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Today I heard a man pronounce the word "mandatory" "man-DAY-tohree".

Share some odd pronunciations you've heard!

>> No.610188

I don't understand why niggers say axe instead of ask. I can sort of understand why gooks have trouble with L and R though.

>> No.610191

I silently rage whenever someone pronounces "niche" as "nitch".

"YEAH IN COLLEGE YOU REALLY HAVE TO FIND YOUR NITCH."

>> No.610192

Orry-gar-no mispronounced O-rigger-no

>> No.610193

Got made fun of in the US when I said Pacific with an "a" as in "past".

I told them stfu you ignorant, dumb Americans can't even speak a second language at all. I sure told 'em.

>> No.610194

>>610191
Worse, Nitch is my favorite philosopher.

>> No.610200
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610200

Shhhhhedule

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE

>> No.610202

Root beer and roof. pronounced Rut beer and ruf. Fucking Midwesterners.

>> No.610203

>>610194
you mean neetska is your favorite philosopher

>> No.610206

>>610193
I never realised I pronounced it "puh-sif-ick" till now.

At least I don't confuse specific/pacific I guess.

>> No.610210

petri as pteri as in p-teri, not even like pterodactyl.
I was pretty boggled.

>> No.610211
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610211

There was a running joke on TMHT where Shedder couldn't say the word cretin properly and pronounced it "Kree-tin".

>> No.610220

"Couldn't care less" pronounced as "could care less."

I tried to explain to them that the "n't" part isn't supposed to be silent, but they just stared with dull, empty expressions on their faces.

>> No.610227

>>610203
neetchii is my favourite, he is really neat

>> No.610235

>>610227
Knew a girl who pronounced it like that. I thought it was cute.

>> No.610239

Pronouncing karaoke like Kerry Oakey. English speakers are so sad they can't even pronounce things the way they are spelled.

>> No.610242
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610242

Yankee doodles who use R in the place of T.

>> No.610246

So since this is about pronunciation

teach me phonology

>> No.610250

I love how Brits pronounce Aluminum, making it sound like something Tolkeinien.

>> No.610254

whenever americans try to pronounce Nietzsche.

>> No.610255

>>610250
2/10

>> No.610256

>>610250
It's spelled aluminium like they say it. Brits are much more literal with the English language than Americans. They also tend to literally pronounce foreign words brought into the English language. For instance, they pronounce the 't' in 'fillet'.

>> No.610258

>>610254
>[Nietzsche] was credited with being philosophically responsible for various imaginary crimes of the enemy -- the wholesale slaughter or mutilation of prisoners of war, the deliberate burning down of Red Cross hospitals, the utilization of the corpses of the slain for soap-making... On strength of the fact that I had published a book on Nietzsche in 1906, six years after his death, I was called upon by agents of the Department of Justice, elaborately outfitted with badges, to meet the charge that I was an intimate associate and agent of "The German Monster, Nietsky"

Mencken ftw.

>> No.610260

I miss when I used to read the philosophy of Cah-muhss and "Faust" by Goat-thee.

>> No.610261

>>610258
made my day

>> No.610262

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ5KT9MhpL8&NR=1

American here. What's an aluminium? 4chan's telling me this is a spelling mistake.

>> No.610264

>>610262
you seem to have misspelled the spelling error.

oh sweet irony

>> No.610281

>Pohlees that moostash!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgQf1IEmWak

>> No.610284

>>610191
britfag detected

>> No.610288

>They also tend to literally pronounce foreign words brought into the English language.

Don't you mean incorrectly?

>> No.610295

AMERICAN ENGLISH SPELLS IT ALUMINUM.

THE REST OF YOU SPELL IT ALUMINIUM.

YOU'RE BOTH RIGHT.

>> No.610307

Live with someone from Finland. Not really bizarre pronunciation but in Finland the "T-H" sound is practically non-existent. So for example "Th-atch-ed roof" is "Tatched roof", "Margaret Tatcher", and lastly "I put my coffee in a "Termos"

>> No.610330

>>610295
>implying American English isn't wrong English

>> No.610384

hey while we're at it can anyone tell me how to pronounce the name "heinlein" (robert a. heinlein)?

