How do YOU say certian words?

[Death Metal Moe]

So I'm a sittin there, as usual, thinking about useless shit, and this strange question comes into my head.

How do You say certian words that have more than one pronuncuation?

Like Miniature?

It should be said Mi-ni-a-ture with the 2 seperate parts the way it's spelled, but we say it min-a-ture a lot too.

Another dumb one is Sunoco the gas station. I say Sun-o-co but my bassist says Sun-a-co like it's a fake word. Everytime we drive by one she'll argue with me.

I can't think of too many others right now, but is are there more words like this? And how do we decide on the proper way to say them? And who's to say the dictionary is right. That's just the answer someone settled on.


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[Iamnotatool]

My mother tends to add r's where they don't belong....

Goggles become Gargles
Soda becomes Soder

Also, Seinfeld becomes Steinfeld

For me, effmeboobs becomes Fuckmeboobs....



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[PanterA]

I cant say Regularly fast. I have to slow down when I say it and I sound like a retard.

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[silera]

I always say fuschia "foosha" and vinyl "vinil.

I say these two words often for some odd reason and then Alkey laughs at me because he's a racist.


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[East Side Dave]

I guess I'm Jersey-fied when I pronounce chocolate "chawk-lit." Christopher Multisante watch out.

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[Iamnotatool]

Thats ok Silera baby, no self respecting male would correct you on fuscia, because he would be considered gay for knowing how to pronounce it.


How is vinil pronounced differently than vinyl?

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[fezident]

Not really a pronunciation thing, but my wife has never heard of "parenthesis" (like these). SHe calls them brackets. Drives me nuts. If those are brackets...then what are [these]?

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[lippy]

My mom says Massatusetts instead of Massachusetts. She's a nut that way. I used to beat up a kid named Richie because he couldnt say Knoblauch (As in Chuck). It used to come out Naw-blaaa.

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[IrishAlkey]

Thats ok Silera baby, no self respecting male would correct you on fuscia, because he would be considered gay for knowing how to pronounce it.

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[jamesdiggy]

I always pronouce Cinnamon as Synonym. Damn Catholic school!

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[Arienette]

i say the word "drawer" like "draw".. i hate it, and i've tried to teach myself to say it right, but with only moderate luck.

i also can't say "brewery" fast, and have to sound it out like a retard, as pantera described

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[TooCute]

I can't pronounce 'four'; it comes out 'foor'. I think it has to do with the gap between my front teeth.

I also like to pronounce 'certain' as 'certain' not 'certian'.

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[The Chairman]

As a kid it was always Missipie instead of Mississippi, a result of playing too much football.

Now I cannot say particularly.

OK here's one:

Try saying "Methodist Episcopalian."

If you can't, you probably have dysarthria, a difficulty in speech production due to incoordination of your speech apparatus.

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[The Chairman]

Too Cute: I think your diastema is quite sexy..

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[Contra]

o notice some people say "our" as "are". i used to do that too but not really anymore.

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[TheGameHHH]

I hate when people say "Ar-ange" instead of Orange as well as "Flarida" instead of Florida. Pronounce your O's!

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[PanterA]

I hate when people say roof - ruff and room - rum

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[IrishAlkey]

Pronounce your O's!

Silera pronounces her "O"s in Spanish.

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[fezident]

My wife is from Canada. Canadians pronounce everything just a little differently than we do in the US.

When they say "been", it sounds like "bean". In the states, it sounds like "bin".

They pronounce "Produce" (as in fresh fruit) like "Prah-duce"

Canadians also tend to make every sentence sound like a question. As if they're telling you a story that happened one time in Band-camp.



Problem is.... now I live in Toronto and they think that I'm the one who talks funnny.

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[A.J.]

"Groceries"

I say it "grow-SIR-ease"

Some people say it "grow-SURE-ease"

My question is do you buy them from a "grow-SIR" or a "grow-SURE" ?

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[stickyfingers]

My mother tends to add r's where they don't belong....


some take away the r....like i noticed some colored fellas saying nigga instead of the proper pronunciation....come on guys finish the word please



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[LilLibra]

I hate when people say roof - ruff and room - rum

Like Jonah from TE3. Gets on my nerves. I generally speak properly because I come from a family of english correction officers. By that I mean, you can't mispronounce one word without someone correcting you. However, my sister is notorious for f*cking words up. She still can't pronounce "sandwich". Why is this so difficult? She says, "samwich" like she's still four years old. I also hate when people say "acts" instead of "asks". If its embedded in their mind to say it a certain way, its really hard to teach someone to say it the right way.

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[Starling]

OK, I know this is supposed to be how I say things, but I can't think of anything I mispronounce at the moment, but I can think of something people fuck up more than they should - supposedly - why do so many people say "supposably"? And another one that's like nails on a chalboard - "aksk" instead of ask - how hard is it to pronounce a 3 letter word correctly?

[bmckenna]

down in south jersey, people say "witter" instead of water and "beggel" instead of bagel. call me old fashioned but...

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[TheGameHHH]

Silera pronounces her "O"s in Spanish.

I was thinkin if things go well between me and her, I might be showing HER my O face.

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I hate when people say "liberry" instead of "library," or "Febuary" instead of "FebRuary."

And I find it very pretentious when Americans use British spelling: "favour" instead of "favor";"honour" instead of "honor"; "theatre" instead of "theater."

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[wilee]

I have an acquaintance who pronounces "Washington" as "Woorshington"

It grates on me whenever I hear it.

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[A.J.]

And I find it very pretentious when Americans use British spelling: "favour" instead of "favor":"honour" instead of "honor": "theatre" instead of "theater."


I think it's all part of a defence programme to colour our opinion of the Brits move favorably.

