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

[refujiunderground]

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.

well... looks like you can't go to the city of baltimore. you know how they love to emphasize their u's.

[Adrock-JD]

[Scealle]

I used to get really annoyed by mispronunciation haha. But my english has dropped so bad I don't really mind anymore as long as I understand what they say.

[borg69unimatrix]

THAT was F'n Hilarious !!!!!!!!

[G-Lexington]

cimmonin instead of Cinnamon.

Is there a synonym for cimmonin?

Lex

[xbuzzerx]

Is there a synonym for cimmonin?

Lex

We'll kill you Lex.

[Keeland]

More importantly, is there a cimmonin for synomyn?

[pat grimshaw]

I'm conscious of how people talk but I reckon the OP has issues with anger.

[rareboy]

There is nothing like the naked abuse any language by native speaker that riles me more.

Oh.

Except for naked jingoism, racism, anti-semitism, closet homophobia and just plain stupidity.

Yeah.

I'd love to slap the shit out of a few people for that as well.

[xbuzzerx]

There is nothing like the naked abuse any language by native speaker that riles me more.

Oh.

Except for naked jingoism, racism, anti-semitism and just plain stupidity.

Yeah.

I'd love to slap the shit out of a few people for that as well.

Take a number and wait in line.

[G-Lexington]

We'll kill you Lex.

Would you consider a sea anemone an enemy?

Lex

[bankside]

There is nothing like the naked abuse any language by native speaker that riles me more.

Oh.

Except for naked jingoism, racism, anti-semitism, closet homophobia and just plain stupidity.

Yeah.

I'd love to slap the shit out of a few people for that as well.

Naked jingoism? So all the bare-arsed guys in the pride parade chanting "Nude is not lewd" bother you that much??

[Willie Boy]

Would you consider a sea anemone an enemy?

Lex

Why? Did you see an enema?

[thatgirl]

cimmonin instead of Cinnamon.

Cimmonin is harder to pronounce than Cinnamon. I don't get it.

It's not like people saying Pacifically instead of Specifically. That, I can understand.

[JWaggy]

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

"Those allegations are a bunch of booter an' owwwwl"

[mitchymo]

Would you consider a sea anemone an enemy?

Lex

Ha, of the sea, there is nought ill us but the nautilus.

[RazorzEdge88]

well... looks like you can't go to the city of baltimore.

That's to his benefit.

[Stoowii]

"Those allegations are a bunch of booter an' owwwwl"

I'm here for Kristen Wiig. She and Maya Rudolph were my favorite on SNL.

[borg69unimatrix]

Ha, of the sea, there is nought ill us but the nautilus.

I still lustfully remember your sexy voice and accent from your YouTube video... I would kill to hear you read poetry.

Would you be offended if I JO`d during it??? LOL.

[mitchymo]

I still lustfully remember your sexy voice and accent from your YouTube video... I would kill to hear you read poetry.

Would you be offended if I JO`d during it??? LOL.

Haha, my voice aint sexy lol, maybe the shortness of my speech in that vid gives a false impression, i'm a lot more common sounding normally. And no, i wouldn't be offended, whatever floats boats is fine by me.

[bankside]

I will slap the shit out of the next person who calls it a "Wind Turban."

It is a turbine. Tur. Bine.

[Sparky-Sparky-Boom-Boom]

You guys are all sound like sloppy now..............

[chrisrobin]

'
Where are you at? instead of Where are you?

[BreakTheIce]

Route: Root or Rowt?

Americans usually pronounce it as Rowt. British/UK people go for Root.

Which brings us to router being pronounced as "Row-ter" or "Rooter".

[BreakTheIce]

Also does Drow rhyme with cow or throw?

[lambdaboy]

How about LIBERRY

[evanrick]

ya try being born in february. FEB RUU ARIE

[rareboy]

It Isn't VEE Hickul.

It is veeickle.

[cityboy-stl]

Americans usually pronounce it as Rowt. British/UK people go for Root.

Depends. I would say "The rowt you should take is root 66".

[xbuzzerx]

It Isn't VEE Hickul.

It is veeickle.

What in tarnation..

[xbuzzerx]

Also does Drow rhyme with cow or throw?

I'm thankfully not nerdy enough to know from firsthand experience, but I did somewhere read online that that exact question is the cause of many severe fights and flamewars in the fantasy / RPG community.

[bankside]

Americans usually pronounce it as Rowt. British/UK people go for Root.

Which brings us to router being pronounced as "Row-ter" or "Rooter".

Router as in the tool used to remove wood, is pronounced "out."
rOUTer.

Also does Drow rhyme with cow or throw?

What or where is Drow? Just looking at it, I would say it rhymes with cow. But I'd also believe it rhyming with "stow."

[bankside]

Oh! Here's one I'm not sure comes from the world of spelling or pronunciation.

First of all, if you are calling your pants your "drawers," you already sound old like my grandpa, and I'm 40. :Twisted: Second, it is "drawers" not "draws." Couldn't even figure that one out the first time I read it. And "drawers" rhymes with "doors." It's basically "doors" with an extra "r." Droors!

[borg69unimatrix]

ValenTIME'S vs ValenTINE'S Day. ♥

[rareboy]

Oh! Here's one I'm not sure comes from the world of spelling or pronunciation.

