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TV ClubHouse: Archives: "PICTURE" instead of "PITCHER" ?: Archive through September 18, 2002

Cathie

Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:01 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Had to LOL while reading this thread at work (*cough* *cough* break time, of course) the operator made an overhead page to "please send awl ex-tree pneumatic tubes to the emergency room". By the time she repeated it the third time I was on the floor. :)

At least she did pronounce pneumatic correctly... :)

Tobor7

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 03:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tonight-- for a few times Lisa actually said it right! She said PICTURE! I think Jason saying it right somehow put a spell on her. But I heard it... she said it right.
(I knew it. All along.)

...and all is well in TVClubHouse Land!

Bernie

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 04:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Can't let this thread fade into the sunset, so, Danielle just said ling-erry, not langherie. How can I write this? Okay, she said it as if it was the name Bing, instead of the usual French pronunciation!

Abby7

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
do you know Eddie Izzard, the English comedian? he is truly funny and had a special a few years back on HBO. while using the word "herb" he said, "and it's pronounced 'Herb' (cleary pronoucning the 'h') BECAUSE it's got a FU#### H!

you really "had to be there" to think it's funny...but it was. anyway, that guy is hysterical in that comedy special (especially his history lessons...classic)

Tobor7

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, Abby. I saw that Eddie Izzard show! It was so very funny I taped it to lend to others.

Chiparock

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Bernie, guess she sees the word "Lingerie" printed in the ads and on signs at the store, but never actually talks with the sales clerks who would be happy to sell her lahn-jer-AY (as long as she doesn't LING-er)!

Often there is a word I read which I really am not sure how to pronounce, and when I do hear it spoken, it's said differently. A couple of examples: DEB-acle/de-BAC-le and APP-licable/app-LICK-able. I'm always convinced that when I use the word myself, the person I'm talking with thinks I'm an illiterate jerk who can't pronounce words correctly. [BTW, I use DEB-acle and APP-licable. Is this correct?]

That's one reason I love this thread: language is open to so much debate!

Abby7

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
oh Tobor, wasn't it a riot (i loved his "history lessons" remember about the flags and "do you HAVE A flag????). i'm going to have to check out blockbuster and see if i can buy a copy as i haven't seen it repeated once! i need to get it and loan it out because i'm so pathetic at trying to tell others how funny it was...(i really need to just hand them the tape).

Bernie

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Chiparock, I know! I think that happens to all of us, and one does feel silly! (I wasn't being mean to Danielle, I just enjoy this thread too!)

Abby and Tobor, doncha know that Brit comedians are the BEST???

Yllek

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 05:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Just have to add my own 2 cents. I am originally from Northern Illinois and moved out to the Pacific Northwest last year and everyone comments on my accent because I say "cah-llege" and not college. Great thread, by the way!

Joker11962

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 06:08 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
my two cents...

The word "foyer". On the Michigan stations, the house sellers say foy / er. Here in Canada we say foy / eh! Go figure!

Tobor7

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 07:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How do you say the thing you put your clothes in?

DRAWER

I have a friend that says

DRAW

Now today--- it was funny watching Jason say PICTURE to Lisa... who has reverted back to PITCHER in a big way. I had to turn the sound off when they were taking them.
Lisa saying PITCHER is like nails on a blackboard to me. I just can't listen to it!

Draheid

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 07:42 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hmmm, I put my clothes in the closet or hamper ... I wear my drawers! :O

Twiggyish

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 08:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about supposedly pronounced as supposebly?

Tobor7

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 08:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Twig--
I think that was one of the best Joey lines in Friends a few years back!!

Abby7

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 09:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
i love those carpentry show and used to watch this guy with the Boston (???) accent, forget his name now. the guy with the most expensive workshop imagineable. so as a carpenter, of course, he would say der-or-ers thousands of time. i loved it.

for those of you in Los Angeles area....you may know Huell Howser from KCET...he has a great accent from TN ?.... i love him too! love him. so sweet.

Abby7

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 09:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
actually i must have the der-or-ers wrong. i'm terrible with "accents". my husband is a pro with accents.

Wcv63

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 09:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
One of most embarrassing moments from highschool came at the hands of a mispronounced word.

