spanakopita
figure that out.
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 21:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
σπανακοριτα
― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
with the stress on span and kop - how else?
― N. (nickdastoor), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
sand-widges or sand-witches orsand-ha-witches ? Eeeeeasy: "sang-witches"
bury: rhymes with "worry" or sounds like "berry"?roof: rewf or ruf?
my favorite: footballers play DEE-fense. Do brits ever say DEE-fense?
Why do some midwesterners say EYE-talian? I doubt they say EYE-tal-y. They likely do say EYE-ran and EYE-raq.
Congratulate me I'm the Andy f'ing Rooney of ILX.
― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 22:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 22:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chip Morningstar (bob), Wednesday, 4 June 2003 22:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
"rhymes with 'worry'" is only plausible if you pronounce "worry" so it rhymes with "furry" rather than "lorry".
But when I say "bury" it sounds like "berry". I grew up in the American Midwest and I don't think my accent was affected much by eleven years, college through grad school, spent in New York, or by seven years, through the present, living in Northern California.
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 5 June 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Thursday, 5 June 2003 00:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
I want to point out that I'm amused that you chose "ph" rather than "f" to represent that sound.
― Chris P (Chris P), Thursday, 5 June 2003 04:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Leee (Leee), Thursday, 5 June 2003 05:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 5 June 2003 05:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 June 2003 06:34 (twenty-one years ago) link
This sentence is wrong in more ways that I can count.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 June 2003 07:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
Though down the country, furry rhymes with worry rhymes with lorry.
So what do you rhyme furry with, Sam?
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Similarly: glass, grass, bath?
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
I should have pointed out that down the country furry and worry stay mostly the same, but lorry becomes lurry.
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
However, I don't extend this to places overseas - I don't call Paris "Pa-ree".
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 June 2003 08:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
When I lived in Manchester, I asked for clarification of the pronunciation of Bury. People from Bury say Buh-ry rather than Berry, but the consensus was that this was considered ridiculous to everyone else and not to be followed.
Shrewsbury = Shrewsbury to the working class and Shrovesbury to poshos, whether or not one is local.
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:17 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― robster (robster), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 5 June 2003 09:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:05 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sam (chirombo), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
Pronunciation of 'scone' is for me determined by the 'what's the fastest cake in the world?' joke... geddit?
― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
I was originally brought up to say "scoan" but then at school everyone said this was really posh and people who didn't go foxhunting should say "scon". However, since my mother comes from a lower class background than any of the people who told me that, maybe it IS the other way round. I never much liked scones anyway so I haven't needed to say it for years.
I thought I agreed on the rule about pronouncing placenames as the locals would but on reflection this only extends as far as halfarsed attempts not to lengthen the vowel in Glasgow or Newcastle (or I guess Castleford or wherever).
My dictionary's pronunciation guide tells me not to schwa-ify the last syllable of "inchoate", but that sounds so precise and laboured. Is it right?
― Frazer, Thursday, 5 June 2003 10:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 June 2003 12:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 5 June 2003 12:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 5 June 2003 12:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Thursday, 5 June 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
(Half of the "I pronounce [X] like [Y] posts" just leave me wondering, "But how do you pronounce [Y]?")
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 5 June 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago) link
"I pronounce [X] like [Y]" posts
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Thursday, 5 June 2003 16:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dan (dan), Thursday, 5 June 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 5 June 2003 18:13 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 29 June 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 June 2003 14:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
TS Khans vs. Yakshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGO-SldLrNA
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 12:48 (three years ago) link
just call it brandy
― mahb, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 12:51 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTqTE7aNjZQ
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 13:32 (three years ago) link
In Japanese cognac and konjac are not only homophones but share identical katakana which makes menu misreading interesting sometimes.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 15:31 (three years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/86/Conrack1974.jpg
― nickn, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 16:39 (three years ago) link
Ha!
― The Ballad of Mel Cooley (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
― mahb, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 5:51 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i once asked for a pint of guinness and a cognac in a glasgow pub and the bartender said "you can have a pint of guinness and a brandy
― himpathy with the devil (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link
If it's not an appellation d'origine contrôlée, sure.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 16 March 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
Just heard a shitty, soppy old '50s song where the singer pronounced 'fingers' as if the break between the syllables came after the 'g'. 'FING-ers'. I pretty much barfed all over myself when that happened.
― Clem McFlannery's Clam Phlegm Cannery (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 23 March 2021 18:47 (three years ago) link
Is .wav wave or wav?
― .xlsm (P. Flick), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
I have never thought of it as wav.
― jimbeaux, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 20:50 (two years ago) link
I think i know it's wave, but the pronunciation of a schoolmate from 20 odd years ago (southwest UK) has left me unable to move forward. I don't think this is like gif/jif where there was debate - and settlement? it's gif, right? - but curious if this is regional or just me and that one dude
― .xlsm (P. Flick), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 21:00 (two years ago) link
i've never heard anything other than a "wave" file. gif vs jif is a fight where if you care you lose
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 21:13 (two years ago) link
Didn't the inventor of the GIF format publicly announce it's jif?
― nickn, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 21:17 (two years ago) link
jif is the correct pronunciation of GIF, which is the acronym for Giraffe Information File.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
Giraffe Interchange Format, surely.
― nickn, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 21:26 (two years ago) link
Who interchanges giraffes?!
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 January 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
yes. then many years passed, and a lot of people who were born after the format were invented pronounced it in a different way. at this point, many people began losing by fighting about which way was best
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
I would say 'wav', fwiw.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 21:32 (two years ago) link
i always used to say wav. I think I knew it was probably "wave" but I read things phonetically
― kinder, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
Waveform Audio File Format (WAVE, or WAV due to its filename extension; pronounced "wave"[8])
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 19 January 2022 23:06 (two years ago) link
waff, or gtfo
― Vinnie, Thursday, 20 January 2022 07:22 (two years ago) link
like "suave"? Have never heard anyone ever say that.
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:57 (two years ago) link
i say it, but only as i use their products every morning.
*looks in peepcam*
"suave"
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 23 January 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
In the UK at least, Wav, like suave, never heard it called a 'Wave' file by anyone that has to actually deal with them in almost 30 years in audio.
― Maresn3st, Monday, 24 January 2022 00:05 (two years ago) link
What is it called? A wavv? New to me but seems good
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 January 2022 00:10 (two years ago) link
Yeah, like 'have' with a w
― Maresn3st, Monday, 24 January 2022 00:15 (two years ago) link
my problem is i'm thinking of sin waves and triangle and square waves
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 January 2022 00:18 (two years ago) link
just basic building block components of sound. i know that's different than the filetype and all of that. i just associate them that way, may be alone in that
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 January 2022 00:19 (two years ago) link
Regex
Hard or soft g?
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Monday, 22 July 2024 18:37 (one month ago) link
sgoth niseach while you're at it
― ionjusit (P. Flick), Monday, 22 July 2024 18:44 (one month ago) link
always heard/decided it was soft g but that might be because it feels easier to say
― brimstead, Monday, 22 July 2024 20:06 (one month ago) link