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Fanny

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Nim, when I was in college during Desert Storm, I took a class entitled "Middle East Conflicts: Persian Gulf". My professor was Iranian. He pronounced them E-rahn and E-rock.

Kaili

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Someone once pointed out that I say "orn juice" rather than orange juice, but when I just say orange I say it right. I blame it on my mom- she does the same thing and we drank a LOT of orn-juice while I was growing up :)

I've said it right ever since.

Nimtu

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:21 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks Fanny, thought it was the same pronounciation for Iraq as Iran...everybody has looked at me strange for 20 something years for pronouncing them that way :)

Fanny

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:24 am EditMoveDeleteIP
:)

Kmjm

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It always bugs me extremely when people pronouce exit and exaggerate as egg-sit and eggs-aggerate. Thanks for giving me the chance to vent about that.

Kmjm

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Not to mention eggs-ample.

Kristylovesbb

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
My pet peeve is the word salmon, hardly anyone from the south, I live in North Carolina, pronounces it correctly and it drives me nuts. Everyone says sal-mon.

Dahli

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:30 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I have had the pleasure of meeting many fellow Bahai's who are from Iran and they definitely pronounce it 'EErdon, ' with a little bit of a rolled R effect and a cross between an 'a' and an 'o' sound for the last syllable.... hope that makes sense.

Car54

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think we need a pronouncing and grammar thread!

Kaili

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
So is the thing over your head your roof or your ruff? Do you have your groceries placed in a bag, a bay-g, or a sack? :)

Conejo

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
According to encarta dictionary, Iraq is pronounced either "i Rak" (little I accent on A) or "i Raak" (little I accent on first A). When you listen to the pronunciation it sounds like "Ih Rack".

Conejo

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:41 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Kaili, I have a "Roof" over my head and I carry my groceries in a "bag"! But when I lived in Tennessee I carried my groceries in a "Bay-g" LOL

Kristylovesbb

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

This is Merriam-Webster OnLine, it has audio and pronounces both Iraq and Iran, Eraq and Eran.

Kaili

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
See, I have a roof too, and my groceries are in a bay-g...but when I was in Arizona they were in a sack (at least according to the people who grew up there!

Funny Arozona story- we were making pesto and I wanted some pine nuts. I called all over asking stores if they had them. I finally got ahold of this place about 10 miles away and they said yes they did carry them. So I was on a mission- yes, I really wanted the pine nuts- I love them! I drove all the way out, asked the clerk where the pine nuts were kept and she led me to the peanuts! I was so sad! I would think that with the numerous ponderosa pines all over there would be real pine nuts somewhere! So, I ended up having pesto minus the nuts.

Kaili

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I always have said I-ran and I-rack.

Twiggyish

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 07:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
In Florida we say Floorida and Ooorrange instead of arrrrrange and Flarrrida..LOL

In my family we call Aunts (pronounced Ants), in other families we hear Awwwnts.

Sia

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 07:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Let's just divert the discussion to pronunciation/grammar whenever a thread gets too heated and some post-ers (I spell it that way because a "poster" is a big paper advertisement--and that's ad-VER-tiz-munt--on the wall) start to get hot under the collar, okay?

Sisalou

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 08:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
{For some reason I feel the need to share tonight so feel free to ignore me!)

When I was in the 6th grade we moved from Texas to Delaware for 3 months. I was asking my new friends at school about St. Patricks day. I asked " Whats the name of that day where if you don't wear green you get "peenched"? They were like "WHAT"." They honestly had no clue what I was trying to say.

I guess you had to be there but it was really funny! :)

Kady

Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 09:20 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I say the days of the week like Monday(long a sound). My hubby say Monday(with a long e sound). It drives me bonkers. He tells me that I say it wrong because we are in the south and all southerners say it his way. :)

Phatcat

Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 03:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
corter (for quarter), Feberary, reelatur, jewlary...ROFLMAO This is fun.

Rig

Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 03:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There is an ad on the radio locally for a realty company, and the guy says reelatur. And unless he is an actor, he is a realtor!

Donut

Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 09:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
hey Car, I would love to take you with us!, err ahh, but i bettah call you Cah FittyFohwah if i am going to be let back into my thread, since it turned into a misprounounciation center....
btw, y'all, there used to be a pronounciation thread and if i remember it was a really active thread..