Cold comfort to those who are not promoted - or hired - because their pronunciation or usage is not standard.
Something similar happens at my work a lot. Some of our procedures are near gibberish, but the authors just say, “Eh, people know what it means.” No, they don’t. I’ve seen the CAPAs.
Depends on where you are from. Different areas have different pronunciations.
I know it’s not quite the same thing, but I was taught to keep the hammer down on an empty cylinder on a revolver (even though there are built-in protections against discharging from dropping the gun.)
If I were a gun-carrying security guard with an auto at my hip, I’d carry it on an empty chamber, just because it’s how I was brought up. (Doubly so if I’d been on the job for a couple years and never once had to draw my weapon…)
Don’t be too derisive of the force of tradition!
I live just outside of Louisville, KY. Named after the French King Louis, pronounced Loo-eee. Locals don’t pronounce it that way. To a local, it’s loo-uh-vul. A local comedian, Bob Batch, actually has a joke where he teaches you the proper way to say it: the city/state is pronounced “Loo-uh-Vulcan-Ducky.”
There’s a city just outside of Lexington named Versailles. Pronounced “Ver-sails.”
This state will drive a non-native like me into an aneurysm with their regional pronunciations.
Is it really two full syllables? I always got the impression it was closer to “Loovle”, with the middle syllable barely audible. I know “Kootenai” is exactly two syllables (it sounds like “Cootnee”).
An old Finnish army trick is take your beret and wear it in the sauna. Get it damp and mold it to your liking. Wear it till it’s reasonably dry. You get a nice shape that lasts a long time.
Good observation. You’re supposed to condense it to a single syllable. I neglected to include that
People who talk about the Boston “Brew- ins” make me nuts. It’s “Bruns.” One syllable.
And don’t get me started about 60 Minutes’ report on quin-cee Massachusetts. You think that all the natives say KWIN-zee might have given them a clue.
Nuh-vah-duh.
Oreegone
I grew up fifty miles from Boston and have always pronounced it “brew-ins”.
Frankly, I find the expectation that people should always pronounce things exactly as the locals do to be bizarre. I guarantee that everybody pronounces many if not most place names differently from the locals. If we’re talking about a TV show or movie where a local mispronounces things, that’s one thing. But if someone from Minnesota says “LOOeeville”, t’ain’t nothing wrong with it.
Well, there’s a difference between people pronouncing things in their own voice–making it sound a bit different than the typical local’s–and actually misunderstanding the name. I’d argue that pronouncing the towns in Kentucky or Ohio like the Palace in France, is just wrong. On the other hand, it would be weird for non-New Englanders to feign the accent to refer to any place or thing there.
I think that’s a fair distinction (although where we draw that line is an interesting question too: is the standard English pronunciation of “Paris” a mispronunciation?). It’s really the latter issue (insisting that things be pronounced in the local accent) that I’m talking about.
More like “Awwrgawn”
One I was just reminded of today: Four-leaf shamrocks. The whole point of a shamrock, the reason why it’s associated with St. Patrick, is tied up inescapably with the fact that it has three leaflets. A four-leaf shamrock is thus completely pointless.
Massachusetts has Worcester and Gloucester, not to mention Leominster and Haverhill. We don’t get to complaint about people mis-pronouncing towns.
To be fair though (why am I being fair to Massachusetts?), while I don’t know the source of Haverhill or Leominster, Worcester and Gloucester are straight from England–with more or less the same pronunciations–so it’s their fault anyway.
Ohio, meanwhile, is sane. We’ve got a town named Wooster, that’s spelled just like that, and is pronounced just like it’s spelled.
Irritates the crap out of me - anytime there’s a “auto” pistol (i.e. an autoloader, vs a revolver), and someone is about to be shot, and the gun goes “click, click, click” when attempted to be fired. Not only normally would the slide be locked back after the last “loaded” round fired, but definitely only one click - the hammer/bolt/firing pin/trigger is only cocked ONCE, while loading the next round/closing the slide. At best, one click, unlike the double action revolver, where the trigger pull itself cocks/releases the hammer.