The Pronunciation Thread

[PeteXXX]

Controversy or controversy? 🤔

 

[PeteXXX]

Yoghurt..
Yoget or Yowgert

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Yoghurt..
Yoget or Yowgert

Yoggutt

 

[Rusty Nails]

I always understood that it was 'Shrow'?

I've got family there and even they are divided over it.

 

[Regular.Cyclist]

Place names usually catch people out in terms of pronunciation. A few well known ones in Scotland are Strathaven, Milngavie and Culzean Castle.

 

[Drago]

Yoghurt..
Yoget or Yowgert

Horrible stuff. The s***n of Satan.

 

[Drago]

Place names usually catch people out in terms of pronunciation. A few well known ones in Scotland are Strathaven, Milngavie and Culzean Castle.

A cracker nearby here is Cogenhoe.

But the yokels pronounce it Cook-no.

And Olney, also not far off, is another. One shouldn't pronounce the L, so it should rhyme with pony. Pronounce it Oll-knee and you're marked as an outsider and the moment you're not looking they'll flob in your cappuccino.

 

[oldwheels]

Here it is DERvaig or DerVAIG. Natives use the first and incomers the second.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The big one, the cleft that separates the world into two parts, the argument that leaves skidmarks in its wake:

Yourran-uss
or
Yurr-anus

 

[Drago]

The big one, the cleft that separates the world into two parts, the argument that leaves skidmarks in its wake:

Yourran-uss
or
Yurr-anus

Or Ooh-ran-oos.

 

[Gwylan]

What about all those hieroglyphs in dictionaries that are supposed to help pronounce words.


kudos
noun [ U ]
uk /ˈkjuː.dɒs/ us /ˈkuː.dɑːs/

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Sure

Our lass pronounces it Shore, I correctly say Shoer.

and the all time classic Scone: Correctly pronounced to rhyme with gone and not cone.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

Yoghurt..
Yoget or Yowgert

Say it as it is spelt Yog-hurt.

The nobbers that say Yug hurt, should in my opinion be locked up in the tower.

 

[Brandane]

Place names usually catch people out in terms of pronunciation. A few well known ones in Scotland are Strathaven, Milngavie and Culzean Castle.

Kirkcudbright.

 

[Gwylan]

Say it as it is spelt Yog-hurt.

The nobbers that say Yug hurt, should in my opinion be locked up in the tower.

Where do I send the candidates or do you collect?