colour" and "color", are you seeting it yet?!
I'll tell you what's really fucked up, though: The mis-spelling of Japanese (and Chinese) words in romaji; it's like the French taught them to spell! That's not how you spell "Re-yu"! "Ryu" would be said like "Ryan". FFS. (Not like LYON! French town!)
DTS wrote:If you don't understand phonetics you won't spell anything properly without memorization, which basically means you can't spell. To put it another way: memorizing a load of spellings is not the same as being able to spell. (Cause you'll only be able to recite the spellings of those words you memorized.)
Memphis wrote:The Wire has another - when they actually pronounce ask, as 'AKS'. I can't even do that if I fucking TYR.
That wasn't just The Wire, it's pretty common in the working classes and more specifically black people.
I get a rise out of using as much slang and vernacular as possible because I think language is always changing, and being direct and proper is fuckin' lame.
We learned to do that when we had German exchange students in highschool. Sometimes we didn't want them to know what we were saying so all you had to do is talk in heavy slang or change which syl-LAH-bull you placed your em-PHAS-is
DTS wrote:If you don't understand phonetics you won't spell anything properly without memorization, which basically means you can't spell. To put it another way: memorizing a load of spellings is not the same as being able to spell. (Cause you'll only be able to recite the spellings of those words you memorized.)
memorisation, memorised (memorised)
Both spellings are valid. Depends on where you are. But, since he's on your side of the water he should have spelled it like you did.
Dearest creature in creation Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I: Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. (Mind the latter, how it's written.) Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery, Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore, Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles, Exiles, similes and reviles; Scholar, vicar, and cigar. Solar, mica, war and far; One, anemone, Balmoral Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel; Gertrude, German, wind and mind, Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamor And enamour rhyme with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and droll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangor. Soul but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, knob, bosom, transom, oath. Through the differences seem little, We say actual, but also victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, Conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succor, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye. Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, brass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging. Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here, but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation - think of Psyche! Is it paling, stout and spiky?Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits?It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough -Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is to give it up!
It is an odd one in the UK given that we have the "Celtic Manor" hotel and golf complex in Wales, but in Scotland Celtic, the football team is pronounced "Seltic"
It is one of those things thats openly accepted though
It is an odd one in the UK given that we have the "Celtic Manor" hotel and golf complex in Wales, but in Scotland Celtic, the football team is pronounced "Seltic"
It is one of those things thats openly accepted though
aye, Celtic with a hard C (K) is a Greek/academia thing that we're stuck with.
Don Carlos wrote:"Lemme arks you a question yeh"
lardie-speak drives me batshit, it just makes people sound thick. it's the mis-application that bugs me as much as how awful it sounds, e.g. "fam" and "blood" used to be an indication of great trust/familiarity between freinds and now they just mean 'mate'. can imagine it's infuriating for the handful of kids that are actually from Jamaican families. had a really awkward moment at football a while back where a young lad called the coach a pussy clot and had his teeth damn-near slapped out for it (the coach is a Jamaican pensioner). luckily the lad apologised after he'd had a bit of a cry about human rights or something and then everyone agreed that they hadn't seen anything.
on my PC at least
