The Pronunciation Thread

[Dogtrousers]

The second option for the rover name sounds natural to me, being a word of Latin origin and all that, but I'm not a native speaker and my English is wobbly, so I probably got that one wrong.

It's sounds better doesn't it? I know it's wrong, or at least it's not the accepted standard, but it's still better IMO

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Schedule.

Everybody I know over c45 years of age, correctly pronounces this with a silent "c".

Younger than this, it tends to be pronounced with a "k".

Does my head in.

I say it with the k sound, although both ways are correct.
I learned that at shool, sorry, school.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

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[Electric_Andy]

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

This is a tough one even in Devon and Cornwall. Some folk think scone (cone) is the posh prenunciation but I disagree. My mum's side of the family had the broadest, most country bumpkin accent going, and they all said Scone (to rhyme with cone), and think that Scon is the posh way

 

[Electric_Andy]

Schedule and Skedule - I know the hard K sound is how Americans pronounce it, but when I look at the word I can't help saying it the American way. It makes me sound like I'm trying to be trans-atlantic but in reality I've just got confused so mnay times and my now default is to pronounce it with a hard k (or C technically)

 

[Beebo]

The British pronunciation of Lieutenant is just silly.
It’s one of the only times that the US are correct.

 

[Mr Celine]

My-thum-roid.

Scone as in bone

Having lived in Perth I can confirm that it's Scone as in boon.

 

[OldShep]

What about these weirdo's who say skelington in stead of skeleton. Or those who go to a cinema to watch a fillum. Or those who say "that'll learn you" instead of teach. Oh God, you've got me started now!!!

Be kind to us weirdos 😊. Brought up a bit further up the coast from East Riding it’ll always be a fillum to me. Until my mid teens I couldn’t pronounce shoulder. They were soldiers to me. 😂

 

[presta]

Mass'm is correct, Masham is what you do to potatoes.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Not exactly a mispronunciation this, but my mate calls a puncture a pumpture. It’s what he thought people were saying and it was logical (to him) because you used a pump after suffering a pumpture.

He’s in his 60s now and still says it.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Not exactly a mispronunciation this, but my mate calls a puncture a pumpture. It’s what he thought people were saying and it was logical (to him) because you used a pump after suffering a pumpture.

He’s in his 60s now and still says it.

Like it. It's an improvement

 

[Toshiba Boy]

I say it with the k sound, although both ways are correct.
I learned that at shool, sorry, school.

The idiosyncrasies of the English language, and how it evolves across regions and English speaking countries, has led us to this place and, indeed, this thread.

However, for me "skedule" is just plain wrong, but that's just me, a 60 year old, 42 years
in the English Midlands and then 18 years in West Somerset.

Used to be amused by "incomers" to Warwickshire calling the various roads and avenues named Beauchamp (after aritisocracy in the region "back in the day") ... "Bow-cham" when all the locals said / knew it was pronounced "Beecham". To be fair, the incomers version made more sense.

Anyway, just going off to try out a new pronunciation "skeme" that I've seen.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I remember a story from a friend at university who was from Braintree in Essex. They were constantly told off at school for pronouncing "th" as "f".

When she wrote about a school visit to a dairy, where they saw machines that put milk into bottles, she was disappointed to see red marks correcting her spelling where she had written about the "thilling machines" that thilled up the milk bottles

 

[Electric_Andy]

I'm sure we have all known someone who pronounces chimney as "chimley"! Or is that just a Devon thing?
I had a mate at Uni who pronounced onion as "ugnion"; probably a childhood thing that he never grew out of.

I do find this stuff interesting though - we may not like these newfangled mis-pronunciations but they have made our language what it is today. I heard a reproduction of how someone would have sounded in the 1500s and it (the 25% I could understand) sounded like a cross between Nordic and Scottish. We are just part of an ever-evolving chorus of speak

 

[Drago]

My first job from school while waiting to get in the army ws jn an electronics factory. A guy there pronounced violet as violent, and it made me want to be violent to hear it.