>> No.610400

humous "hoomoos"

>> No.610403

I say toilet tor-let :(

>> No.610404

>>610384

Traditionally in German pronunciation (from which language the 'ei' or 'ie' combinations usually originate) you'd say 'Hine line'. In German you pronounce the last letter of those combos. So 'ei' is said iiiiiiiiii and 'ie' is said eeee.

>> No.610413

>>610403
What!? you just add random letters?

>> No.610420

I always accidentally pronounce botanist as boat-anist.

Sigh.

>> No.610487

SCHOrNstein
You don't have to get that, it's German.

>> No.610509

Cavalier as ca-var-lee-argh.

>> No.610515

I pronounce "knead" as "need" and not "ned".

>> No.610517

>>610404
ah thanks alot, that's how i thought it was prnounced. i'm actually german. couldn't be sure because you guys sometimes just poronounce names your own way, for example "bach"

>> No.610556

I know a guy who pronounces iron as "eye-run". He knows it's wrong, but he likes it.

>> No.610558

>>610517

>. i'm actually german.

Oh dear, how embarassing. For me I mean.

I think people tend to pronounce Bach in varied ways? I've heard Back, Barck, Bach, Barch and Boccaccio.

>> No.610595

My mum's:
caraVAN as opposed to caravan
Onvelope instead of envelope.

...shit, there's more but I can't remember.
Also, schedule pronounced shedule is annoying.

>> No.610604

>>610256
What? As in fillet of meat? The 't' is supposed to be silent? Really?

>> No.610607

Any non-Dutch attempt to pronounce "Van Gogh".

>> No.610614

Al-bert Came-uss

>> No.610628

>>610607
I say it like "Gox", where 'x' is the IPA letter, except I really exaggerate it to an extreme just for fun
and because I know I'd get it wrong anyway

>> No.610633

>>610556
Oh, the eye-rony!

>> No.610637

>>610607

>Any non-Dutch attempt to pronounce anything that has a g in it
ftfy

also, Cruyff and Kuyt

>> No.610654

swedish fish = SWEE-DISS-FISS

>> No.610674

My mother pronounces 'Alice in Wonderland' strange, she says 'land' as it would be said in 'Finland' or 'Greenland'.

>> No.610681

>>610674

How else would you pronounce it?

>>610604

Yup. It's pronounced fil-ay.

>> No.610697

"EC-setera" instead of "et-cetera"

>> No.610699

>>610556

How is it supposed to be pronounced?

>> No.610703

>>610188
lrn2dialects, lrn2olderenglish

>> No.610712

>>610200
Um, so the thread's not supposed to be about 'odd' understood as absolutely and completely wrong, but we're going to rage about AmE/BrE differences? Let's all get along and laugh at Scots, eh?

>> No.610716

>>610681
>>WonderlAnd
With an 'a' sound, not a schwa.

And fi-lay? That sounds fucking gay.

>> No.610748

>>610239
I lol'd. I love it when Americans try to pronounce foreign names or words.

>> No.610784

I had a professor who pronounced measure and treasure as MAY-jur and TRAY-jur.
I also had a classmate who said spee-sheez instead of species.

>> No.610790

As someone for whom English is a second language, I've had the hardest times pronouncing the word trampoline.

I always said it tramPYOUline

>> No.610796
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610796

>leviathan
>lev-i-tran

>my face

>> No.610803

>>610784
I say speeshees :(

>> No.610808

>>610796
lev-i-tran?
What?

>> No.610815

I say fill-ay but val-it.

People saying exSPEARiment and EXpresso bothers me.

>> No.610839

>>610699

Everyone I know says "eye-urn". His pronunciation is more phonetic, but I've never heard anyone else use it.

>> No.610844

hyperbole

hyper-bowl

It was by my English 102 TA.

>> No.610855

>HA HA HA OTHER PEOPLE'S PARENTS AND SCHOOLTEACHERS HAVE LESS CULTURAL CAPITAL THAN MINE HA HA HA HA

>> No.610856

Poor as "pyur" - shit doesn't even make sense
I live in Texas and it's pretty common outside the major cities

>> No.610858

>>610235
THE S IS SILENT BECAUSE HE'S FOREIGN LOL

>> No.610869
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>>610716

Are you saying you pronounce it wonderlschwand?

