And, as Anna keeps taking the piss out of me for, EYE-ron vs Arn?
― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
do you pronounce "roof" to rhyme with "woof" (like a dog does) or "proof"?
and "stove" to rhyme with "shove" or "grove"?
it's RAY-diator!
and EYE-uhn!
― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Iron hath only one syllable. It's pronounced somewhere between Ahrn and AIrn. You know, kinda like Irn Bru.
― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:27 (eighteen years ago) link
Everybody else says ROOTER and DAYTA.
One of our customers has the word Data in their name and they pronounce it correctly when they call, or when they answer the phone and we speak to them daily.
He even pronounces their name wrong. GAHHHH.
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
data: dah (to rhyme with cat) tuh router: Rau ter (with an "are" not an "ah" at the end)mirror: mirrorschedule: skedulezebra: zee-braroof: to rhyme with proofstove: to rhyme with groveagrandizing: a GRAND ize ingradiator: ray dee ate oriron: eye urncontroversy: CON tro ver sy (not con TRO ver sy)tomato: toe may toepotato: poe tay toe(n)either: I interchange ee ther and eye ther and nee ther and neye ther at whim.
I've been teaching English in Spain, and our books are published by Oxford, so the language is all very English rather than American.
Just as a side note: A rubber may be something to erase pencil in the UK, but if you ask for a rubber in the US, you will get a condom. Our text books have the kids asking each other, "Can I have a rubber, please?" My first day in class I had to keep myself from laughing my head off, because it seemed so absurd.
― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 13:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 13:55 (eighteen years ago) link
The Pronunciation Thread
― RJG (RJG), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― filled the fjords of my brain (kate), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
? !??!???
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Schedule is 'skedyool' cos that's what the H is for. Like scheme is 'skeem' not 'sheem'...
― beanz (beanz), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
argh... It is difficult to describe the difference in pronouncing things in text.
― Allida Warn, Friday, 20 January 2006 15:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
It does if you're from Belfast
― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 20 January 2006 15:07 (eighteen years ago) link
wtf are you talking about? cat to rhyme with caught ? mentalism!
― emsk ( emsk), Friday, 20 January 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link