I am amazed at professional radio announcers in news reports and in advertisements who pronounce this word “vet’nary”. Is this becoming the commonly accepted pronunciation? Or is everybody just lazy?
Vet’nary? How int’resting. I haven’t noticed it but I don’t remember the last time I heard an ad for veterinary services. But eliding of syllables doesn’t generally bother me. I say jewlry, not jewelry.
T’ young vitnery wit t’ badger?
It’s an “All Creatures Great & Small” reference
There is an playing currently on WTOP in the D.C. market that is not for veterinary services, but includes that word (I can’t remember what they are actually advertising).
This is not just eliding a vowel, it’s two syllables complete with a consonant.
Usually I hear vet’rinary :).
On that note, I live in Louisville, KY (pronounced Luiville, named after King Louis XVI), but most everyone says Louvle, even on the radio, like they have some speech impediment :smack:.
I’ll look up the pronunciation in the libary next Febuary.
On a Wenzday, preferably.
Lazy. I first noticed it on a spoken-word record in 1970.
About the same time realtors became reelaturs.
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And jewelry became joolery…
Could this be a compression where you’re just not hearing the detail? Does the N really follow hard on the T?
Still an elision, if that’s what’s happening.
Nuc-u-lar. It’s pronounced nuc-u-lar.
Prolly a Fridee. (Does that make it correct?)
Detroit’s “Voice of the Great Lakes” has a “meteorololist”.
Ask the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, Lord Vetinari.