Posted on 03/15/2015 3:38:57 AM PDT by iowamark
Whatever:
Is Miami, Oklahoma pronounced the same as Miami, Florida?
It’s regional and most of those words we don’t know how to pronounce “ain’t” really used much.
Forehead, Worcester and Boatswain are.
Aunt=(ant/awnt)
So that would mean a boson is a particle in charge of equipment...
My personal peeves:
Restaurateur - folks, there is no N in that word.
Conversated - just plain pretentious and wrong
Commentated - another in the same vein
Applicable - making it a four syllable tongue twister
And for we sailors, bosun is just the begining.
Let’s not forget “corps”, a word Mr. Obama could not pronounce.
“Worchester.” But look up: there’s no h. It’s a mean trick,”
Yea like the “a” Boehner. It’s really pronounced Boner, as in
ignorant, compromised, bonehead, or “bonned” if you prefer.
Aloha, Oregon. Don't go there and pronouce it like you're in Hawaii.
Zactly...
One of the most difficult things I’ve tried to do was teach a young foreign lady to read English. An example: she wanted to pronounce “phone” as “pa hon ee”.
Literature - lit er a ture
Temperature - temp er a ture - temp a ture
Oh, and speaking of Worcester. There’s the nearby town of Leicester. Have a go at that.
I remember my grandfather saying to me, “By gar, I tink ve go to town today Davey, eh?
May not be as bad as trying to teach someone to read English but I sure understood him.
The one that makes me crazy is when people pronounce REALTOR as if it was REALATOR.
And it’s always superfluous to some. although just can’t pro nounce it. More catchy words... BLACK LIVES MADDER. Word duplicity and consanace blurring what’s not to obfuscate the idle mind.
Chick lit favorite Francis Parkinson Keyes wrote smut-free romance novels back in the 20th c. Her surname Keyes rhymed with “size.” Nobody remembers that either. :(
It's "How-ston" Street.
Not vittle, wittles as in wittles is up.
Comfortable pronounced “Comftorble”
Jewelry pronounced “Jewlery”
Comftorbleness used as a word.
And, in CT, any word that has a double t (button, for example) pronounce “bu’-hen”.
A common Lutheran pilpul argument is whether the 20th century theologian whose first name was Dietrich should have pronounced his last name Bon-haw-fer or Bon-hay-fer (it's spelled Bonhoeffer).
One of my graduate philosophy professors pronounced George Berkeley's name like [Charles] Barkley, another like the California college. Since George has become famous for asserting that things exist only because they are perceived, I wonder how his name was supposed to be perceived.
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