How Do You Pronounce Various Words?
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Tabbyking | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 05:02 pm     same as twiggy for me. |
Costacat | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 05:20 pm     By the way, I say "en-dive". I think "on-deeve" is more of a French pronunciation, and since I'm not French... <grin> |
Not1worry | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 05:45 pm     My poor husband gets really tongue-tied on certain big words. One that I still pick on him for - Thesaurus. He was writing and evaluation report and asked me for the "the rose iss". I live near Fayetteville, and the truly native folks say it so Southern that my mom thought it was "Federal" when she first moved here. Sort of like Fet-vul. On dresses that have a high waist, is that an Empire waist like rhyming with fire or an Om-peer waist? I always said the long I way and a lady at a formal wear store gave me such a look of pity. |
Nonconformist | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 10:57 am     I am from Ore-a-gun and have moved to Georgia. Here they say Ore-a gone for Oregon. They also say sal-mun instead of sam-un for salmon. Both drive me nuts. I have a friend from Pennsylvania, who says u-men instead of hu-men for human. She also says uge instead of huge. I say alts-heimers, not alz-heimers, the dictionary that I checked agreed with me. So many people try to correct me on that one. Another thing I have noticed about some people in Georgia is they pronounce the l in walk, and they emphasize the g in the ing ending to words like going or wrong. |
Cathie | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 11:26 am     My secretary pronounces Pennsylvania as Penn-sa-vania. It is the name of one of the nearest cross streets to get to our building and every time I hear her giving directions on the phone I cringe. She also offers to hep instead of help. She grew up forty miles from where I did, but in a rural area. |
Not1worry | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 05:17 pm     Cathie, does she "axe" questions? That one drives me nuts. |
Tabbyking | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 05:49 pm     i worked in oral surgery with a gal who gave the post-op instructions. i swore i heard her say 'tye-nol' one day, so i listened up and she was telling all the patients they could take tyenol or the doctor might prescribe tyenol #3. how could a nurse not know tye-le-nol? i wanted to strangle her! you could tell by the persons getting the instructions from her, they were confused, too. i wonder how many went to the drug store saying the oral surgeon's office instructed them 'to take tye-nol'? we took care of a kid for our neighbors (the cat killers) several years ago. first off, let me say it was strange to have people we barely knew ask us to take their child for 5 days while they went to a gun show in vegas and they never called once... anyway, the boy was 13 and he said 'axe' for ask, and he said, 'bisketti' for spaghetti and my husband almost choked to death. the poor kid just murdered the king's english. he seriously used the word "ain't" every other sentence. shudder. one i am undecided about is comparable. i have always said 'com-per-uhble', although i sometimes hear 'com-pare-uhble'... doesn't bother me to hear it either way, but i wonder if people think i'm a ditz for saying 'comper..' rather than 'compare...'? and okay, new yohkers: what's with fixing the raddy-ator, but not fixing the raydio? and if apricot wanted to have a soft 'a', wouldn't it be spelled appricot? i say apron, ape, apricot, with the long A...but many people say appricot. i do say salmon with the 'a' as in 'sad', and a silent "L", but i say ahlmond, for almond while others say it with the 'a' pronounced as it is in 'sad'. |
Tishala | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 06:58 pm     OMG tabby you just reminded me....one day I was watching a rerun of Julia Child and she was preparing something--maybe a compote or something--and she kept saying "a-PRICK-it" and I wondered what the heck she was talking about. Well, after five minutes, i figured out it was apricot, but who would have known? That, to me, is not even a normal alternative pronunciation. For the record, I say apricot with a soft a. |
Cathie | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 09:13 pm     Sounds like Julia had been hitting the wine that day, lol. I wouldn't have known what she was talking about either! Not1, no, thank goodness she doesn't say "axe" for ask--that one drives me crazy, too! |
Tabbyking | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 11:08 pm     tish, that is sooo funny, and yep, i agree, she was most likely hitting the wine! she and the galloping gourmet--graham kerr, was that his name? "a little splash of white wine...oh hell, half a bottle of wine...crap, what is happened ta d'udder hef've zee boddle?? |
Whoami | Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 11:49 pm     LOL, your Julia Child story reminded me of a show I saw (this is slightly OT, but bear with me). It was on "The Joy Of Painting" with Bob Ross. These shows were a while back I believe. Since I remember Bob Ross died a while ago. Anyway, he had a guest painter/instructor on, and she was an older lady, who seemed like she wasn't much in the loop of the current days. She had apparantly just heard a new phrase that she thought was quite good, so she decided to use it in her show, to encourage people who must be embarrased to let other people know that they painted. Over and over and over again, she encouraged viewers to "come out of the closet" and paint.  |
Sasman | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 05:08 am     how do you pronounce 'herb'? one day i was watching martha stewart and was so surprised when she added herbs (pronounced like the man's name) to her garden. I tried using her pronounciation after that and people kept correcting me. lol |
Tabbyking | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 08:19 am     i have always used it as 'erb', but recently i have heard it almost exclusively pronounced as 'herb', the man's name. amazing! i took french for 4 years and lived in quebec, so i cannot in good faith use the 'h' sound! then there are the languages where a 'g' is pronounced as an 'h'...so would a 'herbal remedy' be something for a sick rodent pet in a cage? LOL |
Midlifer | Thursday, August 21, 2003 - 11:39 am     I always say "erb", even with the shampoo, "erbal essence" How about aunt...."ant" or "ont"? |
Costacat | Saturday, August 23, 2003 - 07:44 am     I say "ant." I say herb without sounding the "H" (as in "erb"). And I think Martha Stewart is pretentious (listen to her carefully sometimes as she pronounces words; but that is my opinion!). |
Tishala | Sunday, August 24, 2003 - 11:07 am     I say "erb" too, and even though I LOVE Martha, the way she pronounces herb with an /h/ makes me nuts. And she says cap-ooooo-chino for cappucino, too, which also drives me nuts. Martha, we are Americans and we say cap-a-chino, so get over yourself. Thank You. I say ont when I wanna sound hoity toity. I more naturally say "ant". |
Mack | Monday, August 25, 2003 - 10:55 am     Once went to a Sierra Club meeting in Seattle. The guest speaker that night was a highly respected environmental scientist and the place was packed. This PhD launched into a presentation on the impact of oil well drilling in Alaska. So far so good.... However, he started to list a series of negatives on living orgasms. Now the first time he said it I kind of thought I'd misunderstood but he did it again, again and again. Pretty soon this very serious audience was in a fit of giggles. Wonder if he ever figured out the difference between an organism and an orgasm? |
Sasman | Monday, August 25, 2003 - 11:06 am     mack, that is funny. reminds me of a prof i had in grad school. his favorite word (which he used multiple times every class) was 'misled' as in 'don't be misled by those scammers' but he pronounced it as if there were a verb for the past tense of of missle - you know those thingies they shoot off from cape canaveral. to pass the time we started counting how many times he said this work. i'm bad also, used to mispronounce 'debacle' with the accent of the 1st syllable lol. |
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