I swear I will Slap the Shit out of the Next Person....

[borg69unimatrix]

I have a friend that says "BirFday" instead of BirTHday, and "finner" instead of finger. Drives me Insane. My BF says, "Howscome" instead of "how come"... it's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

[xbuzzerx]

I gotta exscape from this thread.

[thatgirl]

I don't think anyone else does this, it's more like an idiosyncrasy, but...

I always pronounce year like EAR. And ears like YEARS.

I don't even know. I try to make a conscious effort to not do this but it's always stuck with me from my ESL days. lmao

[bankside]

Yeah, I don't really come across many black people who use axe/axed in place of ask/asked. And I don't use it myself.

But perhaps it's more of an American thing because I do notice a lot of black (and white) Americans pronouncing it like that...

We actually don't get enough real live Americans in Edmonton for me to say, but everyone I know of any ethnicity in this part of the country says "ask."

Now if we could get the Brits to stop saying "bruvver" or "bovvered."

[herry1]

Yeah, I don't really come across many black people who use axe/axed in place of ask/asked. And I don't use it myself.

But perhaps it's more of an American thing because I do notice a lot of black (and white) Americans pronouncing it like that...

According to this it's still used in parts of England

The ascian version gives us the modern standard English ask, but the axian variant ax can still be found in England's Midland and Southern dialects.

http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/inde...?date=19991216

[G-Lexington]

We actually don't get enough real live Americans in Edmonton for me to say, but everyone I know of any ethnicity in this part of the country says "ask."

Now if we could get the Brits to stop saying "bruvver" or "bovvered."

It's a pisser, innit?

Lex

[thatgirl]

Hm. I guess the asked/axed thing just stands out to me more when Americans use it (usually because their accents are more comparable to Canadian ones).

Most of my exposure to Americans and Brits = films and television so I can't say I have a lot of first hand experience with it.

Now if we could get the Brits to stop saying "bruvver" or "bovvered."

Oh. I thought this was just limited to people with a Cockney accent. I think it's kind of cute. lol

[bankside]

Hm. I guess the asked/axed thing just stands out to me more when Americans use it (usually because their accents are more comparable to Canadian ones).

Most of my exposure to Americans and Brits = films and television so I can't say I have a lot of first hand experience with it.



Oh. I thought this was just limited to people with a Cockney accent. I think it's kind of cute. lol

It's not universally British, but I don't know the exact boundaries.

Also if the Brits are going to screw up "ask" it comes out as "ox." Can I ox you a question?

Also also, you mentioned ESL before - for some reason I can hear through people's accents when they have learned to speak English later in life, and I don't find accents to be distracting even when their language learning is not perfect or you have to work to understand a word that is technically mispronounced in a way that affects comprehension.

It's more like hearing words that are pronounced with a local accent, a different accent, or just wrong. The first two categories are great; the last one...

[borg69unimatrix]

Paula Dean ... pretty much anything that comes out of her mouth grates on me.
Y'Aaaaall.

[guyfromNY]

I can't stand the over-use of the words "really" and "seriously".. People seem to use those words constantly as a response to something that surprises them... Sickens me...

[G-Lexington]

Worse than the overuse "really" and "seriously" - the misuse of "literally". "I literally died when he came in the door."

Online, my biggest pet peeve is the use of "lol" to mean "the end". No matter what's being discussed. "So my aunt is in the hospital and the doctors really don't know what's wrong. Hoping for the best lol"

Lex

[jensu846]

throwing the grammer hammer down!!! I hear people say "amblee-ence" instead of "ambulance" thats my pet peeve.

[G-Lexington]

People spelling grammar as "grammer".

Lex

[bankside]

OH! And one from the World of Gay:

"Looking for athletic masculine dominate top."


NO.

You are looking for an athletic, masculine, dominant top. Get it right, or I'll make you do all the boy jobs like shovelling the sidewalk or putting out the garbage.

[MawellEvans]

best video ever!

[Stoowii]

It looks like a lot of JUBbers are acting like a bunch of pre-Madonnas.

Lex

I see what you did there.

[G-Lexington]

OH! And one from the World of Gay:

"Looking for athletic masculine dominate top."


NO.

You are looking for an athletic, masculine, dominant top. Get it right, or I'll make you do all the boy jobs like shovelling the sidewalk or putting out the garbage.

Are they looking for someone who is "st8-acting"? I see that a lot, too. "State-acting"?

Lex

[Kahaih]

‘Garage’ is one that seems as though I’ve never heard it pronounce the same way twice.

grodge

g ‘raaaj

graj

gare ‘roj

‘gare roj

gah ‘radj

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?

The ‘d’ always amuses me, but sometimes I wish some people would go back to ‘carriage house’.

[Keeland]

You mean the car hole.

[cockbrain]

I gotta exscape from this thread.

very funny.

[Falcon16]

I constantly talk to people from Rho Dieland.

[Axxess]

Menstration instead of menstruation. People tend to ignore the U in the word for whatever reason.

[thatgirl]

OH! And one from the World of Gay:

"Looking for athletic masculine dominate top."


NO.

Are they looking for someone who is "st8-acting"? I see that a lot, too. "State-acting"?

Lex

I am dying.

Dominate state-acting guys. They're so hot and masculine.

[RaKroma]

Couldn't you have at least waited until after Black History Month?

Black history, what's that?

[dereperez]

Eh....ee-kuh-nom-iks versus eh-kuh-nom-iks. Same deal.

[ChickenGuy]

Tokyo

Toe-KEEEEE-oh.

No.

Is that near PEE-king?

Lex

"He's Chineeezzze"

Hmm. I say all of those words just like you describe, and I'm not aware of any OTHER way to pronounce them except that way. Care to enlighten me?

