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Old 02-24-2006, 11:22 AM   #31
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Mediancat, of course wooder sounds right to someone from Balamer.
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Old 02-24-2006, 11:25 AM   #32
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Right now I can't prounounce the Mandarin word for "understand". I have no problems with any English words. Except "commitment", that is.

I need to find a good source for Mandarin pin-yin, and figure out whether it is "ming pai" or "nin pai" or something entirely different.
ming bai (both rising tones) so my wife says.
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Old 02-24-2006, 11:26 AM   #33
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as an aside, I can pronounce all English words perfectly, by definition.
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Old 02-24-2006, 11:56 AM   #34
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taciturn

Can NEVER get this one right.
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Old 02-24-2006, 01:05 PM   #35
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For some reason hyperbole gives me problems.

I always pronounce it hyper-bowl. Probably because I had never heard it spoken aloud, and never looked to closely at the pronunciation key in the dictionary.
holy shit. I thought that too up until i read your post and then had to go and check for myself
Holy shit holy shit. Learn something new every day. Sounds wrong though, like saying carafe as cara-fay.
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I have to remind myself to pronounce "probably". It always comes out "prolly".
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Old 02-24-2006, 01:13 PM   #37
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For some reason hyperbole gives me problems.

I always pronounce it hyper-bowl. Probably because I had never heard it spoken aloud, and never looked to closely at the pronunciation key in the dictionary.
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holy shit. I thought that too up until i read your post and then had to go and check for myself
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Holy shit holy shit. Learn something new every day. Sounds wrong though, like saying carafe as cara-fay.
I remember having this feeling when I first heard the correct pronunciation of epitome. I'd assumed it was eppy-tome.
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Old 02-24-2006, 01:13 PM   #38
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taciturn

Can NEVER get this one right.
I always pronounce it tah-kih-turn, since that is how it is pronounced in Latin. Actually, I end up pronouncing a lot of words like they would be in Latin when not thinking about it.
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anthropomorphise

unless i really put the emphasis on the "thropo" part it comes out "anthro fuh more pies" or something like that.

which i guess would be defined as the act of ascribing human traits to confections or something.

also, no idea how to pronounce "ignominy"

is it IG nuh mini

or ig NOM ini

or IG NO mini

or what?

i dunno.
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I remember having this feeling when I first heard the correct pronunciation of epitime. I'd assumed it was eppy-tome.
Epitome. Actually, for me, it was the other way around. I knew epitome before I knew how it was pronounced. Likewise with facetious.
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