Pronunciation clinic

[poohbear1029]

I've been thinking about this thread and the most annoying one I know of is: when people pronounce the g at the end of words like "long" is not "lonG" and "ring" is not "rinG". The g is silent.

A few others I thought of:
"Especially" does not have a K sound in it! It cracks me up to hear it pronounced like Ekspecially. Espresso is the same-I pronounce it es-presso, not Expresso (DH does that).
Words with an "st" sound. I've heard people say, "Shtreet" instead of "street" and "Shtraight" instead of "straight."
Names like Darrel & Cheryl do not have D's on the end of them and when I was a kid it used to drive me nuts when the kids would pronounce my sibs names Darreld and Cheryld.

Bury is another tricky word-around here we say it like "berry" but my college advisor used to go beserk when we'd say it like that. It's "Burr y" (he was from PA) and he'd correct us every time we said it like "berry."

I always wanted to be an English teacher. I've had way too many posts and too much fun with this thread!!

Oh, no, no, no.....the worst is when people drop the ING.......as in:

Comin' and Goin'

Just sounds silly!!!

oooh.....and the K thing, I totally agree with ----- especially when someone says "acks"........as in "I acks him not to do that again" Makes them sound very educated!

 

[Pugsley]

I don't usually have an opinion on how people pronounce their own name, but one in particular bugs me- the weather guy on CNN Sean McLaughlin. I would pronounce that with the Irish influence: shawn mick locklin. But he says seen mick lafflin.

That drives me crazy too. Every time he comes on we look at each other, roll our eyes and say "SEEN!" (think Jerry Seinfeld saying NEWMAN).

Anaheimgirl, I agree about EYEtalian -- it makes no sense. My dh says it that way and it drives me nuts, especially since I'm Italian. I'm surprised my dad hasn't smacked him! And no matter how many times he hears it the right way, he's not about to change. He probably thinks WE'RE saying it wrong.

 

[AnaheimGirl]

I agree about EYEtalian -- it makes no sense. My dh says it that way and it drives me nuts, especially since I'm Italian. I'm surprised my dad hasn't smacked him! And no matter how many times he hears it the right way, he's not about to change. He probably thinks WE'RE saying it wrong.

Then you might appreciate this one, too. DH says gondola "gon-DOH-la", heavy, heavy emphasis on the DOH. With a father from Italy, I know it's pronounced "GON-duh-la". This one is more common than EYE-talian, my dh seems to think he's the one pronouncing it right, too.

 

[BelleMcNally]

I've been thinking about this thread and the most annoying one I know of is: when people pronounce the g at the end of words like "long" is not "lonG" and "ring" is not "rinG". The g is silent.

I dated a guy once who did that...drove me up the wall.

 

[Bob NC]

OK, I grew up in Mass and moved to NC.

My first trip to the grocery store to get deli meat stumped me. The cashier asked if I had the "Bold ham". "Excuse me?"..."Is that the bold ham?". Now I'm looking at her like she has 3 heads. I could not for the life of me figure out that she meant "boiled" ham.

I go to the ice cream shop and order a sundae. The girl is preparing it and asks me if I want "wet nuts". "Excuse me?" "Do you want wet nuts?" After glancing down and around and questioning, I discover wet nuts are nuts in syrup.

I'm at the video store carrying a movie when an older gentleman came up to me, pointed to the movie in my hand and says, "Is that any count?" Hmmm, "Excuse me", "Is that any count?" Ya ever been in a situation where you ask someone to repeat something like 3 times and you are at a complete and total loss? I knew the words he was saying, but I couldn't discern how they were strung together in a fashion that made any sense. Turned out I might have understood if he had said, "Is that movie any good?"

I worked with a guy who had to leave early one day to "Carry his momma to her doctors appointment". Ya think he physically hoisted her and walked to the Dr.?

Anyone that has to do anything is "fixin" to do it. "I'm fixin to carry my momma to the doctor".

The doctors office is usually "over yonder". I thought "Yonder" was the name of a nearby town. Apparantly it isn't nearby though, because it's frequently a "fur piece" to get there.

If you get pulled over by a cop on the way somewhere, the "sherf" might ask to see your "licenses".

Oh, and running into several grown men every day carrying around a styrofoam cup full of their own spit is wicked pissah.

