Seriously strange pronounciations (?)

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by krisk

you know depending on what crowd you are in that can be a very suggestive question! *weg*

Originally Posted by Lady Blue

I think she has, but it's the drug interaction you've got to watch out for. You can sometimes get a serious case of the munchies if you're not careful.


Oorrrrr, did you mean something entirely different with that question? (Where's Tim?)

It can change cranky persons into crankier people (so I'm told) ..... not getting it I mean .....

[Peverel]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

so that would be "dog and bone" and "trouble and strife" ?

10/10 excellent - of course with everyone here I would imagine we could invent some new ones - hmmmm maybe I should start a new thread

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Peverel

10/10 excellent - of course with everyone here I would imagine we could invent some new ones - hmmmm maybe I should start a new thread

you may certainly do so .....

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Peverel

10/10 excellent - of course with everyone here I would imagine we could invent some new ones - hmmmm maybe I should start a new thread

i love that idea ! let's. i'll let you start since a bit of explanation would be a good idea.

[YGG-]

Originally Posted by HarryT

I'm sure there is a word for it, but I don't know what it is .

The "you" (university) is a diphtong while the "u" (umpire) is a vowel.

[BenG]

I once knew someone from the mountains of Tennessee. He would pronounce fire as far.
A friend claimed he had a serious conversation with him about how some words are pronounced the same but spelled differently, like fire and far and tire and tar.

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by BenG

I once knew someone from the mountains of Tennessee. He would pronounce fire as far.
A friend claimed he had a serious conversation with him about how some words are pronounced the same but spelled differently, like fire and far and tire and tar.

...and then there's all the strange people who pronounce "you're" and "your" the same way, when they should clearly be pronounced differently. (I say 'yer' and 'yore')

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by BenG

I once knew someone from the mountains of Tennessee. He would pronounce fire as far.
A friend claimed he had a serious conversation with him about how some words are pronounced the same but spelled differently, like fire and far and tire and tar.

But then, around here fire = far
far = fur

I do believe that tire and tar both = tar

Oil is more or less "earl" .... business is sort of "bidnis"

I hear a lot about the earl bidnis around here.

I've stopped trying to have serious conversations with most of the people in the area. They can't understand a word I say anyway, so what's the point?? Sigh .... actually had someone insist I couldn't possibly be "one'a dem budie people, cause there weren't no budie church around." I tried explaining that the Buddhist philosophy I happen to follow does not believe in an all-powerful creator god, hence, no churches in which to worship a non-existent god. They walked away muttering something about "damn weird furners movin' inta thuh area!!"

[slayda]

Originally Posted by krisk

one of the funniest slip ups I have heard was from my daughter. she is well read and well educated, but we were at a store when she was about 17 and she some rather lovely "Candle Bras". we owned some ourselves, I was quite certain I had made reference to them a few times in her life, but somehow that twist came out. it was a rather upscale store so I managed to restrain myself to some extent and not embarass her too terribly.

You wear those "Candle Bras" you be one "hot moma!"

[jmorton]

For what it's worth, I was born and raised in Arizona and always pronounced them "boy" and "key" too. I didn't start hearing people say "boo-ee" until the late seventies.

[slayda]

Originally Posted by BenG

I once knew someone from the mountains of Tennessee. He would pronounce fire as far.
A friend claimed he had a serious conversation with him about how some words are pronounced the same but spelled differently, like fire and far and tire and tar.

That's how we know that the three wisemen in the Bible were firemen - because "they came from afar."

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by slayda

That's how we know that the three wisemen in the Bible were firemen - because "they came from afar."

[slayda]

Originally Posted by YGG-

The "you" (university) is a diphtong while the "u" (umpire) is a vowel.

But in university they don't even wear thongs, they just streak.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

...and then there's all the strange people who pronounce "you're" and "your" the same way, when they should clearly be pronounced differently. (I say 'yer' and 'yore')

I tend to say yore for you're and ewer (and very occasionaly yer) for your.

[CathalMagus]

Originally Posted by HarryT

"St. John" is only "sinjun" when it's somebody's surname. In all other situations it's "Saint John", as you would expect.

Just to give you a two-for-one: an Irish place name and "St. John". A few miles from where I live is a town called "St Johnston" (pronounced saint-JON-stun locally) - in Gaelic it's "Baile Suingean" (pronounced BA-lah SING-ahn) which translates exactly to "Town of St. John" but only if 'St. John' was pronounced "sinjun".

Then again, this is probably because the town was named after someone called "St. John" rather than after the saint himself. Thus "sinjun" persisted in the Irish placename, but vanished from the English name, (probably because anyone looking at a map sees saint-JON-stun...)


And it's 'boy' and 'kee' in Ireland too. Although, with somewhat of a reader's pronunciation in my youth, I used to hear the latter at 'kway' whenever I read it for years, until I connected the familiar sound of 'kee' with the counter-intuitive spelling of 'quay'! (In fact, I was probably corrected... both my parents were teachers.)