I’ve always pronounced the word “Southern” to rhyme with howthurn. I know most people say it like “suthurn” instead. I didn’t realize that the way I pronounce it is considered weird until recently!
Agate. Apparently I pronounce it the British way rather than the American way because I had read the word many times while never heard it spoken aloud.
I didn’t know what this was so I had to Google it. Then I had to look up a video of how to pronounce it. Doesn’t seem like a word that many people would know you’re pronouncing incorrectly unless it involves their hobby or field of study, but maybe I’m just dumb or something.
how many syllables do you use?
I pronounce dragon as dragòn, if you know what I mean.
I am the odd one out accent-wise, I am a woman with what would be called a Kiwi accent in a place where everyone else speaks with either a neutral American accent or a New England accent and one of the most common first questions people ask me is if I can say “envelope” for them.
The kiwi accent is far better known for the way they say “six”… not sure what’s special about the way they pronounce envelope?
They also love to entertain people on their deck. Sometimes even invite the whole neighbourhood to come check out their front deck.
Edit: further information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0
American southerner with a tarheel drawl, I say "ON-vuh-lope.
What’s interesting in the way kiwis day envelope?
Cape CANNA VERR ALL = Cape Canaveral
Why? Because I can.
Since that Bob’s burgers episode it’s been Tattoo but said “Tuh-too”
It’s Helico-Pter not Heli-Copter. It’s a greek word from hélikos (screw, spiral, winding) and pterón (wing).
And since I’m fun at parties, I consequently pronounce it with a slight pause before and stress on the P and not a miniscule pause after the I and a slight stress on the O.
I cop it from my friends and family for the way I say “baloon”
I say bloon with no a sound.
I think it stems from learning to spell it wrong as a child I never put the a in there to begin with and no one corrected me and by the time I realised it was to late
I also can’t pronounce “regularly” to save my damn life.
When I say it i add syllables to the thing I think.
Reg u ar ly
I say bloon with no a sound.
dart-throwing intensifies
I still don’t know how you pronounce it. Im not sure myself but when my dad had a headache he would say he needed an assburn.
Hehe, aspirin? Prounounced like “ass-per-in”?
eyup. we always joked that getting that would not make his headache better but it might feel better by comparison.
I tend to say Wensleydale, Tuesleydale and Thursleydale as the days of the week. It started as a thing I said to myself because I found it funny, but occasionally I’ll slip and say one of them out loud when I’m tired.
My wife made fun of me the other day for pronouncing the h in homage. I quickly got my revenge when dictionary.com offered my way as the first pronunciation.
Oh-mage is fancier I will admit.
How about Chipotle as cheepotole
I like to pronounce Numeric like Tumeric
UK English spells and pronounces that spice as “turmeric” (so the first syllable is pronounced like “turn” without the N), so I’m now imagining you saying nurmeric
.ǝdoɹnƎ uᴉ ƃuᴉʌᴉl uɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ uɐ ɯɐ ᴉ ʇnq .ǝɯᴉʇ ǝɥʇ ll∀
Australia is so hellbent on making words sound cute by shortening everything. It makes me giggle even when they are mad.
The sprinkles on bread is adorable
Fairy bread is the best.
My wife has to be careful when picking child names because I will immediately Australianise it to something stupid.
I pronounce spigot as “spicket” but that’s normal where I’m from.
My mom had a couple of weird ones that took me a while to unlearn:
Stipend = “stipp-ind”
Antibiotics = “antee-BEE-otics”I say anna-bee-otics. My father is a veterinarian, and would abbreviate antibiotics to anna-bees when speaking with techs about prescriptions. This affected how he’d say antibiotics, and I spent so much time with him over the years I picked up the habit.
It’s pronounced quickly, where if I say it properly I spend conscious thought saying an-tie-bye-otics.
Not me, but I know a bondage instructor who pronounces “bondage” like you would in French.
I think if you’re teaching something you should know the pronunciations. Didn’t take long to find other stuff wrong with him. My wife and I quickly left and sought our education elsewhere.
This makes me think of the State Farm commercial showing football players in a ballet class. “Boon-dlay…sah-vey…”
