I like "sangwidge" too
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:32 (six years ago) link
I mean RP is the language of the enemy basically so anything to fuck with it
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:33 (six years ago) link
my mum always said "host-pital" and when challenged would say "that's how people should say it, it sounds better"
my dad would sometimes say "unstable" with the stress on the "un" and make it rhyme with biddable but this was a weedy student joke he had never grown out of
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:36 (six years ago) link
I've always done the mispronounce on purpose thing as well, I think it comes from growing up watching looney tunes
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:36 (six years ago) link
My brother used to do that too - pronouncing picturesque as picture-skew always tickled me.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:38 (six years ago) link
both my mum and her mum pronounce 'psychiatric' as psy-kree-attic and it bothers me every time
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:39 (six years ago) link
My friend always says "Charlie Therzon"
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
My granny suffered terrible from the arthur-itis.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
My mother, on the other hand, was a big fan of Downtown Abbey.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 11:43 (six years ago) link
mum was also enjoyably immune to branding puns: she pronounced portakabin as por-TAH-kuhbin and spudulike as spu-DOO-liKé
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:53 (six years ago) link
I can't say "statistics"
always comes out like sisszzzsisics
― frogbs, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
My mom used to pronounce "Toys 'R' Us" as "U.S. Toys Russ."
― Wes Brodicus, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
decisions - always comes out as 'decishions'
― Grandpont Genie, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 14:11 (six years ago) link
sorry, I meant 'deshishions'
my dad also sometimes used to say "mizzled" instead of "misled" (again a feeble student joke, as are come to think of it now perhaps known as "dad jokes")
― mark s, Thursday, 1 February 2018 12:59 (six years ago) link
at one time as a kid I seriously thought mizled ("I" sound as in "lime") was a separate word to misled, having only read the former and heard the latter.
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:02 (six years ago) link
further items on ken c's old thread: words that should be easy to pronounce but you can't pronounce
(i am not calling for deej-style action: let a hundred flowers bloom!)
― mark s, Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:06 (six years ago) link
I'm always confused by people using "let a hundred flowers bloom" as it was a cover to expose those who didn't follow the party orthodoxy, after which Mao launched his anti-rightist purge. I'm 95% sure we aren't going to be sent to labour camps for starting overlapping threads, but would rather play it safe.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:13 (six years ago) link
'anemone'
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:17 (six years ago) link
deej is our mao
― mark s, Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
I also have a problem with "antibiotics", I tend to say "anti-bee-otics" instead of "anti-bye-otics" unless I slow it down.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:18 (six years ago) link
February. For me it's either 'Feb-yew-ree' or, if I get bored of that, 'Febree'.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
I only relatively recently discovered that you're supposed to pronounce the 'h' in 'adhesive' too.
― the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:21 (six years ago) link
f that
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
Apparently, one isn't meant to hit the 'h' in 'vehicle' as hard as I do.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:22 (six years ago) link
my mum's mum was scottish (well, rutherglen scottish, which is a kind of scottish) and was very firm indeed abt pronouncing the h in words like "wheel" (= you have to say Hweel not weel)
i live in london tho: if there's a glottal i can stop i will and do
― mark s, Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
ie i say wee-oo
cool hwip
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:26 (six years ago) link
I do say vee-hickle on purpose sometimes
(of course L is alveolar not glottal: basically i drop all the consonants of whatever articulatory type and i am right to, awwigh')
― mark s, Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:29 (six years ago) link
I think I occasionally 'mispronounce' words because I grew up all over the eastern side of the US and accumulated a plethora of conflicting regional accents throughout the course of my childhood.
― Senior Soft-Serve Tech at the Froyo Arroyo (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
Vehicle and the t in "often" vary regionally, don't let anyone (like Bill Bryson) tell you you're wrong
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
I don't let Bill Bryson tell me shit
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link
^^^
― bizarrer Gandhara (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:37 (six years ago) link
my former roommate's granny could never pronounce janeane garofalo's name right, it always came out, and this killed us for some reason, as: JEAN-ANNE gair-uh-FOE-low
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:38 (six years ago) link
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/vNEAAOSwdGFYr3ln/s-l300.jpg
― mark s, Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:41 (six years ago) link
haha yes
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
'innovative' and 'optometrist'
― Badgers (dog latin), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
this reminds me of an elderly substitute teacher who was completely insistent that (iirc) 'what' and 'watt' were pronounced differently, much to our confusion
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:57 (six years ago) link
tbh tho i don't myself maintain the distinction i like when i hear it bcz it reminds me of my gran, who was grebt
― mark s, Thursday, 1 February 2018 13:59 (six years ago) link
grebt
Yeah my granny is also scotch & pronounces wh words with the h I also like how you can tell when an English person is doing it as an affectation cause they occasionally slip up and put the h sound into a regular w word
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:03 (six years ago) link
Which is another good thing to do on purpose obv
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:04 (six years ago) link
Aggregate
But the thing I have most difficulty saying is 'Jack DeJohnette'
― Agharta Christie (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
with my NY accent, it's nearly impossible to say "horror." comes out like harrrrrrrr
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Thursday, 1 February 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link