I had to give a big presentation and speech in my history class. I loved my history teacher, I loved the class, I loved the challenges given us. My speech was about the Department of Defense (interesting side note that one of the greatest PR moves by our government was changing the name of this department to Department of Defense from Department of War).

The word "deter" was in my speech. Although I read a LOT and had seen the word in print many, many, many times I had never actually heard it said aloud. Sometimes when reading you just "hear" the word in your head, know what it means and keep going.

Anyway, I pronounced the word "DEE-ter"...ummmm rhymes with meter. My teacher guffawed. That is the only way to describe the sound that came out of his mouth. I was so shocked I turned pasty white and then felt the blood rush to my face. He corrected my pronounciation and all my classmates sat there grinning at my error. I thought I would die of embarrassment. Of course I didn't. But I sure did learn to look up the pronounciation of every word before I gave a speech.

Willsfan

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 09:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Abby7 was it Norm? He used to be on Bob Villas program (This Old House) and he had his own program too. Those New England accents are so cool. But, when I was in New Orleans last summer the cajun accents just floored me. I wanted to stay down there just to listen to them talk. LOL That and eat their wonderful food.

Bernie

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 10:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Wcv, that was so cruel and insensitive! It may have taught you a lesson but it was unnecessarily harsh! (((Wcv)))

My most recent memory of mispronunciation was with the word 'inventory' because I was doing the annual one for the first time in my school library, and the principal, with whom I got along well, corrected my British pronunciation of the word...I was embarrassed as heck, but we laughed about it, because I joked about the British/North American difference, so I was able to save face somewhat. Still makes me blush, though to recall it!

Abby7

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 10:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Willsfan: yeah, Norm!

Wcv63: i hear you! when i was around 8 i had the teacher from hell. her name was Mrs. Hinnman. she loved to call upon a student (not students who were "bad") and humiliate them. honestly. i had just finished a long "speech" i had to give in front of the class (i was quite shy and was very proud of the job i had done). after i finished i started to go to my seat. she stopped me and had me prounouce over and over and over the words, fuel, fool, full. apparently i had said one of the words incorrectly. she would not let me sit down and made me say those words in front of the class for about 10 minutes over and over and over. i was in tears by the time i sat down and she just grinned. she loved to make her students cry!

i can honestly say this was the only woman i knew as a child that i can call a •••••. and honest to goodness •••••. i can tell you other stories that she did to the other students that were so much worse(and to my best friend at the time) that were so, so cruel you would not believe it! she was an elementary school teacher and a true •••••! i even looked her name up on google but couldn't find her. i would still to this day love to write her a letter about all my memories of her. the •••••. (CAN YOU TELL I STILL DON'T LIKE HER?)

Abby7

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 11:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
whew, thanks for letting me vent...i had no idea how much anger i still had for that lady and i was able to call her a ••••• on the internet for everyone to see....even if it comes out as 5 red dots...she is still a •••••, will always be a •••••...the •••••!!! thank you..the end!

Willsfan

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 11:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
((((Abby7)))) This board is a wonderful place to vent. You have friends here.

Chiparock

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Some teachers are born sadists. I spent my first year of high school at a parochial school, and had Sister Leo Joseph for English. I was called on for some question, and had to say the name "Stephen." I pronounced it "Steffen" and was soundly denounced before the whole class in a very snotty tone of voice and told not to be coy, the name is STEE-ven! That's about all I remember of her and of that class. I transferred to a public school the following year.

Crazydog

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Chip, doesn't just happen in high school. I was in college and was answering a professor's question, and I began my answer with a phrase the way I thought I had always heard it. As soon as I said, "well, for all intensive purposes, I feel..." she slammed her book down, bugged her eyes out and screamed "THE PHRASE IS 'FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES'" I felt like an idiot and didn't continue with my answer, someone else jumped in. She hated me from that day on and I got a C+!

Chiparock

Wednesday, September 18, 2002 - 07:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I hope you don't think I'm monopolizing this thread, but I thought you'd all enjoy a very public, very frequent mispronunciation by a spokesperson for former VP Al Gore, a woman named [something or other] Brazil, who kept talking about "pacific" programs, ideas, etc. She of course meant "specific." A local talk show host ran a couple of tapes of her misusing the word, 5 or 6 times on each tape.

She spoke well otherwise, and I was surprised that she did not seem to know of the error. I wonder if Gore ever actually listened to her??!!