First of all, if you are calling your pants your "drawers," you already sound old like my grandpa, and I'm 40. :Twisted: Second, it is "drawers" not "draws." Couldn't even figure that one out the first time I read it. And "drawers" rhymes with "doors." It's basically "doors" with an extra "r." Droors!

This was going to be my next one.



The first time I read 'draws' for drawers, I just about popped a head gasket. I wanted to march right down the West Virginyuh dirt road the poster lived on, step over the rusting cars and ole tahrs on the front lawn, shove the dawg outta the way, march rat up the stahrs and set a spell in the Lazyboy on the vranduh, waitin' for Billy bob tuh come out so's ah cud wallop 'im upside his ears.

[G-Lexington]

ValenTIME'S vs ValenTINE'S Day. ♥

And on Halloween, you don't carve a "punkin". It's a "pumpkin". "Punkin" is what Ashton Kutcher or the Ramones used to do (depending on your age).

If something is across the street in two directions, it's catty-corner or kitty-corner, not kittywampus..

Lex

[mark1111]

Y'all need to list your location so's we know if'n your native speakers with local accents, or for'ners. (I spent some time in the south, and we didn't understand each other much)

Where I come from we usually don't pronounce the letter "R". This is a tough month for me to pronounce.

[borg69unimatrix]

And on Halloween, you don't carve a "punkin". It's a "pumpkin". "Punkin" is what Ashton Kutcher or the Ramones used to do (depending on your age).

If something is across the street in two directions, it's catty-corner or kitty-corner, not kittywampus..

Lex

I call my BF "Punkin". There are days when I want to carve him.

[mark1111]

Let's not neglect the first "d" in Wednesday then - I think it's fun to pronounce.
And as some are having a go at the Brits - its Mishigan, not Mitch-again.

Unless your referring to Mitchymo, then I would do Mitch again!

What about Naw linz/New Orleans? Bal'more/Baltimore?

[mark1111]

It Isn't VEE Hickul.

It is veeickle.

None of the above! In these parts its KAA! As in Paak. (and yes, I had a hat attack me)

[thatgirl]

ValenTIME'S vs ValenTINE'S Day. ♥

I CAN'T. Valentimes. Times. Whyyyyyyy.

This is one of the funniest threads I've seen on JUB.

You guys are killing me.

[G-Lexington]

We joke that you can tell the newbies from the assimilated by how they pronounce these cities and streets from around Denver.

Arvada
Westminster
Galapago Street
Galena Avenue
Uinta Street
Quebec Avenue

Learn these and become one of us.

Lex

[bankside]

We joke that you can tell the newbies from the assimilated by how they pronounce these cities and streets from around Denver.

Arvada
Westminster
Galapago Street
Galena Avenue
Uinta Street
Quebec Avenue

Learn these and become one of us.

Lex

ArVAYda.
WestMINSter
I would want to read it as Galla Pag-o but I'd second guess myself and make it sound like gaLAPagos islands.
Galeena.
I'd be tempted to say YOU intah street but it would probably come out somewhat frenchified as Weenta.

And last but not least, and without a doubt, avenue Québec. Avva NOO KAY Bek.

[G-Lexington]

ArVAYda.
WestMINSter
I would want to read it as Galla Pag-o but I'd second guess myself and make it sound like gaLAPagos islands.
Galeena.
I'd be tempted to say YOU intah street but it would probably come out somewhat frenchified as Weenta.

And last but not least, and without a doubt, avenue Québec. Avva NOO KAY Bek.

Newbie. One out of five. You would've had two, but you talked yourself out of it. It IS pronounced like "so, what are you inta?"

Lex

[ibill1]

I want to slap the shit out of people who constantly say, "DO YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYIN? First off, I can't see words, I hear words. If you want to use that phrase, and those that do tend to say it after every sentence, then it is "DO YOU HEAR WHAT I'M SAYING. Chills go up my spine.

[xbuzzerx]

I call my BF "Punkin". There are days when I want to carve him.

Why not just give him an ocular implant?

@ Lex I know what you mean. Around here is a town called San Pedro and you can always spot people from outside of this area of California because they will say it with a more correct Spanish pronounciation fo "San Paydro" when that's not how anyone who lives in So Cal says it... San Peeedro. It's not correct, but it's been pronounced that way for decades and decades.

[HoodedRat]

Why do so many Americans use the word 'then' instead of 'than', ie, ''You think you are better then me''?

What's all that bout? When I first encountered it on JUB I thought it was just a Nu Joisy thing, but it seems to be spreading.

[Keeland]

They're "loosing" the distinction of pronunciation between the two, so it matters not how either is spelt.

[xbuzzerx]

Why do so many Americans use the word 'then' instead of 'than', ie, ''You think you are better then me''?

What's all that bout? When I first encountered it on JUB I thought it was just a Nu Joisy thing, but it seems to be spreading.

They're "loosing" the distinction of pronunciation between the two, so it matters not how either is spelt.

Your going to have to figure it out on you're own.

[borg69unimatrix]

Why do so many Americans use the word 'then' instead of 'than', ie, ''You think you are better then me''?

What's all that bout? When I first encountered it on JUB I thought it was just a Nu Joisy thing, but it seems to be spreading.

*I* am notorious for doing this !!!! I admit it, and I'm sorry.