Pronunciation guide

[Ant]

Menzies = Ming because the z isn't really one. It's a bastardisation of a now-lost letter that had the ng sound.

Not sure on sinjun though. Or Featherstonehaugh (Fanshaw) for that matter.

Here's one that me and the mrs can't settle: CLEMatis (my preferred one) or clem-AE-tis (hers)?

[TillieTrotter]

Glad you agree on that one Keef, it really pisses me orf!!

AND Mlteenie, living with a teenager and being surrounded by the blighters I know exactly what you mean, like!! AAAAHHHH

[mockney piers]

For years I read tousled as tussled not as in tow(rhyming with cow)zled. When I first heard it spoken I was very embarrassed for myself.

[SeanMacGabhann]

that reminds me of the first time I heard "omnipotent" spoken aloud - oh how I blushed, with me and my omni (long pause) poh-tent

[spadetownboy]

SimonM Wrote:

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> I think you have to blame the Beeb for this one -

> the guy who read the football results always

> referred to "Shrowsbury Town"...

i always thought it was called "shrowsbury town nil".........

[david_carnell]

Hyperbole. Hi-per-bol-ee or hyper-bol?

Homogenous - Hom-odj-eh-nous or homo-ge-nous?

The one that is making my blood boil at the moment is Paula Abdul on American Idol (don't ask) repeatedly referring to niche as nitch. Argh! (6)

[Ted Max]

Nitch is horrible, but interestingly could come in your category of "I don't care how the foreigners pronounce it I'm going to say it my way".

I'd go for HiPERbolay and HomODGenous.

REE-search is almost ubiquitous now, but not in Ted Max towers. Oh no.

[SimonM]

>>"Aluminium"

I think that most Americans pronounce it as "aluminum" <<

That's because they spell it that way though...

[LuvPeckham]

SimonM Wrote:

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> >>"Aluminium"

>

> I think that most Americans pronounce it as

> "aluminum"

> That's because they spell it that way though...

And your point is caller ?

to be honest it still grates when I hear them say it... much like DATA or DARTA

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Ant your pronunciation is correct for clematis.

[Ant]

More on the Menzies/Mingiss thing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4595228.stm

[SimonM]

>>And your point is caller ?<<

Well I suppose my point is that the removal of one of the "i"s means that we are talking about two different words, rather than differing pronunciation of the same word :))

[char1ie]

I've been having a little trouble recently with:

Tsaoische (sp?) - the boss of Ireland. I see it written all the time but how do you pronounce it!

Beatific - Be Ah tific? Not Beetific. Eh? Why?

Religious thingy - Diocese. How is this one supposed to sound?

And hyperbole - that's an annoying pronunciation.

Oh, and Beijing in Cantonese is "Bah Ging" and in Mandarin "Bay Jing/tsing". In English I'm sure that either Zj or J pronunciation is cool.

Current pet hate is leverage with lever rhyming with trevor. It is LEEEver! Oh and Process rhyming with crosses. It is PrOHcess! It's American business speak leaking into my office.

Charlie

Charlie

[SeanMacGabhann]

TeeShock

[david_carnell]

I never knew that Sean.

I've been going around saying Tee-Show (close to tissue almost). I will bow to you on this.

Diocese - Dio-seize.

[KalamityKel]

Pasta/Paasta grrrr to the latter

[Izodia]

Hmmm, I always say dio-sis for diocese...

[KalamityKel]

according to "cambridge" its Dai e (upside down and back to front e) sis

[david_carnell]

:-$

[Ant]

Dai/ә/sis?

[SeanMacGabhann]

it's not QUITE 100% right DC - and I'm sure of of my compatriots on here might do a better phonetic - but it's close enough

now.... MacGabhann - how DO you pronounce that ;-)

[david_carnell]

Ooh, no I take it back.

OED lists both pronunciations as valid. Yeah!

[Izodia]

So much better when both sides are right :)

I never understand those pronounciation symbols in dictionaries.

[Ant]

I think ә is just a general sort of 'uh' sound.

[david_carnell]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> it's not QUITE 100% right DC - and I'm sure of of

> my compatriots on here might do a better phonetic

> - but it's close enough

>

> now.... MacGabhann - how DO you pronounce that ;-)

Like the lead singer of the Pogues? McGowan?