Fanny | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:13 am     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     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     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     |
Kmjm | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:26 am     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     Not to mention eggs-ample. |
Kristylovesbb | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:28 am     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     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     I think we need a pronouncing and grammar thread! |
Kaili | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 11:35 am     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     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     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     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     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     I always have said I-ran and I-rack. |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, March 18, 2003 - 07:00 pm     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     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     {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     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     corter (for quarter), Feberary, reelatur, jewlary...ROFLMAO This is fun. |
Rig | Wednesday, March 19, 2003 - 03:47 pm     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     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.. |