I think the Ne-vahhh-da/Ne-vad-uh divide is regional. I knew no one who said it like the latter until I lived out west.
I used to live in Colorado and IME most people pronounced it with the -ahhh sound. I lived in Boulder, though, which is all transplanted Californians and east coasters anyway so grain of salt. Sahhhhhlt.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 14 November 2013 14:31 (ten years ago) link
It makes me a little IA that the "correct" pronunciation of Spanish-named states is the non-Spanish pronunciation
I don't know if I could live in a nation of Peggy Hills talking about seeing the skies in Nuevo Meh Hee Ko.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Shocking myself every time I hang my coat up at work.
― Jeff, Thursday, 14 November 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
The Spanish pronunciation of Nevada and Colorado isn't the same as either American pronunciation.
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:14 (ten years ago) link
Anyway I think we can all agree that people who say O-re-gone are disgusting savages. Much worse than people who pronounce the "s" in Illinois.
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
I suppose this one is rational, but is it bad when your dad forgets your birthday, but does manage to call/text you twice to ask for money during said day?
(w/e, it's not going to ruin my day, he's grown more and more disappointing as he's gotten older, and I'm sure in two hours the apologies will start flooding in which he'll somehow turn into his own self-deprecation).
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:31 (ten years ago) link
maybe one for rationally angry thread
― frogbs, Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:34 (ten years ago) link
Broke my fp button on mookie, currently awaiting repair guy
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
I got all my pronounciations from Perry Como's "Delaware"
― Mark G, Thursday, 14 November 2013 15:43 (ten years ago) link
Much worse than people who pronounce the "s" in Illinois.
who in the hell does this.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
People from rural parts of NC, definitely.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
Sufjan
― Jeff, Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
Sufjan Stevens.
XP!!!!!
― carl agatha, Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:06 (ten years ago) link
That's like pronouncing it Lake Mitchagain.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
We states with silent s's on the end gotta stick together.
I know an elderly person who pronounces "Chicago" as "Chicargo." I find that charming, though.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
I hear a few people do it, but these are the same people who pronounce 'aluminum' as "al-yoo-minn-ee-um"
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
one of the old NBA broadcasters (can't remember who) used to say it "Chi-coe-go"
also love how Mark Jackson says 'point guard' like it's "point GOD"
I can't pronounce aluminum either. Just spelled it right on the first try though, yay me.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
the weirdest mispronunciation I ever heard was during PMLP training certification course. One of the lead facilitators kept saying the word "characteristics" as 'char-iss-tiks', leaving half of the word out.
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Andrew Jackson apparently used to pronounce development devil opp mint.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:09 (ten years ago) link
ppl mispronounce georgia alot
― balls, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
Joe-JUH
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
we had a new girl in fifth grade and her first day she pronounced arkansas 'r kansas' and the entire class including the teacher burst out in laughter for like five minutes
― balls, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
I was watching something recently and a bunch of characters supposedly from Oregon were all saying Ore-a-gone and I kind of had an aneurysm. Same when I hear Spo-cane which is just egregiously wrong but not an entire state. Idahoans also say "boyce-ee" instead of "boy-zee" but that's a bit more subtle.
― joygoat, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
Rightfully so, too. I mean, how in the world could somebody make that mistake?
But Georgia? What?
I mean, look. there are ways to pronounce a name, but then there are regional inflections that come to play. Someone calling New Orleans Nawlins doesn't qualify here. Someone calling it New Ore Leeeeens does.
So joejuh, that's somone's accent hitting the word. are there people out there calling it jor-GEE-uh or something?
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:48 (ten years ago) link
kids in school used to pronounce Korea "KORR-ee-uh".
― Lesbian has fucking riffs for days (Neanderthal), Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo doo
― balls, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
are there people out there calling it jor-GEE-uh or something?
― pplains, Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yes. Alison Krauss. Had no idea what the fuck she was singing on "Oh, Atlanta." "On my way back to...judge a Jew?"
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
leo frank joke in there somewhere
― balls, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
In non-pronunciation IA developments, I noticed an adult man in the gym locker room the other day who went to the effort of bringing his clothing into one of the shower stalls to get dressed. He didn't turn the shower on, just hid out there while changing.
For some reason this made me angry, or maybe just sad - how can it be so hard to just suck it up and change your clothes where a bunch of other fat / hairy / otherwise imperfect and misshapen men are also occasionally briefly naked and nobody gives a shit?
― joygoat, Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
Maybe he's trans.
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 November 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Maybe he isn't circumcised.
― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Maybe he's trans.― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, November 14, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, November 14, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― c21m50nh3x460n, Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Possible, I guess. I've seen this happen to varying degrees a couple of times with different people and would be shocked if they were all trans.
― joygoat, Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
maybe they're trans fat.
― pplains, Thursday, 14 November 2013 18:24 (ten years ago) link
I'm sort of surprised when young fit (pretty certainly cissexual) men shower in their workout shorts at the gym. I'm not big on group nudity, but for me, the awkward modesty would be more embarrassing.
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 19:46 (ten years ago) link
I just want to say that for me, "Appalachian" has always been and will always be "apple-atch-uh" despite that being non-standard pronunciation. It's a little jarring when I "apple-aich-a."
― disgruntled punter (Je55e), Thursday, 14 November 2013 19:49 (ten years ago) link
Contrast: lady at my gym who was buck naked in the middle of the locker room blow drying her hair and showing off a vulva so thoroughly waxed I could clearly see her labia.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 14 November 2013 20:18 (ten years ago) link
I mean work that labia, girl, I don't want to hate but I would have preferred she don a towel.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 14 November 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
see you labia
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 14 November 2013 22:48 (ten years ago) link
lol at all the bemusement at these words being pronounced they way they're spelt
― golfdinger (darraghmac), Friday, 15 November 2013 02:47 (ten years ago) link
Elf on a Shelf. Fucking Elf on a Shelf makes me so irrationally angry. There are two people on my Facebook feed currently going back and forth sharing "staging" tricks for this year's Elf on a Shelf. This is fucking ridiculous and literally the worst forced marketing tradition ever.
― JACK SQUAT about these Charlie Nobodies (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 November 2013 04:51 (ten years ago) link
You were gold on this thread: Bah Humbug
― pplains, Friday, 15 November 2013 06:28 (ten years ago) link
Elf on the Shelf is some creepy bullshit.
― carl agatha, Friday, 15 November 2013 14:48 (ten years ago) link
It gets worse.
http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/videothumbs/2013/10/30/da/02/0ea15858-41a1-11e3-bfcc-0019b9b9e241.jpg
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Friday, 15 November 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
wow
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 15 November 2013 14:54 (ten years ago) link
Is that a hand that looks like an aeriel view of a helmet?
― Stevolende, Friday, 15 November 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
haha.
― pplains, Friday, 15 November 2013 15:20 (ten years ago) link