Jefferson Airplane was the US West Coast Fairport ConventionFairport Convention was the English Jefferson Airplane
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 19 October 2018 14:16 (five years ago) link
Bob Grant got his dick cast by Cynthia Plaster (????????)
I went to an exhibition of her collection of casts many years ago, and Bob Grant's was there.
― tokyo rosemary, Friday, 19 October 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
The pronunciation of the word "gazebo," which I thought was pronounced "gays-bow" until at least the 8th grade.
― Plinka Trinka Banga Tink (Eliza D.), Friday, 19 October 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
Sympathetic lol. If I had a nickel for every word in my vocabulary whose pronunciation I had to learn the hard way...
― Extra Shprankles (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 October 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
I read 'determined' as 'deter-minded' when I was a kid.
Found out yesterday that Cartesian geometry was named after Descartes...
― koogs, Friday, 19 October 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
recently I had the blinding insight that Pekinese dogs were named for Peking/Beijing
― Brad C., Friday, 19 October 2018 21:08 (five years ago) link
oh i thought that said "weren't named for" for a second and had a heart flutter
― macropuente (map), Friday, 19 October 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
i was shockingly old when i really thought about why people mispronounce words. it’s because they learned them by reading, and that is cool, not dumb. if you grow up in a place with no gazebos or people talking about gazebos then of course you pronounce it gaze-bo, because the actual pronunciation makes no sense.
still kinda bitter about my parents laughing when a wee me brought up the ancient greek philosopher So Crates
― mookieproof, Friday, 19 October 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
that is otm
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Friday, 19 October 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
xp So Crates, the mentor of Play-Doh
― Brad C., Friday, 19 October 2018 22:24 (five years ago) link
Aris-Toddles
― Ludo, Saturday, 20 October 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
Epic Wheatus?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 October 2018 11:01 (five years ago) link
I think I was lucky enough to never have to say the words epi-tome and hyper-bowl before learning how they were actually pronounced, but I did think they were pronounced that way
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 20 October 2018 11:10 (five years ago) link
lolThis is the thread we tend to use for youthful misreadings of words not heard aloud, yes? I was thinking the other day about how when I was a kid I always used to read the word bedraggled as “bed-raggled”, which made sense to me as it meant looking like you’d just got out of bed
― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 20 October 2018 12:26 (five years ago) link
I surely mentioned 'froot-eye-on' (aka 'fruition') itt. Surely I did.
― Extra Shprankles (Old Lunch), Saturday, 20 October 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
When I was a kid I would get puzzled by the use of the past participle of the unfamiliar verb “infrare”
― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 20 October 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link
Neneh (Cherry) is pronounced Neh-neh not Nayner.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
Barfly was my favorite of this particular type of misunderstanding
I would go to the video store and wonder would you call a movie Barfly? Is it about barf?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:20 (five years ago) link
it's a syllable boundary mistake more often than not
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:21 (five years ago) link
I just realised that the cover of Bowie's Tonight is a nod to Gilbert & George, duh x infnity
― MaresNest, Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
I don't know if this is actually true, but it recently occurred to me that the Elton John "Empty Garden" John Lennon tribute song ("Won't you come out to play in your empty garden") is a reference to Lennon's last stage appearance with Elton at Madison Square Garden.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 20 October 2018 16:04 (five years ago) link
a couple of days ago i encountered the word "misled" and after many years of knowing otherwise my brain still automatically reads this as "miss-eld".
― visiting, Saturday, 20 October 2018 16:08 (five years ago) link
me too
the "never make fun of someone for mispronouncing a word because that means they learned it through reading" is a semi-new greeting card / social media thing... I don't know what to make of it... because yes, on the one hand, I grew up near a park with a gazebo, so I knew how to pronounce gazebo at a very early age. at the same time, should we really be congratulating people... on knowing how to read
― flappy bird, Saturday, 20 October 2018 16:21 (five years ago) link
The only thing I disagree with is the idea that the correct pronunciation of gazebo “makes no sense”, I feel like as pronunciations of words go it makes an unusual amount of sense. Just three syllables doing exactly what they should imo
― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 20 October 2018 16:34 (five years ago) link
it could just as easily be pronounced ga-zeb-o.
― visiting, Saturday, 20 October 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
That’s true
― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 20 October 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
years ago, someone i didn't know well was telling me about a writer i should check out, whose name i heard as "ka-moo". i had no idea who they were talking about. only afterwards did i realise they were talking about albert camus, which was embarrassing as i'd read several of his books but had never thought of his name in its correct french pronunciation.
― visiting, Saturday, 20 October 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
same here with GerterI also thought determined was deter-minded!
― kinder, Saturday, 20 October 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
lol yeah once when i worked in a bookstore a customer got annoyed with me when they asked if we had any "gerter" and i didn't get who they were talking about.
― visiting, Saturday, 20 October 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link
What's the excuse for people who pronounce "turmeric" like "tumour-ic" or, worse, like it rhymes with "numeric". (I heard both this week.) They clearly weren't reading closely.
― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 October 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
Builder at a job interview asked if he could explain the difference between a joist and a girder: "Easy. Joist wrote Ulysses, and Girder wrote Faust"
― the Warnock of Clodhop Mountain (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 20 October 2018 19:16 (five years ago) link
although that's really more for a "disgusting savages" thread xp
― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 October 2018 19:26 (five years ago) link
Jealous, I’ve never heard the word turmeric twice in one week
― coetzee.cx (wins), Saturday, 20 October 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
I've been cooking with the fresh stuff for the last few years. Turns your fingers orange when you chop it.Good for anti-inflammatopry purposes too.
& I thought a Gerder was more gerd than normal.Young Werther would be proud
― Stevolende, Saturday, 20 October 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
I work for Hare Krsnas. Someone was cooking while I was on my dinner break and mentioned something about the spice without pronouncing the "r". I asked if that was the correct pronunciation, since I was actually questioning myself, as my Mum has been pronouncing it (correctly, it turns out) my whole life but she often mispronounces things. A 17yo dude jumped in and said with great confidence that it was pronounced like "numeric". He sounded convincing until I checked a dictionary at home.
― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Saturday, 20 October 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
I've definitely been saying it to rhyme with 'numeric'
I knew an otherwise intelligent guy who said 'epi-tome' but he always (mis)used the word in the most hilariously cranky sentences (at a hipster cupcake stand: "this is the epi-tome of why everyone should be killed," etc) that I never bothered to correct him
I used to pronounce Jan Garbarek's last name wrong (fwiw it's yar-BAR-ekk, not YAR-ba-rek)
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 21 October 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
what % below intelligent is he as a result one wonders
― Dmac TT (darraghmac), Sunday, 21 October 2018 00:53 (five years ago) link
a film professor in university pronounced Jim Jarmusch's name "yarmusch" and he was usually right about everything else but i have never heard anyone else say it this way, ever
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 21 October 2018 08:55 (five years ago) link
Yim Yarmusch
― My Gig: The Thin Beast (sic), Sunday, 21 October 2018 08:59 (five years ago) link
Is it pronounced Jar-mush, or Jar-moosh? Cause I heard someone pronounce it the latter way and it seemed wrong to me.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 21 October 2018 15:52 (five years ago) link
punchuin givjabunchafivesin
― Stevolende, Sunday, 21 October 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
JIm Jar-moosh's 2 violent brothers..
his band the Del Byzanteens were quite great in places. A Girl's Imagination for one.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 21 October 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC7yrT1MJrw
Hadn't realised that he's actually played with John Lurie before they made films together
― Stevolende, Sunday, 21 October 2018 20:13 (five years ago) link
a film professor in university pronounced Jim Jarmusch's name "yarmusch" and he was usually right about everything else but i have never heard anyone else say it this way, ever― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, October 21, 2018 4:55 AM (eighteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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this is awesome, instead of sounding dumb he sounds pretentious
― flappy bird, Monday, 22 October 2018 03:09 (five years ago) link
I thought most surname pronunciations Americanised after a few generations anyway so a Scandinavian Y pronunciation for J spelling would cease to be. & assuming that that being the source of the name meant it still kept the same qualities is overthinking and indeed pretentious.Yeah, like.
― Stevolende, Monday, 22 October 2018 07:41 (five years ago) link
That’s my understanding - so you wouldn’t say “vakovski sisters”, say (if indeed that’s how you say it in polish, I don’t fucking know do I)
― coetzee.cx (wins), Monday, 22 October 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link
I think I once said 'tumeric' and my mum corrected me. Since then I've noticed that at least half of people seem to say it that way, including my wife, and I wonder what it is about the word that makes us want to drop the first r. I don't think I've ever heard anyone pronounce it to rhyme with numeric!
― Alba, Monday, 22 October 2018 13:08 (five years ago) link
Idgi at all. No one says "tunip" or "tukey".
― The nexus of the crisis (Sund4r), Monday, 22 October 2018 13:35 (five years ago) link
I haven't heard many of these words pronounced aloud.
Except for the director, Mr. Jair-a-moosh.
― pplains, Monday, 22 October 2018 13:47 (five years ago) link
Speaking of words that are frequently mispronounced, or maybe not, why does everyone seem to pronounce (sea) anemone "an enemy" (i.e. -n-n-m- not -n-m-n-)?
After I saw it written down as a kid I made an effort to say the Ns and Ms in the right order next time and my gran asked me to repeat myself, after which she hmmed and moved on as if declining to point out my mistake, and since then I've tried not to say it out loud. Not that it comes up very often, but it'd be nice to know if I'm missing something.
(NB "everyone" here is mainly my family, so maybe it's another from my Dad's family's repertoire of in-jokes stemming from 1950s radio comedies or something - but I have heard other people say it like that too, and I'm not sure I've heard anyone except myself say it -n-m-n- out loud)
― a passing spacecadet, Monday, 22 October 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link