Simple words you mispronounce

[Bonefish Blues]

I enjoyed the frightfully snooty lady who used to work for me talking about research into genital heart disease...

...and yes I ruddy well did - chances like that don't come up very often

 

[MikeG]

Weren't they taught that at shool?

No idea. Do you check on how all your kid's teachers pronuncipate their worms? I doubt very much if stuff like this is learned from adults. It's picked up from peers, I reckon.

 

[Deafie]

IKEA

eye-key-ah or ick-ay-ah?

Swedish people pronounce it the second way.

 

[MikeG]

I think that was an affectation invented by the Victorian English because the thought it made them sound posher.

I don't think so. I think it's because of the French origin of the words (not all words starting with "H"), and the French don't pronounce an initial H.

 

[MikeG]

Swedish people pronounce it the second way.

I thought that too until I heard "Last Word" last week on the guy who started Ikea. It seems they pronounce it ee kee ah.

 

[raleighnut]

No idea. Do you check on how all your kid's teachers pronuncipate their worms? I doubt very much if stuff like this is learned from adults. It's picked up from peers, I reckon.

So how do you pronounce 'Schematics'

 

[Deafie]

[QUOTE 5142032, member: 45"]You also get Americans that say "can you bring" when they mean "can you take". But that's just using the wrong word, not mispronunciation.
My Mrs does that and she's from Marston Green, never heard a Yank say it and I would notice coz it really ticks me off.
Oregano. Herbs.[/QUOTE]

 

[Deafie]

I thought that too until I heard "Last Word" last week on the guy who started Ikea. It seems they pronounce it ee kee ah.

Ah! now you mention it...... been a long time since I worked with a Swede'

 

[MikeG]

So how do you pronounce 'Schematics'

Skeematticks.

Though, thought, through, bough, tough...........surely no-one would attempt to work out pronunciation from the spelling!!

 

[glasgowcyclist]

So how do you pronounce 'Schematics'

D-r-a-w-i-n-g-s

 

[glasgowcyclist]

No idea. Do you check on how all your kid's teachers pronuncipate their worms? I doubt very much if stuff like this is learned from adults. It's picked up from peers, I reckon.

Sorry, that was my rubbish attempt at humour on the comparative pronuncifications of schedule and school.

 

[MikeG]

Sorry, that was my rubbish attempt at humour on the comparative pronuncifications of schedule and school.

Damn! Too subtle for me.......but I should have spotted it. Mea culpa.

 

[ADarkDraconis]

I thought that too until I heard "Last Word" last week on the guy who started Ikea. It seems they pronounce it ee kee ah.

All of the commercials here call it 'Eye-KEE-uh. I have never heard it called anything else, but I don't really know any Swedish folks.

 

[robjh]

D-r-a-w-i-n-g-s

Not d-r-a-w-R-i-n-g-s? It is for me.

 

[ADarkDraconis]

Not d-r-a-w-R-i-n-g-s? It is for me.

Better than d-r-a-w-L-i-n-g-s, which I hear sometimes.