>> No.610875

meme as "maim"

>> No.610876

guitar as geee-tar

>> No.610878

sage as in the plant pisses me off.

inb4weeaboo

>> No.610883

My grandma used to pronounce vinegar as 'vah-nigger'.

>> No.610884

Won pronounced Juan

>> No.610885

I had an English teacher pronounce "Antigone" as an-tee-GAHN.

>> No.610897
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610897

<--Had to do it. Source was too weird.

>> No.610898

a teacher that pronounced "three" as TREE.

>> No.610901

When Americans say 'o' instead of 'a'.
And when they say 'cup' and 'cop' nearly identically. I can tell the difference, but from a linguistic perspective it's odd.

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>>610897

>> No.610906
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>>610897
>>610903
It's the incarnation of Kali!

>> No.610907

>>610901
>when Americans say 'o' instead of 'a'.

What do you mean, Oh instead of Eh or Æ?

>> No.610908

>>610907
'Spose so.

>> No.610909

>>610901
You mean like pronouncing "bacon" as "bocon?"

I don't get what you mean. I don't think I've ever heard that.... IN AMERICA.

>> No.610911

>>610909
god domn it fronk

>> No.610914

>>610909
No... The only example I can think of off the top of my head is when Penn (or Teller) was talking about Esperonto.

>> No.610918

>>610914
Wait, so you mean pronouncing O as A?

I thought that was just... English. That's how you pronounce it.

>> No.610921

>>610191
I say "nitch" because I don't want to sound like a douchebag saying "neesh." Oh, and also because it's an accepted pronunciation.
>>610211
That's the way cretin is pronounced.
>>610330
The dude who discovered aluminum first called it "alumium," then changed his mind and called it "aluminum." Webster put the word in his dictionary at this point, and didn't bother to change it when the dude, under pressure from the scientific community to make his element sound more like most of the other ones, changed his mind once again and started calling it "aluminium." So people who say "aluminium" are supporting peer pressure in the scientific community.
>>610515
That's the correct pronunciation.
>>610784
Your classmate was using an accepted pronunciation.

ITT: idiots feeling superior because of their ignorance

>> No.610928

Nihilism pronounced "Nee-hee-lism".

>> No.610930

>>610928
Once again, an accepted, common pronunciation. Are all the anons in this thread homeschooled or something?

>> No.610934

>>610242
Oh man, I LOVE this in American English. Especially when people who do that (which is like 90% of Americans now) complain about how they can't "roll their Rs" like Spanish speakers!

>> No.610936

>>610930

Really? Maybe I don't hang around people who actually use the word in conversation often enough, but I've always been under the impression that it was only "Ny-hi-lism".

>> No.610937

My dad pronounces stimulus as stimalis.

>> No.610940

>>610928
That's correct. Latin doesn't use the "ai" sound for "i". You're using after-Great Vowel Shift thinking.

>> No.610941

So it it's not nitch or nitchee, how the fuck do you pronounce Nietzsche properly?

>> No.610945

>>610941
Neetchuh.

>> No.610948

>>610930
>>implying public school teaches good English

>> No.610980

>>610948
>implying public schools teach well english
herp derp

>> No.611045

For a /lit/ board, you guys sure aren't well-versed in proper pronunciation.

>> No.611075

>>611045
/lit/ is 50/50 smart/stupid. The problem is, the stupid make 3/4 of the posts.

>> No.611085

>>611045
My dialectal speech coupled with my ability in spite to write 'proper' English laughs at you.

>> No.611090

I used to say Metallurgy like meh-TAL-urr-gee

because it sounded a lot better than mehtl--urr-gee

>> No.611120

>>611085

Nice typos, bro.

>> No.611125

>>611075
75% of the 4chan userbase considers you a retard for pulling random statistics out of your ass trying to make a halfassed witticism. You failed, faggot.

>> No.611129

>>611120
What typos?

>> No.611130

>>611129
facepalm.jpg

>> No.611131

>>610901
>And when they say 'cup' and 'cop' nearly identically.

Who does this?

>> No.611137

>>611131
Yeah, that one doesn't sound familiar to me either. It must just be that British people can't distinguish the phonemes as well as Americans, because they're more differentiated in British English. I'm an American and it's never confused me.

>> No.611162

Pronouncing the "oo" in roof like the "u" in put drives me crazy.

