# It's "veterinary", right? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120 "2011-08-09T20:20:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/1 "2011-08-09T20:20:21Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/2 "2011-08-09T20:23:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/3 "2011-08-09T20:28:38Z")
T’ young vitnery wit t’ badger? It’s an “All Creatures Great & Small” reference ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/4 "2011-08-09T20:30:24Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Bosstrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstrain)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/5 "2011-08-09T20:41:01Z")
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:. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/6 "2011-08-09T21:31:29Z")
I’ll look up the pronunciation in the libary next Febuary. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/7 "2011-08-09T21:42:29Z")
> [@Ponch8](#): > > I’ll look up the pronunciation in the libary next Febuary. On a Wenzday, preferably. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/8 "2011-08-09T22:47:37Z")
Lazy. I first noticed it on a spoken-word record in 1970. About the same time realtors became reelaturs. . ---
**Author:** ![MacCat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maccat/32/216_2.png) [@MacCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacCat)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/9 "2011-08-09T22:50:33Z")
And jewelry became joolery… ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/10 "2011-08-09T23:06:15Z")
Could this be a compression where you’re just not hearing the detail? Does the N _really_ follow hard on the T? > [@CookingWithGas](#): > > This is not just eliding a vowel, it’s two syllables complete with a consonant. Still an elision, if that’s what’s happening. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2011, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/11 "2011-08-09T23:28:55Z")
Nuc-u-lar. It’s pronounced nuc-u-lar. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/12 "2011-08-10T02:11:04Z")
> [@Bosstone](#): > > On a Wenzday, preferably. Prolly a Fridee. (Does that make it correct?) ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/13 "2011-08-10T14:46:52Z")
Detroit’s “Voice of the Great Lakes” has a “meteorololist”. ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-veterinary-right/592120/14 "2011-08-11T21:56:21Z")
Ask the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork, Lord Vetinari.