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Old 01-03-2013, 11:50 PM   #5866
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Old 01-04-2013, 01:14 AM   #5867
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And everyone in my second grade class laughed when I pronounced "Choir" as "Choy-er."
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Old 01-04-2013, 08:38 AM   #5868
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And everyone in my second grade class laughed when I pronounced "Choir" as "Choy-er."
Yes! That 'Ch' gets laughs in any country.(more in Switzerland?)








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Old 01-04-2013, 09:46 AM   #5869
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I still have trouble hearing anything other than kway when I read quay. I do manage to pronounce it correctly (key) when necessary though.
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Old 01-04-2013, 11:13 AM   #5870
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I thought it was funny.
So did I.
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Old 01-04-2013, 03:00 PM   #5871
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I still have trouble hearing anything other than kway when I read quay. I do manage to pronounce it correctly (key) when necessary though.
Me too. Glad to find I am not the only one.
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Old 01-04-2013, 03:44 PM   #5872
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Old 01-04-2013, 06:09 PM   #5873
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I still have trouble hearing anything other than kway when I read quay. I do manage to pronounce it correctly (key) when necessary though.
Real men don't eat key-ch they eat quwee-sh...
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Old 01-04-2013, 06:41 PM   #5874
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I still have trouble hearing anything other than kway when I read quay. I do manage to pronounce it correctly (key) when necessary though.
As did I until I was in Singapore once and asked a taxi driver to take me to Clark'S Kway. He made a point of correcting me once he figured out what I was talking about.

I have a long history of mispronouncing words I have only read but not heard. It's even more embarrassing when other people assume my pronunciation is correct and begin pronouncing the word the same errant way I do.

For about two months in elementary school all the boys were talking about vag-(rhymes with fag)-in-(rhymes with fin)-as-(pronounced ahs) because I had only read the word, and never heard it.
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Old 01-04-2013, 07:29 PM   #5875
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giggle! (and eeek --- I still though quay *was* "quay". Guess I'll stick to WordsWorth and finding it amongst scrambled letters. I'll try not to actually GO to one!)
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Old 01-04-2013, 07:47 PM   #5876
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As did I until I was in Singapore once and asked a taxi driver to take me to Clark'S Kway. He made a point of correcting me once he figured out what I was talking about.
I was lucky to be in S'pore while they were building Clark Quay, so I 'heard' the name often before I actually was able to go there. I didn't embarrass myself until I visited some islands in the Caribbean, with the 'last name' of Cuay. How was I supposed to know it wasn't pronounced Koo-ay?


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Old 01-04-2013, 07:54 PM   #5877
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giggle! (and eeek --- I still though quay *was* "quay". Guess I'll stick to WordsWorth and finding it amongst scrambled letters. I'll try not to actually GO to one!)
Cay is pronounced Key too... Disney owns Castaway Cay... a great place to spend a day off their cruise ship!

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Old 01-04-2013, 07:58 PM   #5878
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How about "quey" ? (Well, WordsWorth tells me it's a word)
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Old 01-04-2013, 11:35 PM   #5879
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For about two months in elementary school all the boys were talking about vag-(rhymes with fag)-in-(rhymes with fin)-as-(pronounced ahs) because I had only read the word, and never heard it.


That looks like the word is pronounced in Spanish.

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We now have a full nation of people singing at 'Carry-O-kee' clubs... rather than kah-rah-o-keh clubs. And most of us 'Muricans' grew up thinking people drank 'sack-ee' and killed themselves by committing 'harry-carry.' (sock-eh and hara-kiri)


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Your phonetic spelling of those brings back fond memories of my friend Sam.
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