Although I'm used to it, the intrusive "r" is still funny sometimes. For example, the slight r at the end of words like Asia or idea in British English, or saying warsh instead of wash in Southern English.

>> No.611172

>>611131
As I said, I can tell the difference but compared with most other languages/accents, the vowel difference is very small in this case particularly.
>>611162
I'm English and I have never heard the 'r' on the end of those words. I say it "I-dee-yuh" and I can't remember hearing any massive variation upon that.

>> No.611196

>>610934
>>610242
What? When?

>> No.611214

>>611172
I'm not English, but it's not something I've heard from everyone. I've only ever heard it on words ending in 'a'
Maybe it's related to rhotic vs. non-rhotic accents. I'm no expert here.

>> No.611230

>>611196
Nearly all of you fuckers say "warder" instead of "water".

>> No.611231

>>611214
Some American dialects include this feature also. It's not just a British thing.

>> No.611250

>>611162
Only the toffiest of toffs say warsh.

>> No.611265

>>611231
It's not even a British thing- it's something I can only imagine a broad Lancastrian, a farmer or some kind of retard saying.

>> No.611270

>>611250
I'm talking the Southern US here.

>> No.611286
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611286

aluminium pronounced

A-LOO-MEE-NUM

>> No.611289

>>611270
Oh. Carry on then.

>> No.611309

isn't like idn't or itten
wasn't like wadn't or wutten
okra as okree
soda as sodee

>> No.611326

>>611309

shugry sodee pap rots yer teef

>> No.611329

naggers

>> No.611485

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She had a dumb reason for it.

>> No.611738

>>611485
My dad says it like that. Supposedly it's just as correct, sounds weird to me though. I hear diabeetus is also a valid pronunciation of diabetes.

>> No.611756

>A phonemic merger in some varieties of English (especially American English) in which the vowels in words such as "hot" and "doll" and in words such as "law" and "talk" are pronounced identically, making the words "cot" and "caught" homophones.

faggots...l2phonology

>> No.611758

man da tory

>> No.611762
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611762

have you seen my tuffbrush?

>> No.611784

Britfag here, I heard my brother pronounce Arkansas as R-Kansas; R the letter, Kansas the state.

>> No.611790
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611790

>>611784
You mean that's incorrect?

>> No.611791

Both my father and I pronounced pizza, "peekza." Not sure why, and luckily someone shit on my for my pronunciation. Now I'm not an abnormal freak.

>> No.611792

>>611784
lol, I say that. I've never heard it spoken though. How's it meant to be said?

>> No.611794

>>611790
Ar-can-saw

>> No.611795

My sister calls conservatories, "conserventries".

>> No.611800
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>>611795

>> No.611802

My younger brother used to say "facticle" instead of facility. Playing Goldeneye with him was a barrel of laughs.

>> No.611803

>>611800
What, ho?

>> No.611809

aunt

ant or auwnt?

decide!!!

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611812

>>611803

>> No.611822

>>611809
Ant, obviously. Or anty.

>> No.611826

>>611812
Woman, tell me the matter!

>> No.611829
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611829

>>611826

>> No.611835

>>611829
Pfft! Girls...

>> No.611844

Pronouncing shown and shone the same. Oy vey!

>> No.611848
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611848

>>611835

>> No.611849

>>611844
Pronouncing 'shone' as 'shined'.

>.<

>> No.611858

>>611848
Fine! I don't even remember how this started...
friends now?

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>>611858

>> No.611889
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611889

>>611858

>> No.611894

>>611877
>>611889
wait, what?

>> No.611910

>>611809
aant

>> No.611913

people who don't pronounce the e at the end of guacamole annoy me.

>> No.611926

>>611913
so...
guacamolé or guacamolee

>> No.613798

I rage and lol when Americans say "moble phone"
God damn.

>> No.613800

>>613798
Why?

>> No.613808 [DELETED] 

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>> No.613809

>>613800
Cos it's fucking stupid. It has an i in there, and it's not silent.

>> No.613814

>>613809

I feel the same way about gnomes.

>> No.613817

My Grade 9 English teacher once pronounced 'Parentheses' as 'Par-en-thee-sis'

>> No.613820

I hate people pronouncing z 'zed.' No other letter ends in a hard consonant.

