Pronounciation of words

[WRESTLINGFAN]

Do you pronounce words the way that most people say or do you pronounce them the fancy way

some examples
theater, thee-ay-ter
tomato. to-mahhh-to
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[East Side Dave]

I sure ain't no elitist, WrestlingFan, and I sure ain't no fancy word pronunciator!! I plan out the consenants and vowells!! I organize my "t's" and "th's"!! I speak CAREFULLY and SLOWLY because that's the proper way and because I'm also half-retarded!

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[SatCam]

I think only Jersey Rich and BlackJesus pronounce words these way...

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[Mike Teacher]

Oh this is totally wrong and it has to do with spelling, not pronunication, but Mark Twain, I *think* came up with something for people who obsessed on spelling errors:

"It is a Sad Man who can only find One Way to spell a Word."

That's way off I'm sure.

Tall James, you know quotes and stuff! Step up!

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[Snoogans]

what the fuck is with Onvelope

its a damn Envelope


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[SatCam]

Yea, and god damn all you people who use koopons!

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[Arienette]

one that bugs me is ahhhhnt instead of aunt.

Yea, and god damn all you people who use koopons! as opposed to... ?

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[JimBeam]

I'd assume " que-pons ", but I prefer " koopons ".

And shouldnt it be " cowpons " :

coupons = cow-pons AS couch = cow-ch

This message was edited by JimBeam on 3-20-04 @ 3:12 PM

[WRESTLINGFAN]

I had a professor in college who would say raaaaahhhhther instead of rather

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[Mike Teacher]

Shit I can't find one of my Book Of Lists [remember those books?] but one of them had a list of some of the most mis-pronounced words, I think some were:

Data

Gratis

Caribbean [is that spelled right?]

ugh, gotta find that.

I have a brit friend who pronounces the first "r" in February, and it sounds so cool, and so...correct. And it's sounds like only three syllables; ugh, how to describe it phoneticlly:

FEB-Rer-Ree I guess. you'd have to hear it.

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[CYYYFYYY]

RA-diator gets on my nerves

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[TooCute]

Who the hell says kewpons? I HATE that. Ron Popiel does that and I want to STRANGLE him!!! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

coupons coupons coupons!!! you know, think you CUT (coup!) out! COUPON!!!!!!!! You don't spell kewpie doll "COUPIE" doll, do you? You don't go to COU GARDENS, do you????? ARGH!

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[TooCute]

one that bugs me is ahhhhnt instead of aunt.


I say that. I think it's a New England thing, or at least so I've been told. But I mean, aunt is spelled aunt to be pronounced aunt, right? Otherwise wouldn't you have an ant??

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[WRESTLINGFAN]

President Bush still says Nuke-you-lar instead of Nuclear

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[A.J.]

Gro-SIR-ies vs. Gro-SURE-ies. The latter drives me nuts.

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[JimBeam]

Yeah but TooCute you also dont :

" coont " when you want to " count "

cou-nt = cou-pon

An unless you are Canadian you dont say :

" aboot " when you wanna say " a-bou-t "

Lets face it, that " ou " comination is inconsistent to say the least.

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[Arienette]

what about "houston"? if you're in texas it's HEW-STON, if you're in the village, it's HOUSE-TON. it's not exactly what we've been talking about, but it's weird.

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[Mike Teacher]

was at a party and some drunk who knew nothing og things South of the Border picked up a bottle of Tequila's and seriously said: "Joe's Cuervo? What kind of name is that?"

The folks who overheard him? As Triumph would say; 'They were not Kind...'

Also heard "Batch" a couple of times in the Music Stores Sheet Music sections. Instead of, well, if you don't know...



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[JimBeam]

You also have the regional pronunciations.
In the north its :

" pee-can " " New Or-leens "

In the south its :

" peck-an " " New Or-lins "

For " chocolate " do you say :

" chalk-let " or " "chock-let "

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[Snoogans]

In the south its :

" peck-an " " New Or-lins "

in the south, its Nawlins

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[JimBeam]

Nah thats only if you are trying to fit-in ( tourist ) or you are way too pretentious ( tourist now living in New Orleans ).

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[Snoogans]

or apparently your in georgia. cause when i was there, it sounded like nawlins, same in NC

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[JimBeam]

No self respecting person that was born/raised in New Orleans, or for that matter, Louisiana, would say it like that.


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[JimBeam]

What about when people say " War-shington " as opposed to " Wa-shington " ??
Thats annoying.

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[Snoogans]

i never said anything about louisianna, and if thats what you meant by south, you were a little broad on your statement

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[JimBeam]

True.

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[ADF]

"Joe's Cuervo" is the funniest thing I've heard or seen since the last ten minutes of <i>Old School</i>.

Hey, bartender.. I'd like a margarita.. but don't use just <i>any</i> tequila.. get me some of that Joe's Cuervo.. only top shelf for me, mister.

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Puma is technically pronounced pYOUma, according to the dictonary, but only one person I know of pronounces it that way.

My brother in law says "ax" instead of ASK.

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[FUNKMAN]

my daughter tells me i say 'soder' instead of 'soda'

one word that bugs me is 'pizzeria' why the heck do they change the 'a' to an 'e'... keep the fucking 'a' in there... one day i pronounced it like it looks 'pizz-ear-ia' and the guy looked at me funny...

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[SatCam]

Well I'm sorry that all of you say "koo pons" instead of "kew pons".

I'll just take this rowte home.

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[CrinkleCrinkle]

Don and Mike made a career out of acting like mispronouncing words = humor. Fridee instead of Friday and so on. Thankfully I haven't heard those assholes in a while so I forgot all the other stupid shit they did.

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[SatCam]

I think I'll drive my Jag-u-are home!

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[Arienette]

I think I'll drive my Jag-u-are home!
hah. the first five times i heard that commerical, i couldn't figure out what the hell she was saying.

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[FUNKMAN]

" pfister "


i think someone made this up just to mess with people...

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[GwEnYpOo]

me too! the british also say ro-day-oh , instead of ro-dee-oh

i also don't like bahhhhhth , that annoys me


when my mom says kew-pons ,it's all i can do to keep from choking her





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[Tazz]

It's "ant" (aunt). I HATE hearing people say "ahhhhhnt". We always used "ant" and somehow my sister has started using "ahhhnt" and cheering for the Patriots. Someone needs to tell her we are much closer to NY then Boston.

Also, it's "Koopon" (coupon). "Cewpon makes me want to kill.

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