My wife is Japanese, so I get odd pronunciations all the time. Examples include procotol, mouse wash, grand beef, lifesaver(when discussing Star Wars), forgettable(instead of forgetful)... even our daughter's name comes out as Caitolin instead of Caitlin.
Funny thing, that... we also spell it wrong. I say it that way because it's been spelled aluminum my entire life, in chemistry classes, metal shops, even in the military where I dabbled in shaping aircraft aluminum. The first time I heard "aluminium" pronounced (I believe I was 17 or 18... some time around the turn of the millennium), my gut reaction was "Why the fuck did you add another i? Are you stupid?"
Ah I didn't think about spelling, seeing as it's an element I presumed it would be a universal way to spell it, especially (as someone said above) that 80 elements end in "ium" and only 4 end in "um".
Well being dutch, I had a russian professor for a mathematical course once, and the way he said 'definitie' was fantastic. It's supposed to be (defin-ee-tsee in english phonetics I guess), but the way he said it it would become 'deb-niz-iye'
IT IS NOT "SODDER", there is a motherfucking "L" right there! Say him, he is a nice friendly letter.
It's like the word
Sod in British English is a somewhat offensive, pejorative term for a person, derived from sodomite[1] but rarely nowadays used with this meaning. As an insult, it is generally teamed with 'off', i.e., 'sod off' meaning to get lost/go away/stop bothering me/fuck off. It can generally be applied to refer to a person in a most basic sense and frequently preceded by a modifying adjective (?That crazy sod almost ran me over!?). It can be used as many different parts of speech ? e.g. in the imperative mood, ?Sod off, you slag!?; or in adjective form, ?sodding bastard?. Such uses as ?Sod it!? and ?Sod this? are often exclamations of frustration.
, you are a sodder, like it's an adjective.
I think the only word with an L in that you don't pronounce is Salmon but with solder you say the "L".
I've always pronounce melee and meme as me-lee and me-me due to not having heard the words spoken until much later than I learned them. Saying meilei and meem sounds really wrong to me.
APLovecraft said:
on another note; in warriors:legends of troy did anybody else get annoyed with the pronunciation of some of the characters names ie:
Odysseus (o-diss-ee-us) becoming (o-diss-ay-us)
&
Zeus (zoos) becoming (zay-us)
did anybody else notice that? have i been pronouncing greek names wrong?
i know they arent english words i was just curious
x
Cumin its a spice and its pronounced Qu-Min but i've watched sooo many cooking shows where they pronounce it "Cummin" it just makes me laugh because one time a host was even trying to correct the cook and she got embarrassed because its basically a dirty word. hahaha
one that really bothers me is the word Fungi, its Fun-guy, not Fun-Jai or Fun-Jee * eye twitches * if it were pronounced Fun-Jee, Fungi would be spelt with a J
I have found that a lot of my lecturers have a problem with the word circuit - admittedly english isn't there first language, but it still bothers me when they pronounce it cir-quit.
I'm Dutch and, if I may say so, my verbal skills are almost on a native level. Sadly though 90% of the time dealing with English where I live sounds like this:
*crawls into a corner and starts to weep*
oh god it wasn't until a year ago that i heard the correct pronunciation...was COMPLETELY off. sad thing is everyone i know pronounced it the same way i did, so it's not uncommon in my area.
oh god it wasn't until a year ago that i heard the correct pronunciation...was COMPLETELY off. sad thing is everyone i know pronounced it the same way i did, so it's not uncommon in my area.
i got a mate who says skeleton "skel-ing-ton" not too bad in normall conversation but when you are playing dnd with the guy it can get a bit odd
when my sister first saw the word oesophagus in some school work when she was 12 or something she pronounced it
"os-e-o-fagus" me and my mum looked at her baffeled for a bit untill we worked out what she was going on about
Funny thing, that... we also spell it wrong. I say it that way because it's been spelled aluminum my entire life, in chemistry classes, metal shops, even in the military where I dabbled in shaping aircraft aluminum. The first time I heard "aluminium" pronounced (I believe I was 17 or 18... some time around the turn of the millennium), my gut reaction was "Why the fuck did you add another i? Are you stupid?"
Serious. Both spellings and pronunciations are correct (now. Yes, your way was "first!"... and like an annoying internet person, you folks like to remind people of that). I've seen your crazy foreign periodic tables with their extra "i" now that I've been around the world a few times... but back when I was a teenager, I would have felt the same way about your pronunciation as you do about mine.
I can only think of 2 off the top of my head. One I only hear every now and then, and it's "Taw-lit" for Toilet
The one that really, really gets me though is Yoghurt. It seems that Yoh-gurt, which is an Americanism has become the main pronunciation nearly everywhere, even in the UK. The correct pronunciation is Yog-urt.
I don't know why it irks me so much, but I can't stand hearing everyone say Yoh-gurt
IT IS NOT "SODDER", there is a motherfucking "L" right there! Say him, he is a nice friendly letter.
It's like the word
Sod in British English is a somewhat offensive, pejorative term for a person, derived from sodomite[1] but rarely nowadays used with this meaning. As an insult, it is generally teamed with 'off', i.e., 'sod off' meaning to get lost/go away/stop bothering me/fuck off. It can generally be applied to refer to a person in a most basic sense and frequently preceded by a modifying adjective (?That crazy sod almost ran me over!?). It can be used as many different parts of speech ? e.g. in the imperative mood, ?Sod off, you slag!?; or in adjective form, ?sodding bastard?. Such uses as ?Sod it!? and ?Sod this? are often exclamations of frustration.
, you are a sodder, like it's an adjective.
I think the only word with an L in that you don't pronounce is Salmon but with solder you say the "L".
(This next bit I just made up).
Maybe we should just chalk it up to the evolution of language over time.
This has me wondering what other words have silent letters in some dialects that I've always taken to be the norm. You guys leave the L sound out of caulk, calf, and yolk, yes?
But pronounce the L's in "palm"/"calm"/"almond"? Some websites indicate that the L's are silent for those three for some dialects, so I suppose I'm interested in what 'standard' British English uses.
Edit: But don't even get me started on Colonel/colonel...
IT IS NOT "SODDER", there is a motherfucking "L" right there! Say him, he is a nice friendly letter.
It's like the word
Sod in British English is a somewhat offensive, pejorative term for a person, derived from sodomite[1] but rarely nowadays used with this meaning. As an insult, it is generally teamed with 'off', i.e., 'sod off' meaning to get lost/go away/stop bothering me/fuck off. It can generally be applied to refer to a person in a most basic sense and frequently preceded by a modifying adjective (?That crazy sod almost ran me over!?). It can be used as many different parts of speech ? e.g. in the imperative mood, ?Sod off, you slag!?; or in adjective form, ?sodding bastard?. Such uses as ?Sod it!? and ?Sod this? are often exclamations of frustration.
, you are a sodder, like it's an adjective.
I think the only word with an L in that you don't pronounce is Salmon but with solder you say the "L".
(This next bit I just made up).
Maybe we should just chalk it up to the evolution of language over time.
This has me wondering what other words have silent letters in some dialects that I've always taken to be the norm. You guys leave the L sound out of caulk, calf, and yolk, yes? But pronounce the L's in "palm"/"calm"/"almond"? Edit: But don't even get me started on Colonel/colonel...
To be honest, I spent a good ten minutes trying to think of examples of the L being silent and could only muster "salmon" ... I guess it was like when you're on the phone and you say "N for ..." and the only ones that jump to mind are racist or don't start with N "knot, knife, knee knob, knuckle"
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