>> No.613828
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>>611877
That is uncalled for madam! How very un-lady like.

>> No.613830

Ravine as "ray-veen"

>> No.613832

>>613820
is m a hard consonant?

>> No.613838

a newscaster called Metallica "Metal-li-ca"

>> No.613843

>>613832
Nope m is soft. If you can hold onto it it's soft.

>> No.613845

>>613820
lrn2english. they've always used ved and zed for v and z.

>> No.613869

>>613832
/m/ is a sonorant...somewhat of a middle thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonorant

>> No.613870

>>613845
ive never ever heard anybody say ved instead of v

>> No.613890

synecdoche

sin-ek-dosh

>> No.613895

>>613890

How is it possible to know a word like synecdoche but not how to pronounce it?

>> No.613899

When people say french words wrong. Like in my college class we were discussing Michel Foucault. Everyone (teacher included) pronounced it Foo-colt. Made me rage.

Also when people pronounce H as haitch. At least you Americans all seem to say it properly. It's disgusting and common.

Also would of, could of etc. I've heard people actually talk like this.

>> No.613905

>>613895
because of the film
synecdoche, new york

>> No.613907

>>613905

I gathered as much, but it's still an obscure art-house flick..I would expect its intended audience to know how to pronounce synecdoche.

>> No.613913

>>613905
I actually have never seen that movie

>> No.613918

>>613913

It's extremely good, you should. I think it will appeal to the /lit/ crowd.

>> No.614030

>>613899
How the fuck else are you supposed to say H? :\

>> No.614031

>>614030
Aych. Without the "Huh" sound front.

>> No.614032

>>614030
The proper way you common filth.

>> No.614039

my little brother
>TOO-boh-GAHn
(toboggan)
>CAIF
(cafe)

>> No.614045

My dad pronounces "wolf" as "woof"

>> No.614048

>>614045
also, "scared" as "skeered"

>> No.614049

>>614032
>>614031
Oh fuck off. You actually pronounce H without a H? I'm sick of you cunts saying "erbal" instead of "herbal" too. It's as bad as "an historic" or "an hero".

>> No.614052

wow, people really get mad about how others pronounce words? is it like one of those things that are really insignificant but losers latch onto it to make themselves seem superior? who cares.

>> No.614053

Tube pronounced "toob" upsets me.

>> No.614056

>>614052
I bet you "axe" people questions

>> No.614060

i used to pronounce bagel as "Bag-ul". trained myself to avoid being made fun of.

i also say melk instead of milk.

my canadian friend says "ca-shoes" for cashews.

>> No.614061

>>613870
i suppose you think english people eat 'blood pudding' for 'high tea' too. travel more or gb2/tv/

>> No.614063

>>614056
i bet it's a matter of great importance to you

>> No.614065

>>614060
You're from Rochester, aren't you?

>> No.614067

I always pronounce meme as 'maym'

>> No.614069

>>614065

no sir. i'm from central massachusetts.

>> No.614074

>>614069
THEN WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU HEAR "BAGGLE"

>> No.614076

>>614074

honestly, i have no idea. my whole family pronounces it like that. my parents grew up within twenty minutes of where we live now, so i really just don't know.

>> No.614081

>>610239
see also: suduko/suduku/sudoko/etc
ffs it's exactly what it looks like if you just fucking read it

>> No.614109

>>614049
Er, you do realize that "an hero" is a meme, right? It's famous because it was, ding ding ding, a typo.

And "an historic" only makes sense if you say "historic" without an H sound, anyway. Prz to be making sense.

>> No.614112

>>614109
Fuck me. Ignore that last part about "an historic". I don't say it like that, anyway, was just trying to make a point - and failing.

>> No.614114

>>614109

an historic is grammatically correct

you may not like the way it sounds or whatever, tough

>> No.614129

>>614114
I would argue that it depends on how you pronounce "historic". To put "an" in front suggests that a vowel sound comes after, so 'istoric. An 'istoric. As opposed to a historic.

>> No.614149 [DELETED] 

Amooricans can't spell ööö hurdur

>> No.614164

Regarding the 'h' debate: I come from Northern England so I don't tend to say the 'h's at the start of words and say things like "an 'ouse" and "an 'istoric".
I still rage when I see it in writing though.

