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Wink

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 03:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm not from the UK but here in my corner of Canada we've always pronounced it EVE-lyn.

Costacat

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 04:40 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
How about: extraordinary.

Do you say "extra ordinary"?
Or do you say "ex-tror-din-ary"?

Jan

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 05:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ex tror din ary for me costa

Sia

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 07:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
It annoys me to hear someone pronounce "extraordinary" ex-traw-din-ree.

Fanny

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 07:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've said ex tror din ary since I was in the 4th grade, when I corrected my teacher's pronounciation of extra-ordinary, lol. We looked it up in the dictionary right then & there and we were both right. Which was probably good or I may have had to stay in 4th grade another year!

Rissa

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is a hoot. LOL I weigh in on the thee-ater (long A) side as well, but I live in Calgree and used to live in Tron-toe so what do I know? LOL

ex-tror-din-ary
N-vel-ope
Q-pon
definately Vawz
foy-yeh

I used to just say CAN-a-da but lately it keeps coming out K'na-da because of those dang public service commercials. RFLOL

The Evelyn one surprises me, I know there are accent changes but have never heard it with a long E. I say Ev-ell-lynn.

Jhonise

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 09:12 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey Rissa, I can relate to 'Tron-toe' or even 'Toronno', rarely do I hear locals say 'Toe-ron-toe'

Yankee_In_Ca

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 09:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ex tror din ary

and since I moved to Canada, my pronunciation has been CAN-a-da -- & everyone "back home" tells me how "Canadian" my accent has become. I guess I used to say it "Can-A-da"

Sia

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 10:02 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Katherine Hepburn has always been my favorite actress, but she always spoke in a sort of stilted way with "fancy" pronunciation and she always said "ex-traw-din-ree." Does anyone else think that's how Kate Hepburn said it? What sort of accent would you call hers?

As I say, I LOVE her, wish she'd lived forever and that she'd made 1,000 films!

Tishala

Friday, August 08, 2003 - 10:23 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ms Hepburn had an upper class mid Atlantic accent that has virtually disappeared--people who were well-educated and wealthy used to have it and I love it! LOL.

If you hear Grace Kelly in films, she pretends to have it, too, but you notice that she loses it at important moments. For example, she loses her /r/ sounds when she should keep it in some words and keeps the /r/ when she should lose it. It's just a problem with rhotic sounds, but it makes you realize that she was just a working class girl from Philadephia, even though she took diction lessons and married a Prince.

Jan

Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 02:39 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
rissa and jhonise..I relate to Tron-toe' and 'Toronno'. I used to live in trontoe.

I hear now the "hip" thing to call it is T dot (We used to call it "T O" which was short for "T.O." which again was short for "toronto, ontario"...and thus was born "T dot"..ie "T.")

Rissa

Saturday, August 09, 2003 - 03:34 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Yup Jan, although we said G.T.O. most of the time LOL Sorta related to P.E.I.... as if saying Prince Edward Island would just be wayyy too much work. LOLOL Guess it depends on who you are talking to, telling someone from Rhode Island that you live in GTO would just get you a blank stare. :)

Bonnyswan

Sunday, August 10, 2003 - 05:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Back to the extraordinary thing...the first time I heard it said extra ordinary I was an adult and was wicked confused by what they meant. Extra Ordinary to me sounded like they were saying something was VERY ordinary.(not just ordinary..but EXTRA ordinary) Out of context I was able to figure it out before I made a goof of myself (thank goodness)...and now I hear it all the time...:)
I have another...wash=warsh...does anyone know where that comes from?

Jan

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 05:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Many times, on decorating shows from the US, I hear the colour mauve pronounced as "maw ve" ( to rhyme with paw...you know like ma and pa kettle)

I have always pronounced it "mow ve" (like mow the lawn)


how do you say it??

Sunrvrose

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 02:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
In california we say maw-ve. Regarding warsh for wash, it's kinda a country/southern/missouri thing. my whole family says warsh, and so do I and feel so silly doing it.

Whoami

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 02:49 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Our whole family says warsh too. We figured it came from my grandmother, who grew up in Oklahoma.

Twiggyish

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 03:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I say mawve and warsh..LOL Like warsh the car.
Extra ordinary for me.

Costacat

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 03:33 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I say "mawve" and "wash." But then again, I'm Californian and don't have an accent! <wink>

Do y'all suppose I say CAN-a-da correctly cause my dad is from CAN-a-da? I mean, he moved here a couple of years before he met and married my mom, but I could still be a Canadian if I wanted!

Here's another one for you... endive and basil.

Do you say "en-dive" or "on-deeve"?

Do you say "bazz-il" or "base-el"?

Tishala

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 03:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
on-deeve and base-el. The idea of saying en-dive makes me wanna pull my hair out! Make it stop!

Sasman

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 10:08 am EditMoveDeleteIP
when i lived in brooklyn, we had a neighbor who could not pronounce her own daughter's name correctly - ericer for erica. made us laugh everytime she called her.

Jan

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 11:56 am EditMoveDeleteIP
please tell me that I am not the only one who says mow-ve!! (mauve) Have I been saying it wrong all these years or is it regional??

Costacat

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 01:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jan, I'm pretty sure you are NOT the only one who says mow-ve. Just not here! <smooch>

Sunrvrose

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 04:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Jan, I believe the mow-ve is an English (as in England) pronouncement. (I don't freaking know how to spell pronounciation..well maybe I do)

And there's another one for ya...pro-nown-cee-ation or pro-nun-cee-ation

Jan

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 04:22 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
thanks Costacat.

Ahhh that would explain it, Sunrvrose, as here in CAN-a-da we pro-nown-ce & spell most things the English way (or the French way, if it is French word like Foy-yea). Thanks for clearing up that pro-nun-cee-ation for me. :)

Twiggyish

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 04:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
pro-nun-cee-ation. Can-a-da. En-dive. Base-il.