and furthermore…
Just how should it be pronounced, then? The above-mentioned Merriam-Webster gives for pronunciation: “'n&p-sh&l, -ch&l, ÷-sh&-w&l, ÷-ch&-w&l”. The third option very closely approximates your rendering of the “mispronunciation.”
If saying q-pon is wrong, I don’t want to be right!
The one that bothers me is “jag-wire”. Jag-WAR, people! Even jag-u-ar, as in that Pink Floyd song that now escapes me, but never, never jag-wire!
My absolute favorite is this one: “The {noun} needs {past participle}” (i.e., “The rug needs vacuumed”). I believe this is a regional thing, but it really steams my beans just the same. Either the rug needs TO BE vacuumed, or the rug needs vacuumING. Please. Don’t make me whack you upside the head with this tea kettle.
I just remembered, my husband was telling me just a couple days ago…
He was talking to a guy who has been a police officer for 20+ years. The guy was saying how annoyed he got when criminals got a “flea bargain.” :dubious:
Yes, I am aware that both pronunciations are listed. However, given enough time, nook-yoo-ler will be listed as an acceptable pronunciation of “nuclear”.
-annoyed utterance directed at me by a higher-ranking soldier in the summer of 1995. I wisely stifled my natural reaction, which was to chuckle.
I was born in Jacksonville, Florider
It wasn’t Tamper
And yes, I had an English teacher who said both.
Did you ever go to Miamah?
Not being native in English, I should probably just keep my mouth shut in a thread like this, but earlier today, on another board, I read about someone asking if it was aloud under the law to perform a certain action. I just had to share.
Officious Cabinet Officer: Sir, you try my patience!
Groucho: Don’t mind if I do. You must come over and try mine sometime.
I hear “weapontry” occasionally.
There’s no “t” in “weaponry”
I’m the only one I know who actually says “Feb-ru-ary.”
I use to work (I’m a programmer) on a video game concerning tanks. And our lead designer pronounced the word “turret” as “turrent”. (shudder)
Archergal, you’re not alone anymore. I always pronounce the r that everybody else seems to forget.
And sometimes I say flustrated, but it’s intentional. We used it in high school as a cross between frustrated and flustered. I wouldn’t use it where people would think I didn’t know better.
You know, I try and I try, but I am just not able to pronounce the first R in February. Native midwesterner with no discernible accent (that I’m aware of), but I just can’t make it happen without stopping and making a laborious R sound. I know it’s there though.
Boy, I’m glad the M-W agrees with me and a few other posters in accepting both as a legitamite way to say “February”.
I’ll take the no first “R”, version personally.
Youse guys should just be glad you don’t live in Rhode Island, where “-er” becomes “-ah” and “-ah” becomes “-er.” The mind boggles.
In the year 2500, linguists who speak New Englandish might write a book about sound changes from Late Modern English to Early Modern New Englandish. That book might have enteries like the following:
er -->a /#
a–>er /#
Another future book on historical sound change might have an entery like:
r --> 0/ f_u
So I hope you guys are pleased with yourselves, rejecting a sound change that’ll make whatever language spoken in the future slightly less linguistically rich:)
Note: please don’t take my “future sound changes” too seriously- I’m really still learning about linguistics.
Hold on, I need to go take some maysurements.
Ugh. This is just getting rediculous.