>> No.614169

Dropping your H's is just as bad as dropping your T's or G's. To suggest pronouncing your H's properly is vulgar is ridiculous.

>> No.614175

>>611809

Arnt.

>> No.614178

>>611809
like ain't

>> No.614180

Recently I've just known that the correct way to say:
albeit is all-be-it, I've been saying it (in my head, never used in in casual convo though, not a douche lol) all-beyt)
and
hitherto as hither-to, pronounced it (in my head) as hit-her-to

god damn I'm dumb

>> No.614840

>>610945

Isn't it ˈniːtsʃə? The German IPA said something like: neet-shuh.

>> No.614853

>>614180
Even though I know the correct pronunciation of hitherto, I still pronounce it hi-there-toe in my head when reading a lot. It makes me angry at myself.

I also want to pronounce adroit as though it were French sometimes.

>> No.614875

my friend pronounces 'very' as 'thery', and i have no fucking clue why and i want to kill him whenever he does.

>> No.614879

add-vert-us-ment
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>> No.614881

My government teacher pronounces "volcanic" as "volKAYnic", the days of the week with "dee" instead of "day"

Other than a handful of these quirks he's actually very, very well-spoken and could probably pass for a newscaster if he wanted to, even then, his mannerisms, patterns of speech, random usage of Spanish and the hand gestures he sometimes make when he speaks gets on my nerves more than any weird pronunciations of words.

>> No.614967

A lot of people where I live (including my parents) say be instead of by and me instead of my. It enrages me greatly.

>> No.614982

>>614881

I had a Scottish teacher once who could mostly hide his accent except for little things like "Mondee" and "Tuesdee" etc. lol It was kinda funny.

>> No.614988

>>614982
A lot of people in the Southern US pronounced the days like that, too.

>> No.614991

Melee
>Me - Lee

Music
>Moo-sick

It really annoys whenever people pronounce words like this, especially considering two of my friends pronounce melee like that and it drives me crazy, and I generally don't correct that because I don't want to sound like a dick.

>> No.615010

>>614988
People in Wigan (my home town) speak like that, or sometimes "Mundeh", "Choosdeh", etc.

>> No.615040

seh-nair-ee-oh.

Instead of seh-nar-ee-oh.

Scenario.

>> No.616031

>>614879
I say it like this. I bet you're American and say it AD-ver-tysement. We laugh whenever we hear one of you say Thorough as Therrow.

>> No.616038

My friends says "Mica-sawft"

>Micosoft

>> No.616060

>>610901
its an Uh sound in Cup and an Ah sound in Cop. How are these identical?

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616085

"It's pronounced nucular, you idiots. Not nuclear."

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>>616085
Watch out! I'm about to drop some knuckular bombs!

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616094

>>616085

>> No.616096

My boss said On-o-ma-TOP-i-a

>> No.616098

>>615040
everybody i've ever known says seh-nair-ee-oh. what the fuck planet are you from

>> No.616108

I always mispronounce words because I read more than I talk ;_;

Until last week I thought "posthumously" was pronounced "post-HEW-musly"

>> No.616118

I hear people pronounce pop as "so-duh". It's pretty annoying.

>> No.616124

>>616118
Pop is a shit name, midwestfag.

>> No.616127

>>616118
Calling it pop is even worse than just saying "Coke"

>> No.616141

I often knowingly mispronounce words because not doing so would make me sound like a pretentious asshole.

>> No.616154

>>616124
I'm only kidding, its pretty much interchangeable here. If you say soda people know what you mean. It's just funny when a non-midwesternfag visits and we say pop and they don't know wtf we're talking about

>> No.616239

lol pronounced as 'lawl'

>> No.616350

nigger pronounced as nigga

srsly guys, wise the fuck up.

>> No.616377

So how does one properly pronounce names like Dumas and Camus?

I don't want to be discussing literature and not have people think that I'm pretentious.

>> No.616401

>>616377
Du-mah
Ca-moo

>> No.616412

>>616401
Oh, I always thought Camus would be pronounced differently because of Joey Cameau. How do the French know how anything is supposed to be spelled?

>> No.616447

My brother does it all the time, but the one thing I remember him saying is pronouncing "pecan" as "peckin".

