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Title: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: David In Indy on April 21, 2008, 10:44:30 pm
If you pronounce some of those words differently than was listed in the poll, please tell us how you say it, or them! :D

Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: delalluvia on April 21, 2008, 10:49:46 pm
PIH-tshur (Picture)
PIH-tour


I say "PICK-tshur"
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: David In Indy on April 21, 2008, 10:51:17 pm
PIH-tshur (Picture)
PIH-tour


I say "PICK-tshur"

That's the way I say it too Del. I'll go back and change it. I didn't do a very good job at the phonetics with that one. You may want to recheck your last answer because I added a word.. Door. :)

Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: ZK on April 21, 2008, 11:05:34 pm
I say PICK Tya

Just in case you had ever wondered a reconstruction by a University in Florida believes Neanderthals (excuse the spelling) may have had an accent like us Kiwis (New Zealanders).







Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Brown Eyes on April 22, 2008, 03:52:35 pm

That was fun! 8)

Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: serious crayons on April 22, 2008, 04:08:01 pm
Here's one I didn't see on there. Most New Orleanians pronounce it

New OR-luns


It's funny that so many places are mispronounced by people enunciating the letters too much. Like, many people say or-e-GONE, but don't most people in the state call it OR-e-gun? And don't most people in LOO-ee-ville say Loo-uh-ville?
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 22, 2008, 04:20:25 pm
This poll is wicked hod caw.  ;D
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Kelda on April 22, 2008, 04:22:50 pm
Toe-mah-toe


this poll makes me wanna sing!

you say...... I say.......
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: David In Indy on April 22, 2008, 05:17:20 pm
Here's one I didn't see on there. Most New Orleanians pronounce it

New OR-luns


It's funny that so many places are mispronounced by people enunciating the letters too much. Like, many people say or-e-GONE, but don't most people in the state call it OR-e-gun? And don't most people in LOO-ee-ville say Loo-uh-ville?


I can answer THAT one for you Katherine, because Louisville is just down the road from me! They say "LOH-uh-vul" or "LOH-vul". And they will quickly correct you if they hear you saying it any other way! It hits them like a screeching chalkboard when they hear "Loo-EE-ville".  LOL
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Shakesthecoffecan on April 22, 2008, 05:27:34 pm
Lets see, I would say:

T'mater

'tater

Grahge

Lu'ziana

Norlins'

Loo-uh-ville

Poursh

Ax

To'-let

Winder

Wa-shin-tun

Creek

Pic-ture

cain't

Dore
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: mariez on April 22, 2008, 06:27:11 pm
A great idea, David! This was fun.   :)

Here's one I didn't see on there. Most New Orleanians pronounce it

New OR-luns

I'm not a New Orleanian - but that's how I pronounce it, too!

Marie

Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: MaineWriter on April 22, 2008, 06:57:15 pm
David, you forget a few classic New England/New York names:

Gloucester

Gloss-ter or

Glou-ches-ter

Worcester

Wuss-ter or

Wor-ches-ter

Patchogue

Patch-ogg or

Patch-o-gooey

Quogue


Quogue or

???


L
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 22, 2008, 09:29:18 pm
Worcester

Wuss-ter

And I always thought it was Wuss-tah.   ???

Quote
Patchogue

Patch-o-gooey

 :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: ZK on April 22, 2008, 10:22:05 pm
Question for yas? Do your News Presenters pronounce place names differently to everyone else. The tv presenters make a concerted effort to pronounce them differently to just about everyone else including the locals
eg a small town south of here spelt Oamaru. Virtually all of us say Om-ma- roo but not our oh so circumspect presenters, O- oma- roo. Sometimes you just about have to think twice about where they are talking about!!
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: serious crayons on April 22, 2008, 11:51:03 pm
Locals' pronunciations of place names are so often unexpected. In Minnesota, there's a town called Monticello, which people pronounce Mon-ti-SEH-lo. There's a town named Gentilly that people call Gently (GENT-lee). And in New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, there's a town called Madrid, which people pronounce MAD-rid.


Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: injest on April 23, 2008, 12:31:15 am
Question for yas? Do your News Presenters pronounce place names differently to everyone else. The tv presenters make a concerted effort to pronounce them differently to just about everyone else including the locals
eg a small town south of here spelt Oamaru. Virtually all of us say Om-ma- roo but not our oh so circumspect presenters, O- oma- roo. Sometimes you just about have to think twice about where they are talking about!!

oh lort. I had a teacher that called the river that makes the boundary between Texas and Louisiana the "Sab INE' " river....when we ALL know it is the "suhbeen" River. (Sabine River)

then there is a city across the line there in Louisiana I have heard called "Bose ee aire City" when we all know it is "Bos shur City" (Bossier City, LA.)

 :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: injest on April 23, 2008, 12:34:09 am
  (tomato)
 tuh-may-toe
 puh-tay-toe (potato)

 Ga-rahdge (Garage)

 Loo-ee-see-ana (Louisiana)

 New Or-LEANS (New Orleans)
 Loo-EE-ville (Louisville)
  Poursh (Porsche)
 Ask (Ask)
 
 TOY-let (Toilet)
 

 WIN-doh (Window)

 WAH-shing-tun (Washington)

 Kreek (Creek)

 PICK-tshur (Picture)

 Kant (Can't)
 
 KAYnt
 Dore (Door)


oh and my mother calls the police the "Poh leez"
 
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: David In Indy on April 23, 2008, 12:59:46 am
Locals' pronunciations of place names are so often unexpected. In Minnesota, there's a town called Monticello, which people pronounce Mon-ti-SEH-lo. There's a town named Gentilly that people call Gently (GENT-lee). And in New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, there's a town called Madrid, which people pronounce MAD-rid.




We have a Monticello in Indiana too, and we pronounce it Mon-tih-SEL-loh. I was shocked when I went to Virginia and I heard it pronounced Mon-ti-CHEL-loh.

We have a town just to the north of Indianapolis named Carmel. We pronounce it KAR-mel, but all of the out of towners pronounce it kar-MEL. We put the emphasis on the first syllable. People from out of town seem to want to put the emphasis on the second syllable.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: serious crayons on April 23, 2008, 01:08:04 am
We have a town just to the north of Indianapolis named Carmel. We pronounce it KAR-mel, but all of the out of towners pronounce it kar-MEL. We put the emphasis on the first syllable. People from out of town seem to want to put the emphasis on the second syllable.

Like the candy. Some call it CAR-mul, and others seem to call it KAH-ra-mel. At least the announcers on commercials do -- maybe they just want to stretch it out to make it sound extra delicious.

How is the city in California pronounced? Isn't it "kar-MEL by the Sea"?

Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: David In Indy on April 23, 2008, 01:10:41 am
Like the candy. Some call it CAR-mul, and others seem to call it KAH-ra-mel. At least the announcers on commercials do -- maybe they just want to stretch it out to make it sound extra delicious.

How is the city in California pronounced? Isn't it "kar-MEL by the Sea"?



I think it is Katherine.

Around here, we can always tell when somebody isn't from here by the way they pronounce Carmel. lol

Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: ifyoucantfixit on April 23, 2008, 01:35:09 am


      There are lots of places around here that have names that are hard to pronounce if you don't
llive here..   There is the Willamette river.. We pronounce it will am it.  Strangers want to say
Will a met.  Then there is Puyallup...pronounced Pu al up.. and many many interpretations of it
are around. 
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2008, 09:04:04 am
Pennsylvania has a "Mount CAR-mul." I understand there is a "New MAD-rid" in Missouri and a "KAY-ro" (Cairo) in Illinois (and is that Ill-i-noy, Ill-uh-noy, Ill-i-noise, or Ill-uh-noise?).

The worst news reader mispronunciation I ever heard wasn't of a place name. One December when I was in junior high, a reader for the local TV station pronounced the name of the Jewish Festival of Lights as "Cha-NOO-kuh." He was fired forthwith.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: MaineWriter on April 23, 2008, 09:18:00 am
Pennsylvania has a "Mount CAR-mul." I understand there is a "New MAD-rid" in Missouri and a "KAY-ro" (Cairo) in Illinois (and is that Ill-i-noy, Ill-uh-noy, Ill-i-noise, or Ill-uh-noise?).


Either one of the "noy" versions was the way I heard it when I lived there. They save the "s" sound for Des Plaines, pronounced "dess planes."

Here in Maine, Calais is callously pronounced "callous", not "kah - lay."

L
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2008, 09:36:22 am
Here in Maine, Calais is callously pronounced "callous", not "kah - lay."

Back in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries, that's how the English pronounced the name of that place in France across the strait from Dover.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Kerry on April 23, 2008, 10:19:32 am

Fun Poll! Here they are with my Aussie accent:  :D

ter-MAH-toe

per-TAYE-toe

GAr-rahge

Loo-ee-see-ANA (typical Aussie upward inflection at the end of a word)

New Or-LEENS

POOR-shah

ARSEk

TOY-let

WIN-doh

WASH-ing-tun

Kreek

PICK-chuh

CARnt

Dore
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: MaineWriter on April 23, 2008, 01:33:22 pm

And I only recently explained to her that the name Yvonne is pronounced Ee-von, not Ye-von.



Which reminds me of Pee Wee Herman and Miss Why - von.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2008, 02:34:28 pm
And I only recently explained to her that the name Yvonne is pronounced Ee-von, not Ye-von.

Tell you what, where I come from, the name of the actress who played Lily Munster was pronounced Yee-von Dee-CAR-low.  :-\
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: mariez on April 23, 2008, 03:35:51 pm
And I only recently explained to her that the name Yvonne is pronounced Ee-von, not Ye-von.

Don't tell my mother-in-law that! LOL!  Her name is Yvonne and she's quite emphatic that it's pronounced Ye-von and not Ee-von!  :laugh:

When my son was young I started reading the first Harry Potter book with him.  Later that same year, one of his teachers read a little of the book to them each day and he came home and told me that I was mispronouncing "Hermione" - that his teacher pronounced it "HER-mee-own."  I told him that I thought my pronunciation was correct, but that he didn't need to point it out to his teacher! LOL! 

Marie
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2008, 03:55:45 pm
I grew up thinking that Penelope was pronounced like canteloupe (my mom pronounced it wrong too).

Yeah,  I don't know when I caught on that it's Pen-EL-oh-pee.

"Hermione" - that his teacher pronounced it "HER-mee-own."

 :laugh:

There is a town in Belgium called Ypres that I believe the English pronounce "Wipers."  ;D
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: ZK on April 23, 2008, 05:11:10 pm
Come on Kerry tell us all how you pronounce the number 6???? ;)

....runs and ducks for cover......
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2008, 09:22:45 pm
Maybe I'm wrong about the whole Yvonne thing.   ???

No, I think you're right.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: MaineWriter on April 23, 2008, 09:31:52 pm
Yeah,  I don't know when I caught on that it's Pen-EL-oh-pee.

 :laugh:

There is a town in Belgium called Ypres that I believe the English pronounce "Wipers."  ;D

I went to Ypres with Fabienne last March and you are right, Jeff...my father kept telling me I had gone to "Wipers." I just let him believe that although no one I spoke to called it Wipers. LOL

PS, it is more than a town...it is a significant piece of WWI history
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 23, 2008, 09:35:39 pm
I went to Ypres with Fabienne last March and you are right, Jeff...my father kept telling me I had gone to "Wipers." I just let him believe that although no one I spoke to called it Wipers. LOL

PS, it is more than a town...it is a significant piece of WWI history

Yes, I know. But you're the first person I know who's actually been there. Have you been to "Callous," France, too, or just to "Callous," Maine?  ;D
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: mariez on April 23, 2008, 09:48:51 pm
Maybe I'm wrong about the whole Yvonne thing.   ???

