Hoof/hooves!
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
Err... behoof/behooves!
Please ignore me.
When a dwarf does a runner, would you say the dwarf "hoofs it"?
― "Endemic. What does that mean, man?" (Branwell Bell), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
Yes, unless they're actually a satyr.
#keepignoringmeplz
― Gibbering Hard Gibberish Soft (Leee), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 17:19 (ten years ago) link
i was shocked to find last night that my bf pronounces the word "adequate" with a hard k sound, like "attakit"
― clouds, Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:19 (ten years ago) link
What on earth?
― how's life, Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:22 (ten years ago) link
i wasn't even trying to correct him; i just had no idea what word he was saying!
― clouds, Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:26 (ten years ago) link
Is he from a particular place or has he just been mispronouncing it his whole life? It's kinda endearing to tell you the truth.
― how's life, Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:28 (ten years ago) link
Adequa state
― unw? j.......n (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:36 (ten years ago) link
I think kw for q is slowly losing traction. I hear "korter" all the time now for quarter.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:38 (ten years ago) link
he's from louisiana, but i've never heard anyone else pronounce it like that
fwiw he also pronounces "thermos" like "thur-moze"
― clouds, Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:40 (ten years ago) link
i think it's endearing too! just surprising.
― clouds, Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:41 (ten years ago) link
Uh, thur-moze otm
― unw? j.......n (darraghmac), Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:47 (ten years ago) link
thur-muss
― how's life, Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:48 (ten years ago) link
ther-mos
― conrad, Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:52 (ten years ago) link
unw? j.......n are you reading thermos as a plural of thermo
― conrad, Thursday, 13 March 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
could U be? thermos beautiful girl in the world?
― eardrum buzz aldrin (NickB), Thursday, 13 March 2014 13:01 (ten years ago) link
eigh wud dai fore yew
― clouds, Thursday, 13 March 2014 13:05 (ten years ago) link
OK, so apparently I've been pronouncing "baton" wrong my whole life? Always thought it was buh-TAWN, but I just listened to a newscast where it was referred to as a BAA-tun.
― how's life, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link
So how have you been pronouncing Baton Rouge?
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 13:16 (nine years ago) link
Always thought it was buh-TAWN
that's how michael johnson always says it tbf
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 13:23 (nine years ago) link
Slaithwaite
― anvil, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 13:28 (nine years ago) link
So how have you been pronouncing Baton Rouge?― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:16 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Tuesday, December 23, 2014 8:16 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
The second way, but I've never considered it as the same thing that a cheerleader twirls or a police beats someone with.
― how's life, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 13:30 (nine years ago) link
Even though it is?
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link
Always thought it was buh-TAWN, but I just listened to a newscast where it was referred to as a BAA-tun.
And BAA-ton?
― Root It Oot (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
fwiw i have relatives in louisiana who rhyme baton with satin
― ♪♫_\o/_♫♪ (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 14:06 (nine years ago) link
That's what I was trying to convey with the second pronunciation.
― how's life, Tuesday, 23 December 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
I'm just faking my way through being able to write words phonetically.
regional dialects ftwthere is no "wrong" if people understand you
― vigetable (La Lechera), Tuesday, 23 December 2014 14:39 (nine years ago) link
also http://ipa.typeit.org/
Yes there is no such thing as mispronunciation &c but there's a weird mispronunciation I've been hearing more & more (basically from listening to US podcasts) that I can't help but find grating: this bizarre mangling of the word "processes" so the last syllable sounds like the last syllable of "indices", "theses" &c. It's obv an example of overcorrection & not a big deal but it sounds dumb as hell imo - god knows how the first person got it in their head to start doing this, having presumably heard other people speak before
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2016 12:07 (seven years ago) link
Oh, I've heard that one lots of times. I never really knew where it came from. Is it new? I don't know if I personally know someone who does it. I also don't think I know anyone who drops the "h" in "historical" or "hotel" when speaking English or who pronounces "detail" like dəˈtāl, although I've heard all of these on TV.
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 November 2016 13:48 (seven years ago) link
who pronounces "detail" like dəˈtāl
What vowel sound are the "process-eez" people using in the first syllable? I use the same long "o" in "process" and "project" (as a noun) that I use in "program(me)" but I don't think anyone else in the US does. Does anyone outside Canada pronounce "project" with a long "o"?
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Saturday, 19 November 2016 13:54 (seven years ago) link
Does anyone outside Canada pronounce "project" with a long "o"?
Yes.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 November 2016 13:57 (seven years ago) link
processeees people are all american so use the short "o" sound which is more common over there I think
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
as far as being new, it's new to me at least
often have to suppress a slight cringe with hypercorrections but with this I lean towards confidently stating it's bad
"remember to tip your waitresseees"
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Saturday, 19 November 2016 14:10 (seven years ago) link
loves his word sounds
― imago, Saturday, 19 November 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
Not that it matters much, but I am utterly puzzled by how to pronounce: Mafeking.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
It's mentioned in a few Monty Python sketches.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:20 (five years ago) link
I use the same long "o" in "process" and "project" (as a noun) that I use in "program(me)" but I don't think anyone else in the US does. Does anyone outside Canada pronounce "project" with a long "o"?
As an American I can say that long-o "process" is a Canadian tell for me.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
That doesn't get me any further than I was before.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
Three years on I’m still pretty sure process-eez is bad, what the fuck are you doing Americans
― YouGov to see it (wins), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
This is war and you will have to hit the mattress-eez
― YouGov to see it (wins), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:26 (five years ago) link
Maff/e/king
... can't get the schwa symbol to work.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
modern mafeking is renamed mahikeng ("place of rocks" in setswana) but the batswana people still generally call it mafikeng, which gives a good idea of how the locals say it
english english pron is maff-uh-king with maff the emphasised syllable and uh as just the colourless placeholder vowel
― mark s, Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
... what mark said.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:31 (five years ago) link
Looks like I’ve been mispronouncing “piquant” all these years, at least in my head, never say it out loud.
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
http://www.blogissues.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/schwa_world_operations_manual.jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:34 (five years ago) link
Pick-wannt?
― michael schenker group is no laughing matter (Matt #2), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
Peek-want
― TS: “8:05” vs. “905” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 August 2019 19:48 (five years ago) link