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Pronunciation Poll
Kerry:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on April 24, 2008, 07:59:40 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."
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Ellemeno:
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!
Shasta542:
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.
optom3:
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.
injest:
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"??
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