Or "Thijs". (I think it's like "Tayce".)Originally Posted by 3LockBox
Or "Thijs". (I think it's like "Tayce".)
Nevada may be the king of mispronounced names. We have a town called Verdi, named for Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. Locals insist on pronouncing it Vur-dye. We have another town, site of the first Mormon settlement in Nevada, called Genoa, named for the city in Italy. Locals insist on putting the accent on the second syllable. Juh-NO-uh. The name "Nevada" itself, from the Spanish "Sierra Nevada," meaning "snow-covered mountain range," is deliberately mispronounced with the first "a" as in cat or bad and the second "a" as "uh." Nevaaaaduh.
Let's not get started on Worcestershire...
Or Leicester.
Or Louisville, KY.
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Who says that wrong??
I've heard everything from "Loo-iss-ville" to "Loo-eey-ville" to the locals' "Loo-ville."
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
If you live here, it's LOO-uh-vul
Well, FWIW, there is a Wooster, Ohio.
Or "N'awlins."
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
to me, a couch is a long piece of cushiony furniture to sit on. Davenport played for a SF Giants when I was a kid.
My wife went to Boston on a business trip once. She found out quickly that Peabody, MA is pronounced 'PEE-bdee'. that was several years ago and we still joke about it.
You're right, now that I think about it.If you live here, it's LOO-uh-vul
How do the locals pronounce Wilkes-Barre? In Vermont we have the town of Barre (like "berry")...which always seemed confusing due to "barre chords"...
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"Wilks Barry"
Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
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Well, Bostonians have their own dialect altogether.
On a related note, I find it somewhat troubling that, here in the US, we have so many reality shows that have subtitles for people who are, apparently, speaking English.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
I don't really understand why Americans pronounce Z "Zee". As far as I'm aware, that's the only country in the world that does so. I've spoken to some who were absolutely mystified at my pronunciation ("Zed"), and had no idea that so much of the world pronounces it that way.
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Why is the word "everybody" pronounced "everybuddy" and not "every body (bawdy)?" Yeah, I've heard some northeasterners (N'Yawkers) and African-Mericans say "every-bawdy" but most people say "every buddy."
Roine is pronounced ROY-nuh.
An American mispronunciation that makes me crazy is Monticello. Thomas Jefferson's estate gets the correct pronunciation of mon-ti-CHEL-lo, but there are several cities around the U.S. with the same spelling that are pronounced Mon-ti-SELL-o. The stringed instrument is a CHello, not a SELLo. Same thing for Monticello.
Here's one that doesn't have to do with pronunciation, but I found it really odd. Apparently when the British say someone has "been here," it gets reduced to just "been." My daughter watches an English cartoon, and on more than one occasion the characters have used that construction. "The Tooth Fairy's been!" or "Santa's been!" ("Been" rhyming with "bean," of course!)
Pronunciation is one thing, getting ripped off at the pubs/bars in the U.S. is another.
Helping my 3rd-grader with her homework I had to look up some measurements. Did anyone else in the states know that our 16 oz PINT is actually 20oz in the U.K.? ( I know, I know, our beer glasses are most likely true Pint glasses anyway ;-) ).
I've worked with a lot of Brits. One word that I've heard that makes me chuckle is garage. I've heard them pronounce it like 'carriage' but with a 'g'. Also, why, do words get changed into something with an 'r' at the end. For example, when Curt Smith is talking about his daughter, Diva, he sometimes pronounces it as 'deever'. I've heard this 'r' placed at the end of words that end with a vowel.
Why is the letter Z pronounced zed?
I'm also glad we say panties in the states. You use the word knickers around the wrong company, there might be trouble. ;-)
To say nothing of fanny.
Interesting site:
http://aschmann.net/AmEng/
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Music isn't about chops, or even about talent - it's about sound and the way that sound communicates to people. Mike Keneally
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