― 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 years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 29 June 2003 14:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 29 June 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Sunday, 29 June 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 29 June 2003 15:33 (twenty 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 years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Sunday, 29 June 2003 20:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark C (Mark C), Sunday, 29 June 2003 20:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Poppy (poppy), Monday, 30 June 2003 00:19 (twenty years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 30 June 2003 00:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 30 June 2003 11:33 (twenty 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
― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
(in Texas "fire" is pronounced "far," obv)
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:14 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:16 (twenty years ago) link
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Allyzay, Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link
i love the collegian bicoastal accent (er i wrote 'college girl' there which may be poor on my part, but i associate it with a) a girl in my program, b) a girl i uh met in d.c. and c) kathleen hanna) where the vowels are overrounded and at the front of the mouth, sort of valley girl (again with the girl thing, sorry!) but not really. conv. btw aforementioned girl b. and me:b: we could hang out on my reef.g: what?b: is that okay?g: your reef?b: my REWF.g: haha oh your ROOFb: dewn't make fun of me, minneapolis
― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 22:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Daniel (dancity), Monday, 1 March 2004 18:28 (twenty 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