 

[monarchsfan16]

My mom is from northern NH. She says arent for aunt. Even I can say aunt, and I've been heavily influenced by all the Mass transplants (and we won't get into what my Mass roommate is doing to my speach here at school).
She also says door yard for that area right around the front door I've only evah (sorry had to do that) heard her and my uncle use that one.

 

[KarenAylwood]

One thing that drives me absolutely BONKERS is when people say "SHER-BERT" for sherbet.

People.

Please.

Have you even looked at the word? Where does that second R come from??

The reason it's spelled sherbet is because it's pronounced SHER - BET.

Say it with me now... SHER - BET. Good job!

Now I've heard of silent letters, but not imaginary ones.



And my advisor always says "Warsh" instead of "wash." It doesn't bother me as much as it cracks me up

That's all I can think of right now... I'm sure there's more... I'm pretty easy to annoy


Edited to add: Oh wait! I thought of another one. And I've got a question for you all. My DBF was born in Oregon and moved to VA... his entire family calls a broom a "sweeping brush". I swear they just made it up but they think it's a real term.

Anyone from out west call a broom a sweeping brush??

 

[Pugsley]

I've been thinking about this thread and the most annoying one I know of is: when people pronounce the g at the end of words like "long" is not "lonG" and "ring" is not "rinG". The g is silent.

OK, I'm confused. Are you saying you pronounce long LON and ring RIN ???

 

[JennyMominRI]

OK, I'm confused. Are you saying you pronounce long LON and ring RIN ???

I'm confused on this one also

 

[JennyMominRI]

OK, I'm confused. Are you saying you pronounce long LON and ring RIN ???

I'm confused on this one also

 

[#1MMFan]

I know what the poster means...the g should be silent, but you often hear people saying.. "long-G" or "ring-G". Also you hear folks saying "draw-ring" for drawing. Gets on my nerves.

 

[#1MMFan]

oh and the people that say "haitch" for the letter "H" (aitch). It doesn't need the H at the beginning of the pronounciation - where did you learn that one??? LOL

 

[Pugsley]

I know what the poster means...the g should be silent, but you often hear people saying.. "long-G" or "ring-G"

OK thanks. That's what I thought she might have meant -- the G is not silent, but it's also not an extra syllable!

 

[dcentity2000]

I think she means when people pronounce "long" as "lon-gah"



Rich::

 

[Christine]

oh and the people that say "haitch" for the letter "H" (aitch). It doesn't need the H at the beginning of the pronounciation - where did you learn that one??? LOL

All the Australians that I know say it that way.

 

[Syrreal]

Just thought of something to add. Here is Massachusetts(although not as much as it once was, from what I understand-I'm from New Mexico) they will drop the 'r' where it needs to be and place an 'r' where it doesn't need to be. For instance: it's a cah, and an idear.

Actually, that's the first thing they teach you if you're trying to learn New England dialect (for acting)


My biggest pet peeve is NUCLEAR nu-cle-ar
this is NOT nucular <as some have been saying it> There is only 1 U. I could even accept new-clear... but not nucular.

 

[MickeysGirl]

I think the funniest thing that my DH says is "kitchen roll" and "toilet roll". Ummm...huh? It turns out he means paper towels and toilet paper. I don't know where he picked that up...he's lived all over the world.

 

[pooh4evr]

I also live is Saint Louis Missouri not Snt Loose Missoura like my MIL says (from southern MO) they also call every moving thing a vehicle, eyetalian restaurants, and they usedtocould do alot of things. When we are visiting we always have to be places by dark or dark 30 (30 min after dark) and everything is on the other side of town.

In STL we drink soda and eat barbecue (anything cooked on the grill outside) use realators, eat sherbert, and drive on rout farty far (44)
There are other but I can't remember right now!

 

[#1MMFan]

I think the funniest thing that my DH says is "kitchen roll" and "toilet roll". Ummm...huh? It turns out he means paper towels and toilet paper. I don't know where he picked that up...he's lived all over the world.

We say both over here. Buying some toilet rolls, ... a roll of toilet paper.. heh, makes sense to me! LOL

 

[Alice28]

Has this been mentioned----it's pronounced OFFEN folks- NOT OFF-TEN.