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braces_for_impact · 02-24-2006, 01:18 PM

I have noticed that a lot of people (including myself) pronounce sherbet as "sure-bert". It was just what I learned growing up in the Midwest.

Leah · 02-24-2006, 01:23 PM

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I might even be pronouncing it without an accent, but whenever that word comes up, especially when teaching the pronounciation, :blush: ... it's just not my word.

Chris Weimer · 02-24-2006, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by braces_for_impact

I have noticed that a lot of people (including myself) pronounce sherbet as "sure-bert". It was just what I learned growing up in the Midwest.

The AHD says that Sherbert is a common and variant. I don't have any Sherbert now, but when I go to the store here in a bit I'll see if it says Sherbet or Sherbert.

02-24-2006, 01:39 PM

Re hyperbole/hyper-bowl and their ilk: As the boy in "How Green was my Valley" said when he pronounced misled as mizzled, there's no shame in having read more words than you've heard pronounced.

I can't think of any words right now. In fact I'm quite good at words and can even pronounce llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch.
However, I can rarely say the phrase "few and far between", it always comes out as "far and few between".

Stormlight · 02-24-2006, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Enai

Elizabeth (in English; in German I have no problem). Thank dog I know no English native speaker of that name.

Enai

I know what you mean. Elizabeth is damn hard to pronounce correctly! Thesaurus is another of those words. Oh, and laboratory. :banghead:

Cynical-Chick · 02-24-2006, 02:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Mickie

Holy shit holy shit. Learn something new every day. Sounds wrong though, like saying carafe as cara-fay.

Probably because it's "ca-raf."

GoodLittleAtheist · 02-24-2006, 04:16 PM

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I have no idea why either. I have to slow my speech down whenever I use it.

LoneReaction · 02-24-2006, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Gooch's dad

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.

I failed my chinese many times and I don't read it, but I'm chinese and I can tell you it's Ming (2nd tone or whatever you call that) Bai(3rd tone).

grendelfreak · 02-24-2006, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by GoodLittleAtheist

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I have no idea why either. I have to slow my speech down whenever I use it.

I have the same problem, I have a tendancy to put a L in front of the m

Although I have trouble pronouncing most wordsposted here, my personal hatred in minimum, I can say onamatapea (sp?) but minimum is a pain in the arse.

BTW what is so hard about Elizabeth?

NZSkep · 02-24-2006, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Piscez

Yeah I used to think macabre was pronounced "mah-kah-bray".

Worchester(shire) is a baffler, but I learned it long ago.

it's worcester(shire) sauce

pronounce 'wuster(sheer)'

(I'm originally from Gloucester(shire) pronounced 'gloster'(sheer))

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02-24-2006, 01:18 PM	#41
braces_for_impact Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: In a nondescript, black helicopter. Posts: 6,637	I have noticed that a lot of people (including myself) pronounce sherbet as "sure-bert". It was just what I learned growing up in the Midwest.

02-24-2006, 01:23 PM	#42
Leah Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Germany Posts: 3,280	- worry - I might even be pronouncing it without an accent, but whenever that word comes up, especially when teaching the pronounciation, :blush: ... it's just not my word.

02-24-2006, 01:39 PM	#44
cajela Guest Posts: n/a	Re hyperbole/hyper-bowl and their ilk: As the boy in "How Green was my Valley" said when he pronounced misled as mizzled, there's no shame in having read more words than you've heard pronounced. I can't think of any words right now. In fact I'm quite good at words and can even pronounce llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio gogogoch. However, I can rarely say the phrase "few and far between", it always comes out as "far and few between".

02-24-2006, 04:16 PM	#47
GoodLittleAtheist Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: the internets Posts: 1,198	cumulative I have no idea why either. I have to slow my speech down whenever I use it.

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