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[DJEvelEd]

I be sayin stuff like "Lemme axe you sutin" and "We be brushin our teef" and towns like "New Brufus" and "Kierney". I can't seem to talk right since I tattooed my uvula...

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[furie]

for some reason, i say often as "off-ten"
people say too that i don't sound like i'm from LI

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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

I think it's all part of a defence programme to colour our opinion of the Brits move favorably.



Colour me impressed.

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[Hoojibs]

I say water as wadder.....

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[Knowledged_one]

I usually try to say my words audibly so that others can hear what i have to say also

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[The Chairman]

My wife is from Canada. Canadians pronounce everything just a little differently than we do in the US.


The true Canadian accent is best heard asking a Canuck to say "Out and About."

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[fezident]

I know..... they say "oat & a-boat". It's still funny.

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[grlNIN]

When i am reading something off of a paper and there are two "S" words in a row i have to slow down and say them both very slowly. I spent 5 years in a speech class and the only result of it is now talking like a mongoloid when two "S" words are paired together.




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[high fly]

I pronounce "certian" as "sir-shun", and "certain" as "sir-tin".
Other dopey pronunciations are: "ath-a-lete", and of course Dumbya and others who say: "nu-cu-lar",
"Merlin" for " Maryland",
"Vuh- gin-ya" for Virginia.
Down in my neck of the woods, there's "Fredricksburg" for "Fredericksburg", and let's not forget the town with the invisible 's', that would be :Thornburg, which the local rubery refer to as "Thawnsburg".
Let me get hypocritical here and give the correct pronunciations to all the hoops fans in particular:
North Carolina is properly pronounced "Norca-lahnna",
and Duke is properly pronounced "Dyuke".
Xavier University is of course pronounced "Hah-vee-yay"

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[Lulu]

I was thinkin if things go well between me and her, I might be showing HER my O face.

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[Death Metal Moe]

I say "Don and Mike" like this:

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[Iamnotatool]

Lulu...awesome

I hate Canadians adding 'eh' to everything.

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[Dewey]

Too Cute: I think your diastema is quite sexy


Get a room. Or should I say "loom", TooCute?

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[Dewey]

I say Sun-o-co but my bassist says Sun-a-co like it's a fake word. Everytime we drive by one she'll argue with me.


M, I think the best way to settle this one is to speed up to about 60 and push her out the door. That'll teach her to get all snobbish about the name of a freakin' gas station!

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[ADF]

My dad says "intendo" instead of "nintendo."

You kids are always playing that intendo.

[Heather 8]

I had a horrible speech impediment when I was a kid (due in part to being partially deaf), and to this day, I have trouble pronouncing ''th'' sounds at the ends of words if I don't concentrate on sounding it out. ''South'' is usually ''sowf,'' ''both'' is ''boaf,'' and my poor best friend throughout school had to put up with being called ''Bef.''

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[WRESTLINGFAN]

I always hear people saying I have to ax you a question.

Older people usually say mizzora instead of missouri



Kinda makes you think when the #1 rapper is white and the #1 golfer is black

[Arienette]

And I find it very pretentious when Americans use British spelling: "favour" instead of "favor":"honour" instead of "honor": "theatre" instead of "theater."i guess we know now why adf's account is all screwed up.


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[IrishAlkey]

I had a horrible speech impediment when I was a kid (due in part to being partially deaf), and to this day, I have trouble pronouncing ''th'' sounds at the ends of words if I don't concentrate on sounding it out. ''South'' is usually ''sowf,'' ''both'' is ''boaf,'' and my poor best friend throughout school had to put up with being called ''Bef.''


I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have laughed so hard at this.



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[Contra]

i noticed i say comf-table instead of comfortable

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[ADF]

i guess we know now why adf's account is all screwed up

I always thought it was internet gremlins. I don't add any extraneous "u's" to words, but I do spell it "theatre," just because it looks nice that way. I draw the line, though, at "aluminium."

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[Thebazile78]

I use the Brit-spell "theatre" because that's the way it was indoctrinated into my brain during my crash-course in theatre - history, staging and performance - offered by my high school.

Too bad most of you don't know IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). This thread would be MUCH more exacting if it were possible to both IPA your pronunciations AND enter them into pseudo-HTML. *sigh* Erudition is a high crime these days.

My personal pet peeves include my family's pronunciations of the words "basket" [bas' tik] and "drawer" [draw]; the general public's pronunciation of "Rutgers" [Ruggrz] or [Rut'gz]; Dubya's Homer-like pronunciation of "nuclear" [nukulr] and many Northern NJ natives' pronunciation of "Newark" [N'ark]. In addition, it's like nails on a chalkboard for "ask" [aks] and "February" [feburary].

Occasionally, I will let a North Jersey "aw" slip, when I am speaking too quickly or am agitated, I have heard myself say [cawfi], [chawklIt] and [tawk]. *shudder* I am also hyper-conscious of my pronunciation, due to my high school stage work and college job as a call-center representative and tour guide. I took my work seriously, so I have worked diligently to be conscious of my accent and pronunciation.

As a side note, some of you were speaking of Canadians - have you ever heard what a Canadian sounds like with a Virginia drawl? I have. It's intriguing.

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[swiss miss]

Ive always said either as "eye-thur" not "eeeee-thur", neither the same way respectfully......it makes me cringe to hear it slaughtered....YUP, im THAT girl. Another one with the big box o crayons.....and 4 vacation homes.

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[Heather 8]

I'm sorry.

I shouldn't have laughed so hard at this.


Shut your damn mowf.

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[Death Metal Moe]

YO! My thread is off da hook!

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[Lucento]

I heard that "aluminum" is really supposed to be pronounced Al-You-Mini-Yum
and Puma is suppose to be Pyou-ma, and not poo-muh, look it up in a dictionary!

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