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SnoozeControl wrote: It's probably an indication of the company I keep, but there are some written words I seldom hear actually used in conversation. Here are a few I needed help with pronouncing...

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Indict

Posthumous

Embarrassing, isn't it? You really don't wanna know how I said "indict" the first time.:rolleyes:


:wah: So howcome you still pronounce it like that?

Everyone knows that indict is pronounced indict :rolleyes:

........and isn't Posthumous Latin for after a joke? We'll have to ask Abbey

Diuretic wrote: I used to pronounce "centrifugal" as "sentry-fewgal" - bah, who cares, we all speak in a first draft anyway :wah:
So did all my science teachers. Only time I've heard it any different was in a song

Use Wiktionary.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Main_Page

Gordon.

SnoozeControl wrote: Mirrian-Webster online has a facility that allows you to hear word pronounciations. I like to make it say fellatio.


Isn't that the fella off CSI Miami?

Another one is awry. I have known people pronounce it or-ree, and they aren't joking.

My big embarrassment was going to the bus station in San Francisco I think (would it have been??) and asking for tickets to Yose-mite Valley.

My brother was horrified and reminded me about Yosemite Sam!

Rod Stewarts old band The Faces used to have a Word of the Day where they would all try to include it in every conversation they had. The day that the word was "Incidentally" was the day that they wrote "Cindy Incidentally".

Tigerlily wrote: Another one is awry. I have known people pronounce it or-ree, and they aren't joking.

My big embarrassment was going to the bus station in San Francisco I think (would it have been??) and asking for tickets to Yose-mite Valley.

My brother was horrified and reminded me about Yosemite Sam!


Is that Y' sem-it-ee or Yose-might? :wah:

OOps - that'll teach me to speed read - sorry Tiger

koochikoo wrote: I have an Aunt that always mispronounces (and misspells) spaghetti as spra-getti. She realised it was wrong one day when it didn't fit into a crossword puzzle :rolleyes:


That was because spra-getti doesn't have a hyphen in it

Clancy wrote: The 23rd precint record store, was always good on a saturday morning



1) Have you got the new, Linriid Skinrid album....?

2) Have you got the new, Bonnie Riot single ?

3) Have you got, Bob Marleys greatest hits in stock ? It's a present for the boy, he's dead keen on reggy music.

4) Can I order, Elsie Brooks single , Lilac Wine, here ?


And Julio Inglesias

Chic :wah:

In Australia, there are three lines, just like the Mason-Dixon line in the US.

Above the Brisbane line they've all "gone troppo" and have that glazed looks in their eyes. We call them "banana benders" or "bonkers" for short.

Below the Adelaide line they saw Kass el, drink Fosters and play "Aerial pingpong" ie Australian rules. We call them "our Mexicans".

Tasmanian's are not real Australians because we often leave them off the maps.

It's all very simple. NSW and parts of South Australia are dinky die Aussies.

Take care,

Gordon. :-6 :-6 :-6

I can never pronounce this properly: Worcestershire

but it tastes good on meat!

:-6 :-6 :-6 :-3

Diuretic wrote: I'll get in first - not cos I'm a smartie but cos I like to help if I can

Wooster-sheer - except the second syllable is very short, not so much sheeeeer as shir - obviously I'm hopeless at phonetic symbols though lol

How's that?


You know, everytime someone else says it, it sounds easy, and then I try to say it and it comes out: wshhshrrrteer sauce!

koochikoo wrote: Where place names are concerned, mispronunciation would be quite prolific. Most Tasmanians get very irked when one of our cities, Launceston, is pronounced Lawn sess ton. It is pronounced Lon sestern.






LIES !

Nomad hit 8,000!:)

Ha-make those feet dance faster!

Lawn Cistern?? :-2

Wow, silent double p's and f's!