Nah, you're not wrong, Susie!  My mother-in-law pronounces her name Ye-von  because that's the way her mother always pronounced it (and she likes the way it sounds better, too).  But, technically speaking it should be Ee-von. After all,  Yves St. Laurent is not Ye-ves St. Laurent.

It's funny about names.   I went to elementary school with a Marcia.  And every year on the first day of school the teacher would pronounce it MAR-sha and she would have to correct them, because she pronounced it Mar-SEE-a.   :)

Marie
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: MaineWriter on April 24, 2008, 06:40:34 am
Yes, I know. But you're the first person I know who's actually been there. Have you been to "Callous," France, too, or just to "Callous," Maine?  ;D

Just Callous, Maine. I did get sort of near to Callous, France when we were in Caen.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: MaineWriter on April 24, 2008, 06:42:16 am
Nah, you're not wrong, Susie!  My mother-in-law pronounces her name Ye-von  because that's the way her mother always pronounced it (and she likes the way it sounds better, too).  But, technically speaking it should be Ee-von. After all,  Yves St. Laurent is not Ye-ves St. Laurent.

It's funny about names.   I went to elementary school with a Marcia.  And every year on the first day of school the teacher would pronounce it MAR-sha and she would have to correct them, because she pronounced it Mar-SEE-a.   :)

Marie

And then there are Irish names. I went around for years thinking "Sean" was 'seen' and Siobhan was "sigh-oh-bahn." LOL

Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Brokeback_Dev on April 24, 2008, 07:43:16 am
I voted
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: mariez on April 24, 2008, 07:45:38 am
And then there are Irish names. I went around for years thinking "Sean" was 'seen' and Siobhan was "sigh-oh-bahn." LOL

Funny you mention "Sean."  That reminds me that a few years ago there was a meterologist on MSNBC named Sean McLaughlin and I kept thinking his colleagues were mispronouncing his name because they kept introducing him as "Seen" and I couldn't understand why no one was correcting them - until I heard him pronounce his own name one day and, sure enough, he said "Seen."  I just looked him up on Wikipedia and was amused to find these items listed under "Trivia" (I know it's not the most reliable of sources, but ....)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_McLaughlin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_McLaughlin)

Sean's name is pronounced Seen rather than the traditional pronunciation of "shawn"

Sean has a brother named Shawn.

Sean has a brother named Shea.


I wonder if Shea's name is pronounced "SHE-ah."  LOL!

Marie
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Brokeback_Dev on April 24, 2008, 07:45:43 am
And then there are Irish names. I went around for years thinking "Sean" was 'seen' and Siobhan was "sigh-oh-bahn." LOL



Cool Leslie, my Tattoo artist's name is Siobhan.  I Had never heard it before until now.  She pronounces Sha-bon.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: injest on April 24, 2008, 07:53:08 am
I voted


thats it? You ain't sharing your answers?? hmmmm...

how does Dev pronounce tomato....the mystery continues!!

 ;D ;)
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: MaineWriter on April 24, 2008, 07:59:40 am
Funny you mention "Sean."  That reminds me that a few years ago there was a meterologist on MSNBC named Sean McLaughlin and I kept thinking his colleagues were mispronouncing his name because they kept introducing him as "Seen" and I couldn't understand why no one was correcting them - until I heard him pronounce his own name one day and, sure enough, he said "Seen."  I just looked him up on Wikipedia and was amused to find these items listed under "Trivia" (I know it's not the most reliable of sources, but ....)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_McLaughlin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_McLaughlin)

Sean's name is pronounced Seen rather than the traditional pronunciation of "shawn"

Sean has a brother named Shawn.

Sean has a brother named Shea.


I wonder if Shea's name is pronounced "SHE-ah."  LOL!

Marie

You really have to wonder what their parents were thinking!