I was taking the SAT II for World History, and I get accommodations for a reader, someone who reads me the instructions. The person who was appointed my reader didn't understand what she was supposed to do, so she read me all the questions and answers, and I would ask her not to, but she kept doing it.

Point is, I'm surprised I did well on them because she pronounced almost all the words wrong, even the ones that were in English (she read catapulted as capitulated). And I understand Chinese is hard to read, but it pisses me off when people pronounce Mao Ze Tong wrong and thing the t is a t and not a d. I should relax more...

I never used that accommodation again.

I'm a puss for using it in the first place, I know.

>> No.616464

>>610179
FI5hT +HE ín+3Rnet c3N$0rshÍp hT+p.// áT , KÍMmÓÀ : $E / F|5H+ ThE |nt€Rñ3t <3n50R5HÌp

>> No.616463

I thought e-pi-tome and a-pit-o-me were synonyms, not the same word. Every time I saw epitome I would say e-pi-tome and every time I wanted to write a-pit-o-me I wrote apitomey. I was corrected sometime in high school.

>> No.616490

>>616447
I always see the the Tse Tung or Tsetung latinizations in somewhat older writings but these days I only see it written Zedong. I've never, ever seen it written Tong.

I personally pronounce it t-say tongue, I take it that is incorrect?

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Everyone where I live speaks with a really stupid accent. Examples:

car - /kaː/
store - /stɔɘ/
(no) sir - /sʌ/
drawer - /drɔː/
pull - /pʌɫ/
bag - /bɛəg/
Bedford - /'bɛfɪd/
Dartmouth - /'daʔmɘθ/
Taunton - /'taʔɘn/

Southeastern Massachusetts, by the way.

>> No.616500

>>610180
fíghT Th3 ínT€rn€t c3NsoR$híP hTTp:// àt , KÌmMÓÀ ; $3 / fìghT TH3 íñternET C€ñ50r$hÌP

>> No.616511

>>616491
you're a southie, what do you expect?
Also, how do you feel about Haavad University?

>> No.616513

>>616490
It's more like a soft d. Again, Chinese is difficult and I hated learning pronunciations so I shouldn't be holding it against anyone if they can't say it right.

>> No.616612

>>610307
He is an imposter. He must be a Newfie.

>> No.617403

>>616490
Learn the difference between Pinyin and Wade Giles. This accounts for the differences in spelling and (sometimes) pronunciation by English speakers.

>> No.619256

The emphasized DEE on "defense" in sporting environments always puzzled me.

>> No.619411

>>610403
Hey! That's alright, that's how my grand dad talks. He says Warsh instead of wash and a few other words with added r's. I think it's cute.

Anyway, I hate it when news reporters say deTAILS at six!

And has anyone ever been around a Buffalo accent? Ugh. Tuesday is Tuesdee, and any word that ends in an r gets 50 more r's after it. Car is Cairr. Hockey is Hackey, ALWAYS with a nasal sound to it. I swear, people from Buffalo talk through their fucking noses.

>> No.619415

Pronouncing brazier like brassiere

>> No.619420

>>617403
The average person doesn't care about nor need to know the difference between Pinyin and Wades-Giles. I know it's not hard to learn either, but unless the person has an interest in China, chances are they won't bother to learn it.

>> No.619426

'Zoology' pronounced 'zoo-ol-uh-jee' when it's 'ZO-ol-o-gy', even though I can completely understand why that is commonly mispronounced.

BUT DO NOT PRONOUNCE THE 'T' IN 'OFTEN' OR I WILL FUCKING RAGE.

>> No.619433

>>619426
Other than the "t" in often, another that gets me is pronouncing the "l" in almond or salmon

>> No.619437

>>614129
>>614129
>>614129
>>614129
>>614129
>>614129
>>614129
>>614129
>>614129
>>614129

THIS

>> No.619473

>>611809
When I lived in NC everyone said Aunt like awnt. When I moved to NY it was always Ant.

>>619433
Really? I don't think I've heard someone NOT pronounce the "l" in almond. Where do you live? I agree with you on salmon though.

>> No.619489

hyper bowl

>> No.619497

>>619489
Haha! Hyperbole, yeah? Fun word. Never had the misfortune of being around someone who said that though.

>> No.619501

omni potent

>> No.619503

I have always heard it pronounced "Confinscated."

