Words That You Pronounce Different From How They Are Spelled

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06 Jan 2021, 3:34 am

spelled - spelt
butter - budder

I'm from Ontario, Canada.
Add your own examples and location pl0x. :nerdy:

pl0x - pleeze

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06 Jan 2021, 3:47 am

Flower = Plawer :lol:
Vibration = Baybreysyon.

Location: Guess.

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06 Jan 2021, 4:05 am

Edna3362 wrote:

Flower = Plawer :lol:

Vibration = Baybreysyon.

Location: Guess.

Is it bad that I like paying attention to how foreign born co-workers say things just to see how sounds I take for granted are hard for other people? (because I know how many sounds I can't make for the life of me like rolled rs or that ch/gh spitting on the floor sound)

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06 Jan 2021, 4:29 am

Orange = ARR-ange

Cauliflower = COLLIE-flower

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06 Jan 2021, 4:59 am

Bicester = Bister

During the war American soldiers/aircrew could not say this and often called it Bi-cester.

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06 Jan 2021, 5:16 am

Worcester = Wooster (literally)

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06 Jan 2021, 5:52 am

I'm from Michigan. It seems to me that people from this state butcher most words (myself included) mainly because we say them through a nasal-y filter. :lol: seriously, it's like we talk out of our noses here.

Socks becomes saaks

Crayons becomes craanz

A lot of people around me say melk instead of milk. Also hunnerd instead of hundred. I do not.

Something else I find funny is how fast people talk here. Things like "Did you know" become one word, didjano spoken quickly, so the word doesn't freeze before it leaves our mouths or something.

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06 Jan 2021, 6:06 am

cyberdad wrote:

Worcester = Wooster (literally)

Worcester = Wuhstah

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06 Jan 2021, 6:56 am

Schedule - Shedule (although I prefer to pronounce it as "schedule").

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06 Jan 2021, 7:47 am

Joe90 wrote:

Schedule - Shedule (although I prefer to pronounce it as "schedule").

What is the difference between those two?

I, and most Americans pronounce it "sked-j-yule", or "skehdjawool". Always starting with an "sk" sound.

Rarely you hear someone say "shed-ja-wool" (with an sh sound instead of an "sk" sound). But thats only in movies with Brit characters, or when a real life person is joking around to sound humorously high fallutin' (always said with thier nose in the air).

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06 Jan 2021, 9:56 am

Edna3362 wrote:

Flower = Plawer :lol:

Vibration = Baybreysyon.

Location: Guess.

Mabuhay na ang Pilipinas!

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06 Jan 2021, 9:58 am

My submission is "ghoti".

That is "gh" and in "enough", "o" as in "women", and "ti" as in "motion".

Hence "ghoti" is pronounced "fish".

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06 Jan 2021, 10:27 am

Nearly everything that comes out of my mouth. One time an old man asked, "Where do you get your accent from? You don't get it from Britain and you don't get it from Canada." I was afraid to tell him anything. That was 20 years ago, mind you. Another old man from that same home that I volunteered at said that I had a low voice that sounded like a German brogue.

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06 Jan 2021, 11:20 am

Chasm - Most folks and I pronounce it "KAZum", but one native born American guy I know pronounced it as spelled with the "ch" sound: CHAZ-um. Sounded really strange.

Most often I hear folks pronounce the word "often" as "offen", but once in a while I hear it pronounced as spelled. "Off-ten".

A friend, and some cab driver in NYC who was on TV news for two seconds as a witness to something or other, are the only two people I have ever heard to actually pronounce the word "women" as spelled. "Wo-men". Most folks, including I, say "wim-min".

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06 Jan 2021, 11:31 am

Today is Whensday rather than Wed-Nes-Day

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06 Jan 2021, 12:04 pm

I always assumed that "Thule" ( both the mythical city of the ancient Greeks that was supposed to be at the edge of the world, and the real modern city in Greenland named after it)was pronounced "Thool" (like tool). Gives it a chilling Norse sound. But it's actually pronounced "Two-lee". A rather light and fluffy name for ... such a god forsaken place! Lol!

Greta's last name is "TOON-berg", and not "THUN-berg".

A newscaster on cable recently pronounced the word "lunatic" as "loon- ATTIC". Kinda like "automatic", or "vego-matic".

When the moon is full...I just cant stop myself from...insanely dicing vegetables! :lol:

Apparently his collegues ribbed him for it. And in subsequent appearances he did correctly say "LOON-a- tick" while cracking a sheepish smile.

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