Back in the day, when I was working in OB, I talked a woman out of naming her baby "Placenta." She had heard the word in the delivery room and thought it was pretty. Oh my. And I did have a patient whose baby was named Female (she pronounced Fe-MAH-lee). She explained, "They named her for me at the hospital. That was the name they put on the card on her crib."

ai yi yi
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: MaineWriter on April 24, 2008, 08:01:38 am
Cool Leslie, my Tattoo artist's name is Siobhan.  I Had never heard it before until now.  She pronounces Sha-bon.

I think I read a story with a Siobahn character and read it as sigh-oh-bahn. When I finally met a real Siobhan (pronounced like you said, Sha-bon) it took me awhile to figure out what her name was and how she spelled it.

L
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Brokeback_Dev on April 24, 2008, 08:05:31 am
I think I read a story with a Siobahn character and read it as sigh-oh-bahn. When I finally met a real Siobhan (pronounced like you said, Sha-bon) it took me awhile to figure out what her name was and how she spelled it.

L

Yes i can see how reading it first without ever hearing it could cause problems with mispronounciation.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Jeff Wrangler on April 24, 2008, 08:48:09 am
I think I read a story with a Siobahn character and read it as sigh-oh-bahn. When I finally met a real Siobhan (pronounced like you said, Sha-bon) it took me awhile to figure out what her name was and how she spelled it.

L

Here's an Irish name for you: Seosaimhin. That's the given name of a woman who works part time where I work. Any takers on the pronunciation?

It's SOSH-a-min, with a long "o." They call her "Sosh" for short.

Back in the day, when I was working in OB, I talked a woman out of naming her baby "Placenta." She had heard the word in the delivery room and thought it was pretty. Oh my. And I did have a patient whose baby was named Female (she pronounced Fe-MAH-lee). She explained, "They named her for me at the hospital. That was the name they put on the card on her crib."

Now, if those stories came from anyone else, I would think you were pulling our legs.  ;D  The mother of an old friend of mine grew up in Tennessee. She used to tell a story about a neighbor back home who named her daughter Vagina because she thought it sounded pretty.  ::)

Funny you mention "Sean."  That reminds me that a few years ago there was a meterologist on MSNBC named Sean McLaughlin and I kept thinking his colleagues were mispronouncing his name because they kept introducing him as "Seen" and I couldn't understand why no one was correcting them - until I heard him pronounce his own name one day and, sure enough, he said "Seen."

He's still around. I "seen" him on the Today show within the past year.  ;D  And I thought the same thing about his name until I heard him pronounce it himself!  ;D
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Kerry on April 24, 2008, 10:45:30 am
Come on Kerry tell us all how you pronounce the number 6???? ;)

....runs and ducks for cover......

Well you should run and duck for cover, young man!  ;)   ;)  Tut!  ::)

In Oz, we pronounce six as SIX; whereas, in New Zealand, it is pronounced SUX.   :-\

<Now Kerry runs and ducks for cover haha>   :laugh:
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Kerry on April 24, 2008, 10:52:36 am
You really have to wonder what their parents were thinking!

Back in the day, when I was working in OB, I talked a woman out of naming her baby "Placenta." She had heard the word in the delivery room and thought it was pretty. Oh my. And I did have a patient whose baby was named Female (she pronounced Fe-MAH-lee). She explained, "They named her for me at the hospital. That was the name they put on the card on her crib."

ai yi yi

 :laugh:     :laugh:     :laugh:     :laugh:
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Ellemeno on June 15, 2008, 03:14:54 am
I say New OR-lins.

And many in Mississippi say Mi-SIH-pee.

My mom, from California pronounces the state next door Nuh-VAD-uh.  I say Nuh-VAH-duh.

I say Gloss-ter, Wuss-ter, Patch-ogg, and Kwog.

Here's one that gets me - I've never eaten them, but there's these little sausages that come in a can called Vienna sausages.  I remember once hearing a guy call them Vye-EEN-uh sausages.

I pronounce the word tarpaulin TAR-puh-lun, but I've heard people say tar-POE-lee-un.

I had a friend named Siobhan in 8th grade, and she pronounced it Shuh-VON.

I remember my stepfather saying once that he didn't see why Americans called the city in Italy Mi-LAHN, because in Italian, it's Milano.  Why not pronounce it Mi-LAN.

