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Rutabaga

Wed, Jul 09 2008, 2:21 am

yidmim wrote:

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

Yup!

There were some cute cowboys at the ROW-dee-oh.

I spent a fortune shopping on row-DAY-oh Drive.

ozi

Wed, Jul 09 2008, 6:28 am

My sister and I used to read the word "en-ki-klopedia", until our older sister told us how to pronounce encyclopedia. But that was when we were really young Smile

613

Wed, Jul 09 2008, 10:53 am

My dh made fun of me the other day when I prounounced the toilet paper as "Char-min." He said it's "Shar-min." I think he may be right, but I read it more often than I hear it.

OH and how is it possible to pronounce "idea" with an R at the end????

My boss always says "pacific" for the word specific- drives me nuts!

yo'ma

Wed, Jul 09 2008, 11:04 am

613 wrote:

My dh made fun of me the other day when I prounounced the toilet paper as "Char-min." He said it's "Shar-min." I think he may be right, but I read it more often than I hear it.

If you hear the commercials, you'd know your dh is right.

vase
jaguar
both of them really depends on where you're from

mom21n2

Wed, Jul 09 2008, 1:28 pm

You say toe may toe
I say toe mah toe

What about least? Someone was trying to tell me that he wanted to renew his apartment lease. "The least, the least," he kept saying.

What about "indicted?"

yikes!

Wed, Jul 09 2008, 2:43 pm

Porsche..

I believe it's pronounced "pohr-shuh" but lotsa ppl say "porsh".

octopus

Wed, Jul 09 2008, 3:17 pm

I mispronounced the word lapel - (rhymed it with label) a few years back in front of my father.
My dad got a huge kick out of it, and till this day tells my dh about it. embarrassed

It's correctly pronounced as lah-pel.
but how was I supposed to know that?!

octopus

Wed, Jul 09 2008, 3:18 pm

I had no idea until recently that rapport is pronounce rapore.

Lady Godiva

Wed, Jul 09 2008, 3:19 pm

yidmim wrote:

Porsche..

I believe it's pronounced "pohr-shuh" but lotsa ppl say "porsh".

Are you saying that because of the Cars movie? "Holy Porschia!" I was under the belief that it was pronounced "porsh".

mom21n2

Thu, Jul 10 2008, 10:21 am

waht about "worcestershire"

Clarissa

Thu, Jul 10 2008, 11:30 am

Lady Godiva wrote:

yidmim wrote:

Porsche..

I believe it's pronounced "pohr-shuh" but lotsa ppl say "porsh".

Are you saying that because of the Cars movie? "Holy Porschia!" I was under the belief that it was pronounced "porsh".

It's pronounced somewhere in between "porsh" and "porsh-a." It does have a second syllable, but it's kind of a mini-syllable. Like porsh-e, the the end part being kind of quick.

leomom

Thu, Jul 10 2008, 11:39 am

indicted: in-dight-ed

but an athlete is INDUCTED into the hall of fame...

red sea

Thu, Jul 10 2008, 11:43 am

mom21n2 wrote:

waht about "worcestershire"

wuster (u as in the word 'push') - sheer

Purple Hug Bunny

Fri, Jul 11 2008, 6:08 pm

MiracleMama wrote:

If anyone is interested, there is a fabulous old book called There's No Zoo In Zoology which guides the reader through the most commonly mispronounced English words. It's a great read.

But I bet it doesn't have pronounciation for names of actresses.
there are sooo many actresses whose name Id love to know how to pronounce,
like chloe sevigny. I always pronoucned it sevignee, but then on the dvd bonus features I heard it was sevinay

Crayon210

Fri, Jul 11 2008, 6:33 pm

red sea wrote:

mom21n2 wrote:

waht about "worcestershire"

wuster (u as in the word 'push') - sheer

I pronounce it wuster-shur.

Crayon210

Fri, Jul 11 2008, 6:35 pm

613 wrote:

OH and how is it possible to pronounce "idea" with an R at the end????

It's a phonological phenomenon called "r-insertion".

It has nothing to do with mispronouncing.

Purple Hug Bunny

Fri, Jul 11 2008, 7:06 pm

I've always wondered how to pronounce lchan stadium.
first of all is it an L (el) or an I (eye)?
secondly, do you say Lechan,, ch as in challos, or lechan, ch as in charm?
or is it Ichan.
actually I just decided to google Lcahn stadium and they asked me if I meant Icahn stadium, so that answers my eye and el confusion, but I still don't know how to pronounce it, Ichan, ch as in itch, or icahn as in eyecan?

My x had one word he would say very wrongly, and it drove me absolutely nuts, of course I never corrected him.
the word is a yiddish word, the english definition is try/try out. like I'll try to reach him.
the word in yiddish is probiren פראבירן. but he would pronounce it fabiren פאבירען.

there are prob. a million more words I dont know how to pronounce, some of them were asked here so now I know. but I can't think of any more at the moment..

good thread idea..

shanie5

Sun, Oct 26 2008, 12:23 am

I have friends with the last name Elefant-pronounced like the animal. But some people are afraid of insulting the Elefants by calling them elephant, that they pronounce their name Elefont.

ShakleeMom

Sun, Oct 26 2008, 11:53 am

Hors-devours

I’ve heard these pronounced ‘aw-derves’ but it sounds so strange!

daamom

Sun, Oct 26 2008, 1:05 pm

How about avatar?
And what's the real way to say Imamother? I'm a mother? Or Ima-mother?

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