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