I thought Ypres is pronounced EE-pruh

And where I grew up, the names Sara and Sarah were pronounced the same, like SAIR-uh.  But when I was living in Mi-SIP-pee, I remember someone explaining to me that one is SAIR-uh, but one is SAY-ruh.  I don't remember which is which.

I had never heard the name Seosaimhin, but it reminds me of Shannyn Sossamon, who starred with Heath in A Knight's Tale (and who, BTW, when I just looked her up on IMDb to spell her name right, I see named her child Audio Science Clayton, not a tricky name to pronounce).

Great poll, I hadn't seen it til now!
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Shasta542 on June 15, 2008, 08:33:56 am
I was corrected once for saying for-MID-able.

It was supposed to be FOR-midable I was told.

So I looked it up. Webster's has both pronunciations.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: optom3 on June 15, 2008, 09:25:31 am
My maiden name is Scottish and no one could ever pronounce it except when we were on holiday in Scotland,
It is spelled COLQUHOUN . Have a guess at how that mouthful is pronounced. A clue, there are several silent letters. So it is pronounced CAHOON !!!!!
Another Scottish one which i nearly always misspronounced is MENZIES which is pronounced MINGIS I kid you not and EWAN is YOU AN.

It was just my bad luck that COLQUHOUN/ CA HOON rhymed so beautifully with Baboon. Kids can be pretty cruel.I'll let your imagination run with that.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: injest on June 15, 2008, 10:42:46 am
I have a couple of uncles...when the first one was born they named him "Man"....when the second one was born they named him "Boy".  ::) ::) ::)

Can you imagine being fifty with kids of your own having people still call you 'Uncle Boy'??

I guess now that he is up in his seventies we should call him "Grandpa Boy"??
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: David In Indy on June 15, 2008, 02:48:59 pm
My maiden name is Scottish and no one could ever pronounce it except when we were on holiday in Scotland,
It is spelled COLQUHOUN . Have a guess at how that mouthful is pronounced. A clue, there are several silent letters. So it is pronounced CAHOON !!!!!
Another Scottish one which i nearly always misspronounced is MENZIES which is pronounced MINGIS I kid you not and EWAN is YOU AN.

It was just my bad luck that COLQUHOUN/ CA HOON rhymed so beautifully with Baboon. Kids can be pretty cruel.I'll let your imagination run with that.


I went to college with a guy who's last name was Drzeweichi.

I'll give you all a few minutes to chew it over. A hint: the first half sounds like the name of a car! :D

Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: David In Indy on June 15, 2008, 02:57:45 pm
It's pronounced Cheh-vee-EH-ski.

The first part sounds like Chevy, but with a hard ch sound like in the word church.

He was a real nice guy, and very cute. Smart too. Maybe even a genius.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Fran on June 15, 2008, 05:04:41 pm
My stepmother taught a child named "TaBronx" named for, you guessed it, The Bronx.



When one of my friends was a teacher, she had a male student named Usmail (pronounced OOZE-mail).  She used to joke that his mother must have gotten his name off of a mailbox.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: BlissC on June 15, 2008, 06:23:50 pm
Toe-mah-toe


this poll makes me wanna sing!

you say...... I say.......

LOL!

Well considering most of yous are Americanadians, looking at the results from the poll, looks like you've done a fair job of pronouncing things the "right" way. Now if we could just persuade you to start using the letter "u" properly, we'd really be making some progress!  ;) ;D

UK Bliss  ;)
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: BlissC on June 15, 2008, 06:32:07 pm
Another Scottish one which i nearly always misspronounced is MENZIES which is pronounced MINGIS I kid you not and EWAN is YOU AN.

Ah, strange lot the Scots are... *ducks and runs just in case there's any Scots around*

The leader of one of the opposition parties for a while here in the UK was called Menzies Campbell, and it was always quite funny watching the news with how the different reporters would pronounce his name.

