That’s only because I am always right.
Anybody calls me porky-pine, they’re gettin’ the smack-down.
That’s only because I am always right.
Anybody calls me porky-pine, they’re gettin’ the smack-down.
Roadkill.
Conkeybines!
It’s always been pork-you-pine to me. I only say pork-ee-pine when I’m being silly.
Pork-you-pine or quickly, pork-ya-pine.
Though it does sound a lot like porky-pine anyway.
PORK-you-pine.
By halfway through this thread, it started to look like a really weird thing to call an animal, though. I bet I won’t be able to remember what you call the thing now!
South checking in here. That would be “por cue pine”
por - like “for” ie, no K
cue - like a pool cue
pine - like a Georgia pine (tree, that is)
I agree with this pronunciation.
por-kyi-pine here.
In fact, I’d bet that many folks who think they say “pork-you-pine” actually do not, at least in regular conversation. Unaccented syllables in English tend to get reduced to schwa, which is probably the character tremorviolet ran across.
As for the people who claim that one pronunciation is “correct” and others “incorrect”… that’s just silly.
Probably ephemeral, but around here, it may well become perk-uh-poine.
Unfortunately, it’s common for what somebody was taught in English when they were thirteen to be asserted as fact. In most threads, we can at least debunk their source. In this case, we just have to tell them they’re wrong. 
While poor-cue-pine would be the popular pronunciation, I reserve right to use the Walt Kelly pronunciation, as in Pogo, which is Porky-pine. 
Definitely por-cue-pine.
“Porky-pine” sounds like something Bugs Bunny would say.
I thought that I’d say “por cue pine” but after saying it a few times it’s actually closer to “por kyuh pine”.
Meh-heh-heh…
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,
Thy knotted and combined locks to part
And each particular hair to start an end,
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine…
Hamlet, I, v, 15-20