Hurricun 9

[2ffat]

I've been listening to the Governor of North Carolina talk about Hurricane Irene. She insists on calling it "hurricun." To me that grates on my nerves worse than fingers on a black board. Anybody else hear some mispronounced words that give them the "willies?"


James P. Cottingham
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[SantaMufasa]

I just overheard a conversation between two colleagues in which both of them used the word: expecially !

...Fingernails on the chalkboard.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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[judgeh59]

libary
Warshington

Ouch!!!

Be Alert, America needs more lerts

 

[flyboytim]

Nucular!

Router when it does not rhyme with the computer it networks with.

 

[SantaMufasa]

My nieces and nephews say than I sound so avuncular when I say nucular. <grin>

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[hotfusion]

I won't bring to the table my personal dislike of the use of pacific instead of specific.

Actually, yes I will.
I know this isn't mispronunciation, more a case of illiteracy, but when my poor ol' mother felt the need to ask me if there was such a correct use of the word (as she had repeatedly heard it used on radio) I felt the world get a little sillier.

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[mscallisto]

The English Language

I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough.
Others may stumble, but not you, On
Hiccough, thorough, laugh and through.
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard; a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead;
For goodness sake don't call it deed.
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)

A moth is not a moth in mother; nor both in bother, broth in brother;
And here is not a match for there,nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
And then there's dose and rose and lose
(just look them up) and goose and choose,
And cork and work, and card and ward,
And font and front, and work and sword,
And do and go, and thwart and cart.
Come, come ! I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful language ? Man alive!I mastered it when I was five!
I will teach you in my verse
Words like corps, corks, horse and worse.
For this phonetic labyrinth
Yields monkey, donkey, ninth and plinth,
Wounded, rounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dies and diet, lord and word;
Earth and hearth and clerk and herd;
Evil, devil, tomb, bomb, comb;
Doll, roll; dull, bull; some and home.
Finally - for I've had enough -
Through, though, thorough, plough, cough, tough,
While hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advise is give it up.

We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes,
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a whole lot of mice,
But the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be pen?

The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.
And I speak of a foot, and you show me your feet,
But I give a boot... would a pair be beet?

If one is a tooth, and a whole set is teeth,
Why shouldn't the plural of booth be beeth?
If the singular is this, and the plural is these,
Why shouldn't the plural of kiss be kese?

Then one may be that, and three be those,
Yet the plural of hat would never be hose.
We speak of a brother, and also of brethren,
But though we say mother, we never say methren.

The masculine pronouns are he, his and him,
But imagine the feminine she, shis, and shim.
So our English, I think you will agree,
Is the trickiest language you ever did see.

 

[SantaMufasa]

Great posting mscallisto. It's a great vehicle for showing what an irregular, esoteric, and unfair language (to an English-Second-Language learner) we speak. Hava

!

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
“People may forget what you say, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

 

[strongm]

Ghoti. Pronounced "fish

 

[Annihilannic]

Brilliant... who wrote it?

Annihilannic
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[Annihilannic]

Beaufort... reminds me of a friend in the UK who lived on Beauchamp Hill. Pronounced beech-am!

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[BadBigBen]

I am very surprised, that NO one of you caught the following:

Shedule is not pronounced SKEDULE

first there is NO such word as [b[SHEDULE[/b] in any dictionary that I am aware off, and secondly the pronunciation of SCHEDULE{/b] is varied:

(Canada) IPA: /?sk?d?u?l/, /?sk?d?u?l/, /???dju?l/, /???d?u?l/
(UK) IPA: /???dju?l/, SAMPA: /SEdju:l/
(US) IPA: /?sk?.d?ul/, /?sk?.d??l/

Now, my boss (German who had lived in California) pronounces [b}angle as angel and header as heater{/b]; then there is my apprentice (whose dad is American, Mom is German) pronounces remote as remoot... and boy do they grind on my nerves...

Ben
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[SamBones]

I have a friend who is very articulate, and speaks very clearly, with the exception of one word (that I know of). He pronounces the word "drawer" as "draw". "It's in the top draw, look in there".

 

[Annihilannic]

The way I pronounce "drawer" would be indiscernible from "draw". Perhaps slightly more like "drorr". How do you say it... as two syllables?

Annihilannic
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[Turkbear]

Hi,
Saying it like draw is not unusual in the Southern U.S. but it often also sounds like drah ( like wearing a a new pair of drahs - underwear to Northern folk )





To Paraphrase:"The Help you get is proportional to the Help you give.."

 

[N1GHTEYES]

This one didn't exactly "give me the willies", but it certainly had me puzzled for a while.

Our favourite pub (to which we were very regular visitors) used to be run by a very nice chap called Toby who had a VERY posh accent (his dad is an Earl). One day my wife mentioned an interest in tegestology, so Toby wandered off into the back room and came back with a massive stack of beermats. Then he said, "Would you also like a tile?"

Huh? Tile? My wife had no clue what he meant. As she is American she assumed it was some English peculiarity of which she had so far remained unaware. However, being curious, she muttered something vaguely affirmative and Toby wandered off again. When he came back he was holding a a bar TOWEL.

After that it took us ages to stop referring to them as tiles.

Tony

 

[MeGustaXL]

Tony, you are quate rate abite thet kaned of thing! Highevah, my hice is full of tiles thenk yow!



Chris

Someday I'll know what I'm donig...damn!

 

[SamBones]

Still one syllable, I pronounce it more like "drore". Trying to give recognition to that trailing "r". That "Draw" or "Drah" just sounds odd to me.

 

[Qik3Coder]

I won't bring to the table my personal dislike of the use of pacific instead of specific.

I hadn't ever heard this used until about 10 minutes after I read this post.
I wanted to reach across the table and shake him for the entire duration of the meeting.

Lod

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[BadBigBen]

I pronounce it more like dr'oars...

but then again, it could be my faint German accent interfering there...


Ben
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[N1GHTEYES]

I pronounce it with two syllables, and I find the monosyllabic version slightly grating. However, the pronunciation I can cope with - it is when I see "a chest of draws" written down that I really want to scream and break things.

These seem to be one of the more common items of furniture to be sold on ebay or via notices in shop windows, and a substantial number of them are written as above. I don't remember seeing this at home (Lancashire) but it is many years since I lived there. Maybe things are getting worse, or perhaps Bristol just has a bigger population of morons.

Tony