And as some are having a go at the Brits - its Mishigan, not Mitch-again.

Ha! I've always said Mitchygan - you mean it's supposed to be Mishygan?

And tell me - is it really meant to be 'Conn-NET-icut' instead of 'Conn-nekt-icut'?

P.S. It was ages and well into my twenties before I realised it was 'Arkan-SAW' and not 'Ark-Kansas'.

P.P.S. You will NEVER have me say Caribbean any way except 'Carib-BEE-an.' I refuse any other way.

[PreTTy PeTe]

Who pronounces it Feb-yew-ary instead of Feb-Roo-Ary.

Every year, my ear-drums are perforated with this maladroit mispronunciation.

Just tell people to stop it.

Think of the fucking children.

I hear you. I want to slap anyone that says Lie-berry instead Library

[borg69unimatrix]

I've found most people can't say "Oregon" correctly.

[HoodedRat]

Black history, what's that?

History without white people presumably?

There's probably 'brown history,' 'yellow history, 'red history', 'pink history' etc, etc.

[ChickenGuy]

I've found most people can't say "Oregon" correctly.

Orr-reh-GON / Orr-rih-GON

....is how I pronouce it. (I put in two because I say somewhere 'in between' those two vowels)

[xbuzzerx]

Hmm. I say all of those words just like you describe, and I'm not aware of any OTHER way to pronounce them except that way. Care to enlighten me?

In Japanese "To" and "Kyo" are single syllables. Kyo doesn't become key-oh. It's kyo. Like yo with just a k in front. Toe kyo. Lots of English speakers make Tokyo a 3 syllable name when it's 2 syllables. Like if I pronounced your name Chi-kkey-ken guy.

And technically, "Chinese" is just a pet peeve when people say neeeeze like Ebeneezer, it's not really right or wrong since it's just an English word that they don't use themselves anyway, but I still say it more like Chai-niece rather than neeezzzzz.

[BreakTheIce]

Cannot be worse than every black person I come across pronouncing ask as ax. Drives me insane.

[BreakTheIce]

Paula Dean ... pretty much anything that comes out of her mouth grates on me.
Y'Aaaaall.

Didn't her cooking give her diabetes or something, and now she publishes books with cooking recipes for people with diabetes or something?

I'm not sure but I vaguely remember hearing that in the news and being like no shit with all the sugar, salt, etc. she uses in her food.

[Solid Gold]

i can't stand when news reporters say someone has Gone Missing!

[borg69unimatrix]

Didn't her cooking give her diabetes or something, and now she publishes books with cooking recipes for people with diabetes or something?

I'm not sure but I vaguely remember hearing that in the news and being like no shit with all the sugar, salt, etc. she uses in her food.

Yes... she used to cook with pounds and pounds of butter. She later came out diabetic! She hasn't tempered her cooking much though, IMO.

[G-Lexington]

In Japanese "To" and "Kyo" are single syllables. Kyo doesn't become key-oh. It's kyo. Like yo with just a k in front. Toe kyo. Lots of English speakers make Tokyo a 3 syllable name when it's 2 syllables. Like if I pronounced your name Chi-kkey-ken guy.

It's part of that Japanese-English dynamic, when the two languages have trouble moving from one to the other. My first name has one syllable in English, but three in Japanese. Japanese would probably say my nickname as "U-rek-su" instead of "Lex", but does that mean they're "saying it wrong"?

Lex

[xbuzzerx]

Yes... she used to cook with pounds and pounds of butter. She later came out diabetic! She hasn't tempered her cooking much though, IMO.

There was temporary big drama over that with people acting like it was the public picking on her personally for her medical condition but ... if you're on TV preparing massively caloric, high fat foods... and you yourself are diabetic from a lifetime of eating this stuff, I think it's pretty pertinent to the audience to know that.

[xbuzzerx]

It's part of that Japanese-English dynamic, when the two languages have trouble moving from one to the other. My first name has one syllable in English, but three in Japanese. Japanese would probably say my nickname as "U-rek-su" instead of "Lex", but does that mean they're "saying it wrong"?

Lex

My guess is it's written with 3 syllables but with silent vowels for some of them?

[borg69unimatrix]

There was temporary big drama over that with people acting like it was the public picking on her personally for her medical condition but ... if you're on TV preparing massively caloric, high fat foods... and you yourself are diabetic from a lifetime of eating this stuff, I think it's pretty pertinent to the audience to know that.

There was a JUB mob with pitchforks and torches once this news came out. People were pretty heated over Paula Dean.

[G-Lexington]

My guess is it's written with 3 syllables but with silent vowels for some of them?

Semi-silent. Much like "Lex" would probably sound like "uh-REHK-uh-S-uh", with only the "REH" vowel being pretty prominent.

Lex

[xbuzzerx]

Semi-silent. Much like "Lex" would probably sound like "uh-REHK-uh-S-uh", with only the "REH" vowel being pretty prominent.

Lex

Rekusu, I believe.

[Stoowii]

Route: Root or Rowt?

[bankside]

Route: Root or Rowt?

Root.

[BENDERBOY]

[Willie Boy]

I want to slap the shit out of the next person who complains about something petty

So I can't complain about Tom?

[penayforay]

[HoodedRat]

Route: Root or Rowt?

English-speakers say 'root'.

[Willie Boy]

In all honesty I probably wouldn't slap someone, but I just might kick the ass of the next person who asks me if they can "acks" me something. Or I just might axe them instead. (Not really, but in this context it is a bit humorous).

[borg69unimatrix]

cimmonin instead of Cinnamon.

[xbuzzerx]