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50 Incorrect Pronunciations That You Should Avoid
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| December 2, 2008
| Maeve Maddox
Posted on 11/18/2016 12:35:53 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Buckeye McFrog
DEEtroit really seems to p*ss-off the locals. That's just one of many Appalachianisms--and "city" should accompany it.
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posted on
11/18/2016 1:48:51 PM PST
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: rellimpank
Nah-vah-duh (often heard on newscasts) instead of Neh-vada, drives the locals crazy.
To: Pelham
I’m interested in the history of the language and how English has developed in different places, so I am glad for the diversity and variations and that traces of the older language remain. I was visiting Carl Sandburg’s Home in NC some years ago and heard some other visitors speaking what I believe was a mountain dialect. I didn’t understand much, but it was fascinating to hear.
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posted on
11/18/2016 1:51:51 PM PST
by
Southside_Chicago_Republican
(If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
To: WillVoteForFood
“along with pacific when people should say specific”
Might not be a mispronunciation, it might be a slip of the tongue or mondegreen (mistakenly using the wrong word).
There’s a tv show I watch where one character does that constantly, with some funny results, like “worst case Ontario” and “beauty is in the eye when you hold her”.
To: Buckeye McFrog
DEEtroit really seems to p*ss-off the locals.huh....yet so many are named Lee-roy and not Luh roy.
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posted on
11/18/2016 1:54:26 PM PST
by
Covenantor
(Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
To: Tenlein
“I dont think Ive ever heard medieval pronounced with four syllables, or with an ee in the first syllable.”
I’ve heard it, but oddly enough, only from Brits and Canadians, not Americans.
To: patriot08
Hate it when pecan is pronounced pee-can ..right or wrong thats not the way we say it in Tx.
We will have to have only written communication in the future, or avoid the the topic of nuts. It's hard here in Georgia pecans are a MAJOR agricultural item. The new crop arrived at the hardware store a few weeks ago. Delicious!
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posted on
11/18/2016 1:55:43 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: patriot08
Hate it when pecan is pronounced pee-can ..right or wrong thats not the way we say it in Tx.
We will have to have only written communication in the future, or avoid the the topic of nuts. It's hard here in Georgia pecans are a MAJOR agricultural item. The new crop arrived at the hardware store a few weeks ago. Delicious!
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posted on
11/18/2016 1:55:43 PM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: EveningStar
To: EveningStar
I’ve noticed that many folks do not pronounce the second “T” in words with a double “T”. Example: button.
I hear it pronounced but-en rather than but-ton.
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posted on
11/18/2016 1:57:09 PM PST
by
Sergio
(An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
To: Red Badger
pe-CAN not pekahn............... My lettered parents corrected my "pee-can," learned from copying all my grade-school chums, indicating that the pronunciation sounded sort of vile to the tutored ear, especially at church suppers.
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posted on
11/18/2016 1:57:32 PM PST
by
imardmd1
(Fiat Lux)
To: Tenlein
I dont think Ive ever heard medieval pronounced with four syllables, or with an ee in the first syllable.*********************
I have, many times.
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posted on
11/18/2016 1:57:44 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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posted on
11/18/2016 1:59:03 PM PST
by
Pelham
(the refusal to Deport is defacto Amnesty)
To: Gil4
I don't say "prolly" actually, but I hear many people say it.
Is your wife from the Philadelphia area because "crowns" instead of "crayons" is prominent there. I can attest that it is difficult to stop that one.
To: Red Badger
I remember my parents arguing about the right way to pronounce pecan. My mom was from CA and my dad was from AR.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Oh definately a reason. After a few nobody bothers to pronounce the first “c”.
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posted on
11/18/2016 2:00:56 PM PST
by
super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: Tenlein
32. medieval The word has four syllables. The first E may be pronounced either short [med] or long [meed]. Say /MED-EE-EEVAL/ or /MEE-DEE-EEVAL/, not /meed-eval/.
I apologize. What I have heard is Med_ ih -eeval. Usually while watching a show about someone involved in the study of medieval history.
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posted on
11/18/2016 2:02:10 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: imardmd1
Saying ‘pe-kahn’ just sounds so affectatious and pretentious, like someone trying to sound high class when you know they aren’t...................
To: EveningStar
How did nuclear come to be pronounced nook yuh lehr ?
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posted on
11/18/2016 2:06:56 PM PST
by
frithguild
(The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
To: rightwingcrazy; John Robinson
You dont need to pronounce the first c in arctic.If you are enunciating the word correctly, yes, you do! Look in your dictionary. Remember, the word irregardless is irredundant! < BG >
John, why does the spellcheck accept irregardless?
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posted on
11/18/2016 2:06:58 PM PST
by
Don W
( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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