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I've always pronounced the word "Southern" to rhyme with howthurn. I know most people say it like "suthurn" instead. I didn't realize that the way I pronounce it is considered weird until recently!

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[-] khannie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I have two:

I pronounce the d in Wednesday. Like wedns-day.

Vagaries - vag-air-ees. I think this is an Irish thing.

[-] mlegstrong@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I pronounce milk like melk. Is it wrong, definitely but I’m not gonna change it at this point

[-] CiderApplenTea@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Congrats, you now speak Dutch!

[-] PancakeBrock@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

I say the word pecan differently depending on what I'm talking about. If it's just the pecan itself I say it like pea-con. If it's a pecan pie I say it pea-can. Not sure why. I also live in a place with a bunch of pecan orchards so the word comes up fairly frequently.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I'm fluent in both Spanish and English (obv). When speaking English, I'm conflicted on whether I should pronounce Spanish loan words in a shitty English accent like everyone else, or in a proper Spanish accent. So instead I pronounce them as horribly as I can.

Jalapeño is "yah-la-PEEN-oh". Fajita is "fa-JAI-tah". Quesadilla gets "QUAY-sah-dilah"

(As a joke of course)

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 points 1 week ago

Overheard in a pizzeria:

Customer: I'd like a quattro sta.. quattro shta... How do you pronounce it?

The Turkish and not Italian waiter: Shtuh gon ee (for stagioni)

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Habanero is pronounced jabaññññero.

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

.ǝdoɹnƎ uᴉ ƃuᴉʌᴉl uɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ uɐ ɯɐ ᴉ ʇnq .ǝɯᴉʇ ǝɥʇ ll∀

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[-] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 week ago

As an American, it didn't click for me until I visited London for the first time why names like Leicester and Gloucester were pronounced the way they are by Brits. My dumb American brain sees the names as Lei-cester and Glou-cester rather than Leice-ster and Glouce-ster.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Was on holiday in Scotland with my father. And bless this girl at the tourist information who realised that when we stupid Germans said "glennis law" that we meant Glenisla (glen ila).

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[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 23 points 1 week ago

Living in Los Angeles as a white person, I refuse to pronounce street and city names that are Spanish the English-speaking way. Knowing Spanish since I was a kid from school and using it on a daily basis, my brain simply doesn’t butcher the pronunciation by default.

It’s caused confusion though for sure. I used to live near a street called La Tijera, but Americans pronounced it almost like Spanish “la tierra” which is a completely different word, and I couldn’t figure out where this street was that everyone was talking about.

[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

So, do you call it "Loss Anjeless" or "Lōs On-hay-lays?"

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[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

I don't personally do this, but many people in my family say the days of the week with "dee". Like "Sundee", "Mondee". I think it's charming, but one of their children said they were weird for saying it that way.

Also, as a programmer, there are some words that programmers use that are abbreviated which I refuse to pronounce the way that others pronounce them because I think it's weird, but virtually everybody pronounces them different to me.

For example, there is a common keyword in programming languages called "enum", and most people I know pronounce it as "EE-num", like it rhymes with "ME dumb". But "enum" is short for "enumeration", so I pronounce it as if it's the first two syllables of "enumeration", like "ee-NUUM". Although I think the normal pronunciation is weird, I don't say anything to people. I just pronounce it the way that I think it should be pronounced. But on multiple occasions, other programmers have called me out for it and asked why I pronounce it "wrong".

There are several other programming terms like this, but they don't immediately come to mind. Enum is the most common example.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 1 week ago

I don't personally do this, but many people in my family say the days of the week with "dee". Like "Sundee", "Mondee". I think it's charming, but one of their children said they were weird for saying it that way.

My first English teacher in Germany taught us this way as well. She was horrible. Calling kids stupid and such.

One of my biggest pet peeves in programming, hell even language in general, is when people sound out abbreviations. Like they say url instead of U.R.L. Or sequel instead of S.Q.L. Or in Star Wars when they say at at instead of AT-AT. The funniest one is smück for CMYK.

[-] logicbomb@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

I knew somebody (not a programmer) who pronounced HTML as "hotmail". I normally let people pronounce things however they want, but I had to beg her to pronounce it differently because I simply couldn't deal with it pronounced like that.

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago

I had a specific experience where I couldn't understand a client request the first time around because they kept talking about some guy named Earl.

I can't really express how jarring that pronunciation is - you just need to genuinely experience it sometime without warning to truly grok the oddness.

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[-] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago

Do you pronounce "char" like "care"?

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[-] Kaboom@reddthat.com 13 points 1 week ago

Solder. I taught myself, never really talked to anyone about it, and for like a decade, I pronounced it like it's spelled. With an L.

I just can't break the habit

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 12 points 1 week ago

If it makes you feel any better, that's the correct pronunciation in England.

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[-] waz@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

My wife says I pronounce crayon wrong. The way she says it, it's a single syllable word that is the same as the first syllable of cranberry. I say it as two syllables: cray-on.

Being fully honest, I've started drawing it out and articulating both syllables more because I know she doesn't like it.

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[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 13 points 1 week ago

Yosemite rhymes with Vegemite. Change my mind.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 17 points 1 week ago
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[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago

US American. I've lived overseas a long time and pronounce the 'h' in 'herbs' because, as Eddie Izzard once said, "it's got a fucking 'h' in it". I don't know when I switched but my mom laughed at me when we had a call recently.

One I only noticed a couple years ago: turmeric (was saying, and still frequently hear) 'toomeric'.

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[-] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago

Ever since that IT Crowd episode I can't not pronounce pedestal as "pedal stool".

[-] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

The mountain range on the eastern side of the U.S. is the 'apple-at'chans'. At least nearly everyone from the southern end of them say it that way (source: I'm from there).

'Apple-ay-shuns' is just as strange as saying 'Nor-folk'. Immediate indicator of you're an outsider.

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[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Garage.

GraJ

Catch shit for it all the time, but at this point I think it's more like a harmless Easter egg.

My grandma rolls the R in "Three", and it's become a game to get her to say it. She handles it with great humor.

I'm cool to have my own version of that.

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago
[-] Windex007@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Well ooh la we dah

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[-] Caboose12000@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

sometimes I accidentally pronounce "C'est la Vie" as "sest lah vy" even though I know its "say la vee" just because I read it first and it lives in my head as that first wrong pronunciation. confuses the hell out of people and I have to explain my foolery

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