JohnKleeb
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:03 PM
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Words you always pronounce wrong |
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Carnagie and Badnarik. :shrug: ok those are proper nouns.
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:05 PM
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because is more fun than furniture!
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:06 PM
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2. Most all of them -- I'm originally from Oklahoma |
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:08 PM
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6. hah I am from Virginia |
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and I say the strangest stuff, I say eh like a Canadian but I often say y'all like a southerner.
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:09 PM
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I resemble that remark. ;)
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:07 PM
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3. Oh dear lord, there's so many |
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Linoleum...rhinocerouseseseseseses (whatever the plural is, I can't stop)...rural...I basically have verbal retardation about half the time. :7
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:07 PM
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4. Look! A beautiful nucular foilage ! |
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Being a French-Canadian,I'm sure that if I had a conversation in English I would mispronounce a lot of worlds...Except those two.
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:21 PM
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12. Couldn't be any worse that Jean Cretien |
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A country that has two official languages, and a Prime Minister that speaks neither.
Of course, now you have Paul Martin, the massage therapist of the Shortbus Dictator...
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:30 PM
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:08 PM
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For some reason this one never seems to fit in my mouth. Too bad since it is a word I need a lot, it always comes out wrong. :hi: John!
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:09 PM
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:33 PM
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1. The stock of songs, plays, operas, readings, or other pieces that a player or company is prepared to perform. 2. The class of compositions in a genre: has excellent command of the chanteuse repertoire. 3. The range or number of skills, aptitudes, or special accomplishments of a particular person or group.
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:34 PM
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18. oh I can see why, since youre in music |
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Only instrument I ever knew how to use was the recorder, and I always would lose it in elementary school, heh those were the days.
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:08 PM
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7. This is very embarrassing but in high school I pronounced perturbed |
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as Pur TA bed. My high school boyfriend never let me forget! He even named his cat Purtabed.
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:08 PM
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no matter which way i say it, someone tells me i am wrong :-(
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:10 PM
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10. my stepmom always says "gararge" it cracks me up |
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i ask her "how many R's are in garage again, Jodee?" ;)
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:10 PM
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supposed to - I am very fond of "post to" even though I know it's incorrect.
I also tend to pronounce "elevator" as "lift" :7
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:29 PM
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hegemony armoire sesquicentenial
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:31 PM
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Wed Dec-15-04 01:08 AM
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31. being at a school that just celebrated its 150th anniversary, |
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I can tell you that sesquicentenial isn't an easy word for ANYONE to say.
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:30 PM
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I always have the accent on the wrong syllable
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:35 PM
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I've had to train myself to say it without an "r" (as in: "warsh") Southern accent thing.
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:43 PM
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20. I feel left out.. I can pronounce everything |
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but as a kid I couldn't say aluminum. It came out more like aluminumnum.
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:48 PM
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23. hah I think thats how the europeans say it |
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:45 PM
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I always say that wrong...
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Tue Dec-14-04 11:48 PM
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22. I have always pronounced "bury" as "bury" instead of as "berry." |
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Edited on Tue Dec-14-04 11:49 PM by Redleg
I always will pronounce it that way until they change the spelling.
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Wed Dec-15-04 12:28 AM
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24. Anesthetist always trips me up. |
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For some reason, I can pronounce anesthesiologist, but not anesthetist.
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Wed Dec-15-04 12:32 AM
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25. We mispronounce some words on purpose... |
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we always pronounce certain infamous words the way our little guys said them when they were two years old...
Hat = Hap Gloves = Glubs Snow = 'no (wanna go play in the no ?) Tortilla = torteewuh Probably = probly
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Wed Dec-15-04 12:32 AM
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I like to say PEE-CAN - drives Texans CRAZY! :D
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Wed Dec-15-04 01:03 AM
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29. oh I think I would do that |
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Wed Dec-15-04 03:34 AM
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35. That'll do it...IT'S PUH-CAHN! |
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from a loving texan who couldn't resist.
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Wed Dec-15-04 12:34 AM
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Wed Dec-15-04 12:37 AM
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28. February...I tend to pronouce it Febuary and so it seems does |
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Wed Dec-15-04 01:07 AM
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Wed Dec-15-04 01:09 AM
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I also don't know if that's how you spell it.
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Wed Dec-15-04 01:22 AM
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Being from Missouri, I say "warsh" for "wash" unless I can consciously catch myself. This sucks as I work and go to school at Washington University.
Also, like most people, I read at a higher level of vocab than normal speech, and apparently I'm not great at intuitively figuring out pronunciation. So by the time I actually hear a word used in conversation, I've had this screwed-up mental pronunciation for it in my head for a while (years in some cases), and have probably said it out loud incorrectly before. This has tripped me up with "aspartame" ("ass-per-tame" in Nicolespeak), "exacerbate" ("excerbate"), and clitoris (I'm actually still not sure what the real pronunciation is for that one), and others.
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Wed Dec-15-04 03:30 AM
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I'm from New Jersey, and I'm told by outsiders that it's not "CAW-FEE". Oh well, I don't drink the stuff anyway.
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Wed Dec-15-04 03:36 AM
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Edited on Wed Dec-15-04 03:36 AM by fleabert
Per-in-eee-um or pear-ah-nee-um
I never remember which is correct, and end up saying both and defining for clarification. (I always overdo it)
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