>> No.619518

I have this girl in my class who is like 1/2 Western Australian and 1/2 New Zealander , I fucking cry every time she speaks. I had to write a news script for her to read off a teleprompter. Some examples..

Sudanese - Sud ah nez
Maori - Maury
Café - Caff

>> No.619519

>>619473
I grew up in the South, but I've lived in other places. I've only heard it with the 'l' pronounced on TV.

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>new-kyuh-lur

>> No.619670

I always feel like I'm the only one who rages when I hear someone pronlounce "especially" as "ex-specially."

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619672

>>619670
>ex-specially

>> No.619676

>>619670
I hate that one.

>> No.619677

>>619670
or "ick-specially"

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619683

It's wash, not warsh. Italian, not I-tal-e-an. Idea, not i-deer. Ask, not axe. Nuu-cle-ar, not new-clear. Missouri, not mizzura. Dog, not dow-gg. Fatty, not fat-teh. Forty-four, not farty-far. And, for the last time, there are g's at the end of "ing" words! It is hunting, not huntin'; eating, not eatin'; and so on.

>> No.619689

I say "apostrophe" like "apostophe".
It irritates me when people say "eeethur", or "deetails" (instead of "dehtails), "preFERably" (instead of PREHferably") and "presTEEgeous" (instead of "Prestihgeous")

>> No.619690

>>610181
My history teacher pronounces "modernity" as "merdinity"

He also looks like a bald Teddy Roosevelt. Yes he has the mustache too.

>> No.619692

>>619689
>press-di-jiss
whatthefuckamipronouncing.jpg

>> No.619694

>>619683
Subway worker here, "eyetalian" bread pisses me off

>> No.619699

>>619692
Prestigious, though instead of an EE sound, the "ti" has an "i" like in the word "dinner"

>> No.619701

My dear history professor pronounced "emperor" as "emprah."

No fooling.

>> No.619704

>>619699
Honestly I hear the ē-pronunciation enough for it to be considered "correct" at this point... Remember, English isn't a dead language. Slang today could be correct tomorrow.

>> No.619705

>>619701
SPESS MEHRENS

>> No.619706

>>619683
Hey.
Most of everything you mentioned are regional dialects or accents or whatever, and nearly every language has these kinds of variations, especially in a big ass country like Amurrica. And fuck you, I say eating as eatin' if it's jus' me an' my friends hangin' out.
>>619689
Only news reporters say dehtails. It's fine to say DEtails.

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>>619683
>My face when people actually pronounce the g in ing in conversation

>> No.619721

I hate it when Victorians say "castle" with an 'a' like "cat" (like the American way, but a much shorter vowel). I've heard that Qlders do it as well, but I can't say I've noticed it (NSWfag here).

Awnt vs ant? Ahnt, bitches!

People who don't distinguish the emphasis in those words that are used both as nouns (first syllable emphasis) and verbs (second syllable emphasis). Just about everyone does OB-ject (n) and ob-JECT (v), but the one that lots of people mix up is RE-search (n) and re-SEARCH (v).

How hard is it to say "statistics" properly?

Saying "buoy" as "boo-ee".

"Toilet" as "turlet", and "pretty" as "purty".

Leaving out prepositions; "The President returned to Washington [on] Thursday", "Are you going to write [to] me?", etc. "Write me a letter" is fine, but I think it sounds weird when the direct object is left out; it makes the indirect object sound like the direct object.

"et cetera" as "ek setrah".

And OP, sometimes I say "man-DAY-tuhree", just for the lulz and eccentricity. I think it sounds more forceful too, especially if it's "absolutely man-DAY-tory".


I like hearing different accents/dialects, it's one of my favourite (not favorite) things about travelling (not traveling), but some things...

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Had a politics teacher in year 11 pronounce depot as 'deh-pot', rectangle as 'rectango' (wut), and hi as 'hoi'.
She didn't have an accent, she was just retarded. Her tongue was way too big for her mouth.

I've noticed people in QLD seem to say words like 'skewl', 'pewl', 'kewl' instead of school, pool and cool.

>> No.620672

>>620669


WUT

>> No.620672,1 [INTERNAL] 

>>614967
Where do they say "be" instead of "by," and what do they mean?

Could you use the word (the way they use it) in a sentence?