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Electoral.
Quite a few of my family seem to say Houmous as 'Who-muss' instead of 'Hoommus'
Not really sure how to express it the 'normal' way but I believe it's more of a rapid 'hoom' than a drawn out 'whom'.
Oh god, and I've heard Falafel as 'Fall-a-fell'
It's sooooo embarassing 😂
What about 'Arks'?
'Have you arksed him?'
'Arks him yourself!'
Aks is a legitimate form of ask
Oh, interesting.
Words you of always pronounced incorrectly.
All this talking proper stuff has made me think of Gyles Brandreth (the man with the knitted head, if anyone can remember that far back?)
See him? See his pish about pronunciation? He can stick his queen's English where the kwinoa don't shine! Right beside a couple of fresh croy-sants.
I always struggle when people are attempting to pronounce 'specific' and end up somewhere in the middle of the 'pacific' ocean.
Where pacifically would you like item x to be delivered? Somewhere between Los Angeles and New Zealand would be an appropriate answer*.
*if I was being a git and a pedant.
This is one I came and stumbled accross recently. Dint know it: chthonic
Answers on a postcard pls.
On the brand name thing, and bike related, I'd always thought "Leatt" was pronounced "Leet" but on one of the Xmas giveaway videos (or similar) Hannah was pronouncing it "Layatt" and I've since since a video from them where they call themselves "Leeyatt".
Arkansas
Someone I unfortunately worked with said ‘Ar-Kansas’, instead of Ar-can-saw.
True story.
I-dint-know-dat. Ta, 1% less thick now 🙃
I pronounce shitake incorrectly just for giggles.
In the ambulance service, I hear the word ‘ospickle’ a lot. It makes my left eyelid twitch every single time. Especially if preceded with the words ‘to’ and ‘rushed’.
Aks is a legitimate form of ask
If you're a rapper, sure.
On the brand name thing, and bike related
Giant
Commen-kal
Commence-al
Commen-sal
I was working with a company called Quay pharma and I spent quite a long time calling them “kway” pharma. I’d like to think it was because the word was out of context but really it’s because I’m an idiot.
Wound (injury) I've been reading/internally pronouncing as wound (wrapped around) all my life. Luckily I don't have cause to say it out loud very often.
If you’re a rapper, sure.
Or a medievalist. It's probably not a million miles away from how middle English - think about 900CE-1300CE would have pronounced Ask
My partner and our youngest daughter say Noo when pronouncing the word new.
Also hear it a lot on broadcast media as well.
Am I wrong?
I was working with a company called Quay pharma and I spent quite a long time calling them “kway” pharma. I’d like to think it was because the word was out of context but really it’s because I’m an idiot.
similarly, working with a company called Visaq. Spent my first meeting there pronouncing it 'Visa-Queue" before realising they made contact lenses so had something to do with vision and it was actually pronounced Viz-ak.
clumsy name though.
clumsy name though
Its annoying working for these companies. Having people mispronounce or spell it all the time (not their fault usually) is bad but having to spend ages trying to explain your email address gets tiresome. I worked at a place with "at" in its name. "My email, yes, its nick at, that's the symbol at then at, that's the word at, then a dash, the symbol, hello, are you still there..."
“My email, yes, its nick at, that’s the symbol at then at, that’s the word at, then a dash, the symbol, hello, are you still there…”
our office manager who is often the first point of contact for new clients has a double barreled first name where both of those names have multiple common spellings. The number of times a day she has to spell out her full email address and sometimes explain which one is the hyphen, I wonder how many potential clients we have lost into the ether.
She's got an obvious last name since getting married, so that has shortened the process slightly.
I haven't waded through all seven pages, so apols if this has already been posted.
My email, yes, its nick at, that’s the symbol at then at, that’s the word at, then a dash, the symbol, hello, are you still there…”
"Nick at A T hyphen..."
If it's that much of a pain maybe do it the other way around, ask them for their address and mail them so they can reply. TBH I don't know why "exchanging addresses" isn't more commonplace, it halves the chance of getting cocked up.
our office manager who is often the first point of contact for new clients has a double barreled first name where both of those names have multiple common spellings.
"Multiple" might be a pain, but with a name with a common misspelling it can be added as an alias on an Exchange mailbox.
Halcyon.
I pronounce shitake incorrectly just for giggles.
Thats just one up from a pisstake, right?
Mickey < Piss < Shit ?
Shitakes and gigglakes?
“Nick at A T hyphen…”
is that nick@80- or nick@athyphen or nick@atea- or nick@eighty- etc
If it’s that much of a pain maybe...