There's also a chain of newsagents/stationers called Menzies, and though everyone knows that MENZIES should be pronounced MINGIS, round here at least, everyone still always called it Menzies - that particular shop in town's now been taken over by the WH Smith chain, which is a hell of a lot easier to pronounce!  :laugh:
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: optom3 on June 15, 2008, 08:55:25 pm
I swear on everything that is holy and my own life,that while I was in practice in England I had a patient, actually a whole family of Fuckits.
They insisted that it was pronounced foo kay. At the time there was a terrible,(IMO)show on T.V where one of the families had the surname Bucket pronounced boo kay.
I never called the family anything other than Fuckit.I know, childish, but you have to have some fun.
 I also had a Mrs large who was in fact enormous.So much so that I had to raise the arms n the test chair otherwise she could not fit in.She wanted contact lenses and because of her bulk and the fact that I am only  5ft 2ins, I had to stand on a foot stool to get close enough to her to get the lenses in.That should give you an idea of her bulk.

The odd thing was I was more embarrassed than her.When it came time to swing a slit lamp (microscope on a hinged table ) in front of her so I could check the front of her eyes and also the contact lens fit.I simply could not do it.Her stomach and bust were simply too big to get the slit lamp close enough to check her eyes.In the end my partner who was, well still is i guess, had to come in, push all his weight against the table,she hoisted her bust on top of the table and I just about got to see enough of her eyes,
She was laughing, I was sweating like a pig and dying of embarrassment.Not an urban myth, a true story.
May I be forgiven but I could not cope with 1/month contact lens checks, so I lied and said she was unsuitable due to dry eyes.!!!!!!
I had a John who became Joanne,but had neglected to inform us.So when we got out the current record card I called in a MR------- ,when she stood up, I said no I called Mr.--------. Then I saw the size of her/his feet and twigged.That was not deliberate on my part and I was genuinely sorry.She took it all in good spirit and said ,no my fault I should have told you,so that you could update your records.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: ZK on June 16, 2008, 06:56:09 am
In the same spirit as Mrs Bucket, I once spoke to a lady whose name on the computer was parrott however who was high offended when I called her Mrs Parrott (as in bird) and was instructed with a very plum like tone to pronounce it as Pear row (like the PI) LOL.

PS Did you know that You Tube has shorts of "The Good Life" - I love Penelope Keith
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: Kerry on June 16, 2008, 10:24:23 am

And where I grew up, the names Sara and Sarah were pronounced the same, like SAIR-uh.  But when I was living in Mi-SIP-pee, I remember someone explaining to me that one is SAIR-uh, but one is SAY-ruh.  I don't remember which is which.


I work with an English woman named Sarah. She pronounces her name Suh-ruh.

The name of New South Wales's Minister for Health is Reba Meagher. It's pronounce Ree-buh Mar (as in Mars, without the "s").

I once worked with a Nurse Onions. She pronounced it on-EYE-uns (as you would, if your name was Onions haha). Quizzically, at that same time, there was also a Nurse Pickles, pronounced Pickles! True story!  :laugh: 
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: ChrisC on June 16, 2008, 05:31:45 pm
Love the way some people pronounce some words, it's a great source of entertainment at work. Living in Devon UK when people say 'old' they say it as 'owed'.  Likewise 'told' is 'towd',  cracks me up each time.
Title: Re: Pronunciation Poll
Post by: David In Indy on June 16, 2008, 05:56:19 pm
Love the way some people pronounce some words, it's a great source of entertainment at work. Living in Devon UK when people say 'old' they say it as 'owed'.  Likewise 'told' is 'towd',  cracks me up each time.

That sounds really cute! I love accents. I love listening to them. :)

We have three distinct accents here in my state. Up north they sound like they are from Michigan or Wisconsin. They sound like their noses are all stuffed up. In the central part of the state, it is more typically "midwestern" with what some people call a "twang". We often say "warsh" instead of wash. "Poosh" instead of push, etc.. Finally in the southern part, they have a rather distinct Southern accent, very similar to Kentucky or West Virginia. :)