How do you pronounce....

[cee-dee]

How do you pronounce the word Subaru?

Do you say "Soo-bah-roo" or is it "Soo-bar-oo" with emphasis on the "bar"?

For an on-going thread, what other words can you think of which have questionable or alternative pronunciations?

[jd.linklater]

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@**bustysinclaire** wrote:

Another pronunciation I have an argument (friendly of course), especially with people of Birmingham as I originally come from Bedfordshire is how the letter H is pronounced.

Is it haitch or aitch, I always pronounce it aitch but people from where I live in the West Midlands including Brummies pronounce it haitch, so I saw house is spelt ..........aitch oh you es were.......... And my fellow midlanders say it is spelt .......haitch oo how es eee......

Really is strange to me, I do believe my version is the correct version ...... The queens English.  Xxxx. Or Kings lol which ever you feel is correct xxx

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I once asked a Brummie to spell Egypt.........Ay-Jay-woy-pay-tay

[**bustysinclaire**]

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@jd.linklater wrote:

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@**bustysinclaire** wrote:

Another pronunciation I have an argument (friendly of course), especially with people of Birmingham as I originally come from Bedfordshire is how the letter H is pronounced.

Is it haitch or aitch, I always pronounce it aitch but people from where I live in the West Midlands including Brummies pronounce it haitch, so I saw house is spelt ..........aitch oh you es were.......... And my fellow midlanders say it is spelt .......haitch oo how es eee......

Really is strange to me, I do believe my version is the correct version ...... The queens English.  Xxxx. Or Kings lol which ever you feel is correct xxx

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I once asked a Brummie to spell Egypt.........Ay-Jay-woy-pay-tay

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Haha,xxxxx my OH is a Brummie and he calls it Egg-wiped.  Lol XXX

Here's another .............

How would you pronounce extraordinary,  some say it exrtra - ordinary, I don't agree with that but say it as extruadinary. I do spell it correctly though xxxxx

[al**bear]

Far too many people on our TVs now, who pronounce their Rs as Ws 

(a very small % have real Rhotacism)

also far too many on out TVs pronoucing their H (aitches) as haitchs

Both have increased in usage on TV dramtically since we last argued about it on here

[fallen-archie]

In this part of the world locals don't sound the H when its is required so Hawk becomes Awk, but they then sound the H where it isn't needed, Oak becomes Hoke.

As for people on TV the former footballer Charlie Nicholas in his role as a pundit on Sky described the lead up to a goal as follows,

"He's came Down the left and went inside before slipping it past the keeper"

And while we are at if anyone remember Moira Stewart's Guyerrrrrrrillas?

[cee-dee]

Yes, that's how the medical profession pronounce it but why?

We don't take the doj for a walk or say "dojjone it"?

[jd.linklater]

I do my best to pronounce things correctly on the whole but I must admit to rarely sounding the A in extraordinary if it's in the middle of a sentence.  For some reason I usually sound it for emphasis if it ends a sentence, don't know why.

[jd.linklater]

There are lots of words beginning with a silent H in English eg hour, honour, heirloom but for some reason it really grates when I hear someone say that they stayed in an 'otel. It's perfectly correct as most of these words came from French where the h is always silent, but it just sounds so wrong to me.

[al**bear]

Sorry on rereading my post

I should have written

also far too many on our TVs pronouncing  H (aitch) as haitch

I meant the letter not as part of a word

[astrologica]

Recently I have heard some TV presenters conjure up an 'a' in the middle of the word 'athletics'...pronouncing it 'athletics'. It sounds really ridiculous!

[astrologica]

That should read 'athaletics'.....the iPad autocorrected it!

[*.*..lola..*.*]

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@jd.linklater wrote:

Toyota is not pronounced as we say it (Toy-oh-ta) in Japan. The Japanese have no 'oy' sound and never end a syllable with a Y, the correct pronunciation is Toh-Yoh-Tah.

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Toh-Yoh-Tah

It's impossible to say that without sounding as if you've been born and raised in Japan love it!

Tanjooberrymutts

If you don't know what that means, Google it...it's funny

[cee-dee]

Heck, I've had conversations like that. Very frustrating and annoying.

[*.*..lola..*.*]

Me too...funny though  

[cee-dee]

Wohuwon? Beecurryaboiriy?

[*.*..lola..*.*]

Even Google is flummoxed LOL

What do you want? I carry your bags?

[cee-dee]

It's meant to be, "What you want? Beef curry and boiled rice?"

[*.*..lola..*.*]

Oh...

Guess that explains why I got turned down for that job as a translator LOL

[cee-dee]

The take-away used to answer like that every time. Sometimes it'd be "uwohfwyri?"

[*.*..lola..*.*]

You want fried rice?

I can't pronounce the word 'crisps' properly.

I say crispspsps.

If I try to stop adding the extra psps at the end, I end up missing the p off altogether and say criss.

[cee-dee]

I'm off to do tea but it ain't a take-away (not had one for years).