WCH

I work at a deli counter, and we sell cheese. One of the cheeses we occasionally sell is Saint Morgan -- I, of course, recognising that it's French, pronounce it properly in French, (something closer to San Moguh, because while all the English sounds are still there, they're quiet). None of my coworkers have any idea what the hell I'm saying if I refer to it as that...

It always irks me that soem people don't even make an attempt to pronounce foreign names correctly. Like, the Norweigan cheese, Jarlsberg. The j is a glide, not an affricate, yet one of my coworkers always says it wrong. Getting it wrong once I understand, but he should know by now how to say it... I've said it in front of him dozens of times, but still he says it wrong.

WilliamB

Worchestershire is impossible. So everytime I have to say it I pronounce it like Bugs Bunny always did: "Woysta-shista-shista-shiya".

I can't say Antibiotic. I either say "Antee-bee-otic", or stammer out "Anti-bi-otic" in an incredibly clumsy and slow fashion, pausing after each syllable.

I can't make sense of Hesperides. Luckily, it's not exactly a word that's going to come up frequently in conversation. When I read it I hear it in my noggin alternately as "Hess-peer-ah-dees, "Hess-perr-ah-dees", or "Hess-per-eye-dz."

I'm embarrassed when saying French words aloud, even though I can do it properly. I can't even force myself to pronounce 'croissant' correctly when I'm with other people. I will say "Kroy-saant" and quickly apologize for mispronouncing it.

And I've always thought there is just something wrong with the word "lozenge". It's a silly word and I refuse to use it. Look at it. It's a silly word.

MollyMac

No. Actually where you are is the WORLD wide web so your spellings are no more "correct" than are other varieties of the ENGLISH language.

Kassiana

Nope. No webs in my computer chair, though there is a budgie and a cockatiel here. If anything, I'm in the Aussie Animal Planet.

They are correct American English spellings. People who use other spellings in American English are wrong, no?

(I went to law school. I know how to argue. Don't tempt me...)

Berthold

Which is actually deplorable, since the substance and the name came from Europe. Metals, if they have Latin names, generally end on "-ium" (exception: Lanthanum). Helium is the other exception (not being a metal), because it was discovered spectroscopically and named before it was isolated.

BeetleJuice

I can't pronounce three, I've got trouble pronouncing any English word that begins our ends with th but three is the worst

Preno

Regularly and particularly are both evil.

MollyMac

Is it worse than "thrust"?

I taught English as a foreign language and would get the most (sadistic) pleasure from watching students try to get their tongues back in their mouths in time to pronounce the 's'. Often they couldn't manage it and said "thutht" instead, which was hilarious to watch. :devil1:

rcressl

I just found out last night that "mutton" is pronounced like "button" with an M, rather than "moo-tahn".

I usually screw up and say "mott-if" for "motif" and then get confused. I was pronouncing macabre wrong until I read this thread. And everyone says I say iron wrong ["i-ron"], but I think they're wrong for just slurring it into one syllable "iiiern". Then there's something about the name "Greg", I guess I say it like "Craig" but with a G, which is apparently wrong. And "rural" is a hard one to say. And "particularly".

I just suck at pronunciation.

Oh, and what was it about sherbert? Is it really sherbet?

SkyDancer_0202

:rolling: :thumbs: