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GAMZu

Wed, Dec 19 2007, 8:25 pm

shanie5 wrote:

is the second day of the week pronounced tews-day or tyues-day?

It's pronounced Mon-day!

TzenaRena

Wed, Dec 19 2007, 8:32 pm

Crayon210 wrote:

I hate the word "nougat". LOL

Can't be all bad. as in kelipas nougat Tongue Out

Mrs. XYZ

Wed, Dec 19 2007, 8:33 pm

GAMZu wrote:

shanie5 wrote:

is the second day of the week pronounced tews-day or tyues-day?

It's pronounced Mon-day!

you mean MUn-day Wink

Tehilla

Wed, Dec 19 2007, 8:35 pm

or mun-dee if you're from my backwoods hometown Rolling Eyes

GAMZu

Wed, Dec 19 2007, 8:36 pm

Not if you're British!
(Or learned English in the British way the way my husband did. Then it's Mon-day.) Colors

Mimisinger

Wed, Dec 19 2007, 8:52 pm

muhn-day (as in the hamantaschen)
and toos-day as in the two of youse Smile

Laughing Bag!

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 3:00 pm

talking of pronounciation I have another problem with this as im from montreal and when I talk to the americans we can get into truble as we pronounce "alot" of words differently
to keep it simple the word talk is pronounced tawk in mtl but in ny tok short o
it gets more complicated though lol LOL

mom21n2

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 3:19 pm

My DH's family often pronounces "Lincoln" as if it had extra letters: Lynncolon

Rutabaga

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 3:46 pm

I've always had problems with these two words:

1. facade

2. niche

yikes!

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 4:20 pm

Ugh anon disabled??? This thread really neeeeeds it!

GAMZu

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 4:53 pm

1. fassad
2. nish
Smile

cookielady

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 4:56 pm

Rutabaga wrote:

I've always had problems with these two words:

1. facade

2. niche

facade was one I didnt know how to pronounce until I was about 19. I blush at the times I said facade (the way its spelled)

mimivan

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 5:01 pm

Sometimes the correct pronounciation can sound so incorrect, it is better to pronounce it incorrectly.

For instance, in college, my professor corrected people who said "To err is human" pronouncing "err" like "air" (99.9% of the time, I hear it this way)

He said, "No, to err is human" (pronouncing err like grrrr! without the "g")

So I said to someone I wanted to impressed "to err is human" (pronouncing it like the professor) and he looked at me like I was a moron..."To err (air) is human!"

This guy won a poetry award and I was trying to join his seminar. So I guess my using the "correct pronounciation" really wasn't worth it if 99.9% of the population haven't heard of the "correct" pronounciation.

And this Professor "corrected" a Pulitzer prize wining author on how to pronounce "Pulitzer" (It's Poohlitzer...not Pyulitzer!" Well, after the lunch, the author went back to saying "Pyulitzer" like everyone else...(and he used the name of the award in connection with his name at every opportunity!) Rolling Eyes

yo'ma

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 5:22 pm

mimivan wrote:

For instance, in college, my professor corrected people who said "To err is human" pronouncing "err" like "air" (99.9% of the time, I hear it this way)

He said, "No, to err is human" (pronouncing err like grrrr! without the "g")

So I said to someone I wanted to impressed "to err is human" (pronouncing it like the professor) and he looked at me like I was a moron..."To err (air) is human!"

I never heard it pronounce as air, only how it's spelled.

mumoo

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 6:29 pm

yy wrote:

Oh, and about chray/tray -- I can't say TRAY. It always comes out chray. Also chree. (You know, those things that grow from the ground, with a chrunk and leaves?)

dd wrote a story in 1st grade about going on a "feilld chrip"

(it's supposed to be field trip, I guess she spelled like she talked)

Lady Godiva

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 6:33 pm

amother wrote:

in public I will never say the last name 'Pinnis' for fear of accidentally mispronouncing it. freudian slip, ya know? I feel so bad for people with that last name. dh and I were talking about it- we'd probably change our name!! jk

I've never ever heard that name.
Sorry anybody with that name.

Beauty and the Beast

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 7:57 pm

I always had an issue with the word foyer.

yikes!

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 8:31 pm

rodeo (horses) and Rodeo Drive two diff pronounciations, right?

morahaviva

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 9:46 pm

Sometimes I dont know how to pronounce a word but know how to spell it - so I apologize and say that I have only a 9th grade US education, but I read a lot, and spell the word to ppl! embarrassed

leomom

Tue, Jul 08 2008, 9:53 pm

GAMZu wrote:

1. fassad
2. nish
Smile

Hm.... I'd say:

1. fuh-SAHD

2. nitch (double-checked an online audio dictionary before posting, just in case... and I'm right Tongue Out

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