― 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
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 29 June 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 29 June 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 29 June 2003 15:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
i gather it's probably the former, but i like the latter better
(sits in corner)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 29 June 2003 18:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Sunday, 29 June 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 29 June 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 30 June 2003 00:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 30 June 2003 00:35 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 30 June 2003 11:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:22 (twenty years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Bnad, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link
OK, she's Canadian, so she pronounces it Moohn-tin, but its her name, she can pronounce it how she likes.
― HRH Queen Kate (kate), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 19:07 (twenty years ago) link
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 19:08 (twenty years ago) link
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 19:19 (twenty years ago) link
"FYE-ERRR" that is how that is pronounced, everyone I know says it like that. However I do not understand this "t" dropping nonsense, I can't even figure out how that would work, if I try to say it like that I cannot.
My sister is like physically incapable of pronouncing the letter g if it is anywhere in a word besides the very start, which is odd.
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 21:29 (twenty 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