Anxiety said:

it's always gonna be waller to me...I figure as long as my spelling and writing skills are ok, I can kinda have a pass for sounding like a total hillbilly..

roodboi said:

I HATE when people say thee-ATER. I say Thee-uh-ter

NoodleSoup said:

Excellent! Except for the garrij!
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Ocean said:

Oi rickun!

NoodleSoup said:

that is true.

Anxiety said:

I pronounce you dead. In your heart.

NoodleSoup said:

huh

Ocean said:

An Aussie I knew was always saying 'I reckon!'

NoodleSoup said:

what can i say? when it's springtime in alaska, it's 40 below.

The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.

I'm gonna fall asleep tonight watching "My Fair Lady".

It's nearly 11. Good night, all!

Anxiety said:

Well I'm off to sunbathe.

I say:

"änt" instead of "ant" for aunt.

"mā-zhər" instead of "me-zhər" (measure)

"trā-zhər" instead of "tre-zhər" (treasure)

and like a good midwesterner, I pronounce "wh-" as "hw-". (See BlackAdder's post.)

and frequently mispronouce all sorts of words. I know tons of obscure words from reading/grad school, but have no clue how to pronouce them. (I was awful at phonetics/sounding out words too.) The guy I used to share an office with was an English major and would laugh at me all the time.


I used to say:

ir-ACE-able instead of ir-ass-ible (irasible)

clan-des-TINE instead of clan-DES-tin (clandestine)

until he corrected me.


Edit: the boxes are supposed to be upside-down 'e's...I don't know why they won't post...
[Edited 9/29/08 21:14pm]

Anxiety said:

It's not a word I say often, but I would say, "ketch-up" not "cAtch-up".



Ooh...often, I say that off-ten, not 'off-en'.

Algae:

I say al-jee, but my wife and her family say al-gee (with the soft "g")

I say (correctly!) "aitch" for the letter H, while most Aussies I come across say "Haitch". That pisses me all the way off! As much as I rant about it saying that "aitch" is the word in the English dictionary used for the letter H, and a word like "haitch" or "heytch" does not exist, it doesn't seem to matter. Their argument is that "aitch" does not indicate the way the letter sounds, and that the way the letter is pronounced should start with an "h" sound. Well what about F? Feff?! N? Nenn? Worse- W? Wubbleyou?

I say zee-bra, but many others say zeb-ra.

I say app-re-she-ate, not app-re-see-ate.

I say ki-LAH-meter, not KILL-o-meter.

DevotedPuppy said:

Same here!



I say both. Coming to Australia is confusing my pronunciation big time!

Moonbeam said:

how are you going with "schooner o' new thanks luv" ?

momentofbliss said:

I guess it's a small victory that I recognize "how are you going" as "how are you doing", and a small defeat that I still spell the word as "recognize". And it's an even larger failure for me to understand the meaning of "schooner o' new thanks luv".

Some more:

I say sked-jule, not shed-jule.

I say day-byoo, not day-boo.

Tooz-day, not Tyooz-day.

I say on-o-mott-o-pee-a, not on-o-matt-o-pee-a.

Moonbeam said:

Anxiety said:

can't you just say trivi-AHL

BlackAdder7 said:

picturesque

I say picture-skew instead of picture-esk

Lammastide said:

All 3 of those words rhyme for me!

ZombieKitten said:

you're weird

BlueZebra said:

it's for my own amusement mostly

Dour does not rhyme with sour.

Measure rhymes with Pleasure. It's really funny to me when some Americans say "Maaay-sure".
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[Edited 9/30/08 9:42am]

And another thing Yanks:

"The moon is shining on the roof."

You don't say

"The mun is shining on the ruff"

So pronounce roof correctly!

markpeg said:

I have never heard anyone pronounce measure that way.

Genesia said:

Yes it does!