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  • RavenLibra
    RavenLibra Posts: 1,737 Member
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    here's one that drives my wife nuts... Lieutenant... IN the US.. LOO-TEN-ANT.. In the British Commonwealth... LEF-TEN-ANT.
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,932 Member
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    Apparently in the mid-west they have problems with French pronunciations of French words. Particularly in the names of their cities and towns.

    I'm looking at you Versailles, Indiana (Ver-sales)

    Rule 1: The French are always wrong

    Rule 2: If the French are right, see Rule 1.
  • AglaeaC
    AglaeaC Posts: 1,974 Member
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    I hate it when people say foyer like foy er instead of foy ay. Its a french word... silly me
    I wouldn't pronounce with an ay in the end, if I spoke French. Americans have a weird way of pronouncing French.

    Faux is one vowel in sound yet it becomes two in some miraculous way over there.

    And don't get me started on hors d'oeuvres, that one makes my ears bleed.
  • beccag28
    beccag28 Posts: 43 Member
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    I think correct pronunciation is all a matter of opinion. In my opinion many americans from all states pronounce a great many words wrong.
  • RavenLibra
    RavenLibra Posts: 1,737 Member
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    OHH..and my wife hails from MOSS-CO, Idaho... Not to be confused with MOS-COW Russia... although they are spelled the same. kinda an old cold war wound I think. :)
  • Galatea_Stone
    Galatea_Stone Posts: 2,037 Member
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    Cairo, Georgia
    It isn't syrup, y'all.
  • AglaeaC
    AglaeaC Posts: 1,974 Member
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    here's one that drives my wife nuts... Lieutenant... IN the US.. LOO-TEN-ANT.. In the British Commonwealth... LEF-TEN-ANT.
    Or any country where English is taught the British way.
  • Capt_Apollo
    Capt_Apollo Posts: 9,026 Member
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    when someone pronounces it "expresso" i die a little inside.

    and this is not pronounced like the city in Texas.

    HOUSTON-STREET-SIGN.jpg
  • AglaeaC
    AglaeaC Posts: 1,974 Member
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    when someone pronounces it "expresso" i die a little inside.

    and this is not pronounced like the city in Texas.

    HOUSTON-STREET-SIGN.jpg
    They actually spell it with an x, too. Espresso, people, espresso.
  • SunofaBeach14
    SunofaBeach14 Posts: 4,932 Member
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    when someone pronounces it "expresso" i die a little inside.

    and this is not pronounced like the city in Texas.

    HOUSTON-STREET-SIGN.jpg

    How-Stun
  • americangirlok
    americangirlok Posts: 228 Member
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    Mine isn't really a local word that's said incorrectly, but loose and lose drive me nuts seeing it in the written word. I seriously did see a sign that said "want to loose weight call me!" And I was laughing to myself "Oh no, the weights have been loosed!"
  • RavenLibra
    RavenLibra Posts: 1,737 Member
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    AX a question? go to the LIE-BARRY?
  • IHateThinkingOfAUsername
    IHateThinkingOfAUsername Posts: 568 Member
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    Th/f/v confusions here.
  • Rogiefreida
    Rogiefreida Posts: 567 Member
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    Lots of native American names in Washington...all butchered on a regular basis.

    Snohomish, Wahkiakum, Puyallup, etc.
  • gym_king_carlie
    gym_king_carlie Posts: 528 Member
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    I am from Hull, Yorkshire, England, but in Hull, our accent/dialect, we don't pronounce the letter 'H' so people from here say ULL' even our football (soccer) and Rugby teams promote merchandise branded 'ULL' I don't find it ignorant personally, I understand some gripes with pronunciations of certain places, like completely changing the spelling.
  • IHateThinkingOfAUsername
    IHateThinkingOfAUsername Posts: 568 Member
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    here's one that drives my wife nuts... Lieutenant... IN the US.. LOO-TEN-ANT.. In the British Commonwealth... LEF-TEN-ANT.
    Or any country where English is taught the British way.
    Maybe I've watched Forrest Gump too much. I say lootenant.
  • seltzermint555
    seltzermint555 Posts: 10,742 Member
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    I live in Iowa... and we have several towns with issues

    Nevada - pronounced ne-VAY-duh

    We have one of those in Missouri too! Same awful pronunciation. Also in Oklahoma there's a Miami with the pronunciation of "My-AM-uh" which many insist is correct Native American pronunciation.
  • Debbjones
    Debbjones Posts: 278 Member
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    I'm curious... How do you pronounce it correctly? I need some phonetics here.

    kike in doll

    So I looked up the pronunciation and this is what my search returned...

    kerr ken doll
    Kuy - sounds like 'Ker' (rhymes with "her")
    kendahl = ken doll, like Barbie's Boyfriend

    So" kike in doll" may not be correct... :-) Heck what do I know, I never saw or heard the name/word until now! LOL!
  • White_n_Nerdy
    White_n_Nerdy Posts: 22 Member
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    There's a whole slew of Wisconsin cities that no one can pronounce. Look up the YouTube video of Texans pronouncing Wisconsin cities and you'll see what I mean.

    There are two in Wisconsin that drive me up a wall. Inability to pronounce the "th" in that / there / those / etc. "Dat der truck." Those aren't words! The other one is inserting "r's" where the don't belong. Especially when "wash" becomes "worsh."

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