It was easier to leave 🙂
The number of times a day she has to spell out her full email address
I used to work in an orgnanistion in the Highlands and quite a few groups I'd correspond with had their entire organisation's name, in Gaelic, as their domain name.... and spent a lot of time explaining it over the phone.
Mindful of that when I went back to being freelance rather than try and register a domain that related to me or my business I sought out the shortest chain of characters available which turned out to be one numeral, and two letters and I don't even bother putting my name in front of it so no risk of mis-spelling that. Easy - mail@***.co.uk. yes?
Well no - the number of people who'll write done the number as a word rather than the numeral is surprising but also one of the letters is 'L' which they jot down as 'l' then later type as'1'
So I have to dictate it s 'number* capital * capital *' even though its not case sensitive just so they write the letters down as capitals and then be able to read them correctly later. Quite as lot of talking for a string of three characters.
Look at all those chrees in the park!
It was easier to leave 🙂
Seems a bit of an overreaction if I'm honest.
I've only noticed the first r in 'turmeric' relatively recently
Carabiner. Cara-bee-ner or Cara-buy-ner?
our office manager who is often the first point of contact for new clients has a double barreled first name where both of those names have multiple common spellings.
Where I work has the relatively simple firstname.surname@[company].com format.
I work with a woman who has a triple-barreled surname... 🙄
And one of those names is not pronounced how it's spelt.
My partner and our youngest daughter say Noo when pronouncing the word new.
Also hear it a lot on broadcast media as well.
Am I wrong?
@giant_scum Sorry, yes I think you ARE indeed wrong. Plenty of people however appear to watch the television nooz (or at least say that they do) or read it on their phones/whatever
Carabiner. Cara-bee-ner or Cara-buy-ner?
Crab.
(it's -bee- )
Ca-NON-da-lay
Not Italian it turned out.
Nah it's Kara- bin - a .. doo doo do do do
My partner and our youngest daughter say Noo when pronouncing the word new.
Also hear it a lot on broadcast media as well.
Am I wrong?
Surely this is just variation in accents? When I was a teenager there was a spike in pronouncing it "noy" thanks to a sudden influx of Australian soaps.
People absorb accents from their surroundings, there's probably some sort of 'fitting in' evolutionary pack instinct or something at play.
Carabiner. Cara-bee-ner
On a biking theme, I've no idea how 'Topeak' should be pronounced.
Too-peek?
Top-eek?
Toe-peek?
EDIT: No doubt mentioned already
Surely this is just variation in accents? When I was a teenager there was a spike in pronouncing it “noy” thanks to a sudden influx of Australian soaps.
People absorb accents from their surroundings, there’s probably some sort of ‘fitting in’ evolutionary pack instinct or something at play.
Yes. But you know about as much about linguistics as most linguists know about website security. Convergence and divergence seem to be the technical words you are looking for. Also, a review of sociolinguistic journals will turn up thousands of papers about negotiation of identity, etc.
Surely this is just variation in accents?
Talking of accents that ****ing Essex English where the middle T in a word is omitted can get in the sea. Yes, Cinch advert, I'm looking at you.
Mo'or
Bri'ain
🤬
Yes. But you know about as much about linguistics as most linguists know about website security. Convergence and divergence seem to be the technical words you are looking for
Sure, I don't doubt you're correct on both counts. Was I wrong though? (Genuine question)
Yes, Cinch advert, I’m looking at you.
That's Rylan, innit?
Essex English where the middle T in a word is omitted
I thought that was the Islington glottal stop.
Mornington Crescent.
Very good Cougar.
Was I wrong though? (Genuine question)
You are right that people adapt their languages, but it's always a complex thing. We constantly adjust how we speak according to context, especially the identities of our interlocutors. We may adjust our speech to be more similar, signaling group solidarity, or we may adjust to highlight differences, to exclude an outsider. One of the functions of language is to convey information, but that's actually secondary to negotiation of identity. Before anyone is interested in the information we communicate, we have to assert ourselves as someone who is important enough to listen to. Bill Clinton was famous for being able to talk to anyone, he could adapt himself to any group and context. Donald Trump and Barak Obama were extremely skilled at talking to their supporters but the way they talked alienated a lot of other people. In Trump's case, that was deliberate, he signaled solidarity with his supporters by highlighting how different he was from his opponents.
Have we had mangetout (pronouned as 'man get out')??
It's MIS-chee-vus. Just letting everyone on the BBC know. Not mis-CHEE-vious.
Tabble lut instead of tablet.
My community was built by a large construction company called Vanke. Their name is on the precinct at the end, and people frequently use the company name for the housing.
I've been calling it "Van-kuh"
The locals are generally unable to say "V" and use "W" instead.
I can't tell if I'm pronouncing it correctly or not anymore. But don't feel able to use the local pronunciation without bursting out laughing.