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If you are a pedantic fuckhead who bitches about how people pronounce...
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Posts: 3151 (07/04/09 9:27 PM) A subnic, please |
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 Bernard Wrangler |
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Posts: 15461 (07/04/09 9:29 PM) this won't end well.
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feb you airy.
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Anne Boleyn |
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Posts: 3152 (07/04/09 9:30 PM) A subnic, please |
buzzzer
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tke034 |
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Posts: 136 (07/04/09 9:35 PM) I don't get |
Zeep wrote:Ok. But in my defense, I live in the upper midwest, and apparently I don't get out much. I still hate warsh, though. |
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Bernard Wrangler |
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Posts: 15464 (07/04/09 9:39 PM) this won't end well.
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feb brew airy?
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SmrtAss |
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Posts: 6843 (07/04/09 9:42 PM) Lazy ass bitch, please |
<----admitted pedantic fuckhead.
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Cosmodemonic |
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Posts: 34 (07/04/09 11:39 PM) |
Pardon my pedantry, but what the fuck is it with people who speak normally but still pronounce didn't as di-int?
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tke034 |
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Posts: 149 (07/04/09 11:46 PM) I don't get |
My sister in law does that. She also says coo'n't, woo'n't, libarry, and she says Tyenall instead of Tylenol.
My poor niece and nephew. |
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RomCen |
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Posts: 17658 (07/05/09 12:31 AM) Registered User |
I say warter instead of water and also warsh for wash. I blame my parents. They both grew up on cotton farms in Georgia. And I can't even SAY the words
cinnamon or aluminum with getting tongue tied..
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survivorjb2003 |
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Posts: 7111 (07/05/09 1:58 AM) Hellooooo Nurse |
honeybadger wrote: Clique IS pronounced click. |
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Pseudo Propaganda |
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Posts: 2603 (07/05/09 2:15 AM) |
And niche is pronounced nitch.
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yukugajoob |
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Posts: 1397 (07/05/09 7:03 AM) |
Niche IS pronounced "nich," but clique can be pronounced "klik" or "kleek."
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Beefcake |
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Posts: 3522 (07/05/09 7:20 AM) Registered User |
There's a difference between mispronouncing a word and using a regional dialect.
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yukugajoob |
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Posts: 1400 (07/05/09 7:24 AM) |
Agreed. But is "liberry" a mispronunciation or a regional dialect?
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Beefcake |
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Posts: 3525 (07/05/09 7:32 AM) Registered User |
I say "Libarry", "sammich", "warsh" and "Missourah'. I've never had anyone not understand what I mean by those
words.
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yukugajoob |
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Posts: 1402 (07/05/09 7:36 AM) |
So, then, your position is that it is a regional dialect.
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Beefcake |
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Posts: 3527 (07/05/09 7:41 AM) Registered User |
Hell, I don't know. And I don't care. Mostly, I think that people who have a need to "correct" how other people pronounce words are usually
trying to use language to reinforce the class structure ("I am so much better than you because I pronounce words 'properly'") rather than to
communicate.
Elitism annoys me. |
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survivorjb2003 |
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Posts: 7112 (07/05/09 8:08 AM) Hellooooo Nurse |
Pseudo Propaganda wrote: No, niche is pronounced neesh. Clique is definately click though, unless you want to be pretentious and pretend you're French, in which case it'd be kleek. |
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yukugajoob |
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Posts: 1407 (07/05/09 8:25 AM) |
While "neesh" is an alternate pronunciation, the first pronunciation listed at both dictionary.com and m-w.com is "nich." m-w also allows "nish." |
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honeybadger |
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Posts: 199 (07/05/09 8:40 AM) |
I don't understand "click" at all. unique, antique, boutique, critique, technique, oblique... every other word in the english language ending
with -ique is pronounced the same way except for clique? also, if we're using online dictionaries as our sources, m-w.com lists "kleek" first. so
does dictionary.com
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