Dev Announcements for Increasing Vocabulary
By
Arctic_Princess,
Posted on: 2009-05-06 10:44 in Suggestions and Ideas
Educate the masses!!
I fully support Judgment_Dave's Dev's Increasing Vocabulary Word of the Week movement.
My word(s):
I like the word 'Ineffectual'
especially followed by 'idiot'
The phrase just rrrrrooooollls off the tongue, don't it?
-Morty
[Edit: JD: That's not a derogatory disclosure, just a calamitous coincidence.]
I cna lift heavy things
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Guess there's probably enough placenames with odd pronunciations in the UK - but I don't notice them as much having grown up with them.
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Oh, there are. The one that gets me, and most other english speakers not from Britain is Pall Mall...
Now we have call, ball, fall, tall and wall, so why do you say it Pal Mal? 
Don't sweat it - you Brits can't even pronounce tomato properly 
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But you Yanks can't even pronounce yoghurt right
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Don't sweat it - you Brits can't even pronounce tomato properly
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you say tomato, I say ketchup, let's call the whole thing off
@craggy see me on Union for TFs, SFs (please!) or just some good ol fashioned teaming.
Aluminium.
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Don't sweat it - you Brits can't even pronounce tomato properly
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you say tomato, I say ketchup, let's call the whole thing off
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Seeing as english is the language we all seem to be speaking, british people pronounce everything correctly, and as for everyone else it's down to accent, or you're just plain wrong.
British ftw.
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Don't sweat it - you Brits can't even pronounce tomato properly
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you say tomato, I say ketchup, let's call the whole thing off
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Seeing as english is the language we all seem to be speaking, british people pronounce everything correctly, and as for everyone else it's down to accent, or you're just plain wrong.
British ftw.
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How can Brits pronounce it properly when they can't even spell the words properly?
@Golden Girl
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Seeing as english is the language we all seem to be speaking, british people pronounce everything correctly, and as for everyone else it's down to accent, or you're just plain wrong.
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Which British people would that be? Geordies, Brummies or Scousers?
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Aluminium.
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Makes me wonder if 'You can call me Al' was Paul Simon's attempt to unify the British and American nations in using the periodic table rather than squabbling over spelling.
BTW whilst aluminium is the international norm, as with many variations between English and that funny bastardised version that the Americans use, it's not actually the Americans getting it wrong so much as using a word that was once correct but that the rest of the world decided not to use.
This makes for interesting reading on aluminium. TL;DR - the discoverer of aluminium used 'aluminium' at first, but a few years later used 'aluminum'. So both spellings were used by it's own discoverer.
On a similar note 'grey' and 'gray' were both common in English, with one being dark grey/gray and the other a lighter colour (though I can never recall which was which). And IIRC drapes and faucets were also common middle English.
Quite a lot of the variation in language is due to America keeping the vocabulary that was common in Britain at the time of it's main settling, whilst the language of Britain moved on and the common American words fell out of vogue in the UK.
But, dammit, it's called English, it is our language. So we must be right.
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Guess there's probably enough placenames with odd pronunciations in the UK - but I don't notice them as much having grown up with them.
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I can certainly agree with that living, as I do, in Avoch (Och) and travelling across the Sgitheach (Skiach) most mornings with a fiancée that lives in Milngavie (Mullguy).
Don't even get me started on 'schedule' (shed-yule)...
And as, afaik, no one on here is remotely Australian, what's with that whole 'sentences ending up higher' thing?
Also, project is not pronounced 'pro-ject'! I'll brandish my blunderbuss at anyone who suggests otherwise!
Cambo is an Ausie and so was ghost Raptor, not seen Cambo around for a while now I think about it
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
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Don't sweat it - you Brits can't even pronounce tomato properly
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you say tomato, I say ketchup, let's call the whole thing off
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Seeing as english is the language we all seem to be speaking, british people pronounce everything correctly, and as for everyone else it's down to accent, or you're just plain wrong.
British ftw.
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How can Brits pronounce it properly when they can't even spell the words properly?
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Like a US vice-president and his potatoe?
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Cambo is an Ausie and so was ghost Raptor, not seen Cambo around for a while now I think about it
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And I'm Kiwi, although I would hit anyone who called me slightly Autsrailian.
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Cambo is an Ausie and so was ghost Raptor, not seen Cambo around for a while now I think about it
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And I'm Kiwi, although I would hit anyone who called me slightly Autsrailian.
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North or South?
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
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Some of the talk about mispronunciation sounds like extreme hyper-bowl-ee to me.
Think the worst I noticed in the past were usually US placenames - some of the rivers/lakes etc with indian names seem to be pronounced very differently to anything I could imagine from the spelling. Heck - even Arkansas seems a little odd when you first hit it and know the straightforward Kansas.
Guess there's probably enough placenames with odd pronunciations in the UK - but I don't notice them as much having grown up with them.
Though there are also some great English names and surnames with wild and wacky pronunciation - IIRC this is part of the reason why English names get a whole chapter to themselves in Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue.
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There's a village near me called Tarring Neville - I always feel a pang of sadness every time I go through it, imagining poor Neville on the high seas...
Apparently it's pronounced Ta-ring (Ta, with the cat sound - forums do not make good phonetics translators) Neville. Pfft.
Also, I know it's not a placename exactly, but Cockshut Road in Lewes always makes me laugh. *giggles* - even moreso if you pronounce the first syllable slowly...
And as for the surname Cockburn...