Ignorant local pronounciations that stick...

They are not wrong pronunciations, they are unexpected pronunciations. Without shibboleths, how would you know who was local and who was a transplant?

Around here we have Berlin and New Berlin, both pronounced BURR-lin. Also, Teutonia Ave is pronounce TIE-tone-yah

SE WI?

Yep. A proud cheesehead.

I'm curious... How do you pronounce it correctly? I need some phonetics here.

kike in doll

Thanks I was curious too. I would never have guessed "kike in doll".

Gonna have a bob -e-q out in the yad, invite Peta and Linder and cook up some of them Lobstah! :bigsmile:

The one that I wonder about is Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie was from Pittsburgh, but was a titan of industry world wide. As such many places are named after him, New York for example. But everyone else pronounces it Car-nuh-Gee while we say it Car-Nay-Gee.

I really hope everyone else is saying it wrong and not us.

Andrew CAR- NAY- GEE came from Scotland and that is how you say it...with a hard 'G'

And for the record - it's Edin- buh-ruh- NOT Edinboro or Edinburg; Glas GO not Glas-GOW and Aber-DEEN not AH -berdeen. There's American 'English' then there's PROPER English!!

It's known as "regional dialects". If this is your biggest problem today, thank the Almighty for your good fortune! Might not be a bad idea to pull the log out of your butt as well....................

As a person raised in Michigan, I must add "Sault St. Marie" to this discussion.

Okay, here's one for the Brits: Gloucestershire. I think I recall it without the "ce" in there, but I'm not sure.

There are many tricky areas in London, too. Marylebone looks to be read Mary-le-bone, but I vaguely remember Maryl-bone.

Yep glos-ter-shire. Same as Leicestershire -les-ter-shire.
My husband and I both say mar-lee-bone.

Ah ha! Thanks :flowerforyou:

Missed off a bit... Neither of us are from London so we may possibly be wrong.... Although that'd make everyone I've ever played monopoly* with wrong too. (*it's one of the stations).

Edit to add an apostrophe. Just incase it bothers fellow pedants.

I am an Londoner - we say Marl-e-bone / Glos-ter-shear / Les-ter-shear

My biggest grip is the mispronunciation of Leicester square - its not Lie-cess-ter Square its Les-ter Square. If you are a US tourist in London and you pronounce this correctly then you'll be well respected

Assuming "Marl-e-bone" is eeeee as in knee not e as in egg then I'm feeling rather pleased with myself. Lol. And yep 'shire' = "shear" as in rhyming with hear and ear; not "shire" (as in the place hobbits live).

well I'm from England and as far as I am concerned ALL Americans pronounce things wrong! *giggle*

well I'm from England and as far as I am concerned ALL Americans pronounce things wrong! *giggle*

Dead right :-p

2 more food ones:

Chorizo pronounced as chorit-zo. Special rage points for trying to overdo a Spanish accent while pronoucing it as no Spanish person would ever do. It doesn't have a 'zz' like pizza! But everybody does it. If being strictly correct it's chor-ee-tho although I do agree that sounds a bit pretentious from an English person, otherwise chor-ee-so is ok for an English speaker.

Canape pronounced as canopy.

It's known as "regional dialects". If this is your biggest problem today, thank the Almighty for your good fortune! Might not be a bad idea to pull the log out of your butt as well....................

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The Butthurt is strong with this one

well to that I say the word is aluminium not "al -U -Min -e-um"

They spell it alumiNUM, too. I don't get how that one started, because originally it is alumiNIUM and just about every other country includes the i in the name.

People around here (even newscasters) say Nor-FORK, instead of Norfolk for the town in Nebraska, many people also say Dez-Moinez, and it is the state capitol!

It was phonetic . They spell it aluminium but the British pronounce the word " AL -U -Men- E -Um "
Sorry married to a Brit .

I don't know who you're referring to with your "they", but I take it you're American? If you go back and read, my "they" are the Americans.

Everywhere on the planet (with a few exceptions), the element is spelled alumiNIum. It is the original spelling and what I said earlier was that I don't quite see how the letter i was dropped in the U.S.

It was phonetic . They spell it aluminium but the British pronounce the word " AL -U -Men- E -Um "
Sorry married to a Brit .

I don't know who you're referring to with your "they", but I take it you're American? If you go back and read, my "they" are the Americans.

Everywhere on the planet (with a few exceptions), the element is spelled alumiNIum. It is the original spelling and what I said earlier was that I don't quite see how the letter i was dropped in the U.S.

I can't remember off the top of my head, but a quick google search will answer that question. I think there's even a Wikipedia page explaining the word's evolution in the US.

Technically, the correct pronunciation IS aluminium (the way the Brits say it). And I say this as an American who says aluminum. :-) And Google Chrome accepts both spellings as accurate.