We Texans say it like George Jr.
uh…what? It’s pronounced gö-teh. There’s really not an English equivalent to that ö-sound. There’s definately no R. And “GO-THEE” or “GOAT_HEE” just sound stupid, stupid, stupid. Makes me want to start cussing auf Deutsch.
Hehehe Thudlow Boink …I feel just the opposite! I grew up in NY, but all my relatives were in RI - so I grew up saying “awnt”. To me, the other pronounciation is an insect! Ah well…it all depends on where you grow up and what sounds correct to your ears.
The word that really sets my teeth on edge is “expunge”. I’m not at all sure why, but it makes me extremely cranky!
Ok…it is pronounced fort, rather than fortay?.
I am confused 
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Another vote for Al-you-min-e-um, A-loo-min-um just sounds wrong.
I would add route…it’s root not rowt.
Pubes.
I think both pronounciations are accepted but hate it when people put the ‘T’ in often. To me it is ‘off-en’ not ‘off-ten’
Mauve, Taupe.
Por-sha. If you pronouce it that way, you have a small dick, and you’re going to have to sell it in order to make next month’s alimony payment, anyway. Besides, the 23-year-old you’re trying to schmooze isn’t fooled by your Hairclub for Men rug, and she’s going to have a roaring laugh with her girlfriends when she tells them about the middle-aged geek in the plaid sport coat that tried to pick her up at the gas station where she watched you put $5.43 in the tank, and you paid with loose change.
Mexico. The natives pronounce it mer-rico. It bothers me, as english speaker because the english X sound is a very very different from the r sound the natives place on it.
BluMoon - the more common pronunciation is fortay, so you should probably stick with that. What JuanitaTech and I were lamenting is that even though we know how to pronounce is correctly - fort - that pronunciation is so uncommon in the U.S. that one comes off sounding snobbish or silly…
The Hebrew name for the place is Bet Lechem, or the House of Bread. Since the CH is a gutteral sound thats not found in English (Like the CH in Chanukah) it’s generally pronounced as an “h” sound. The TH in place of T is something that seems to happen whenever Hebrew has been transliterated to English in the past, like sabbath (Shabat) Chinereth (Kineret) and Ruth (Rut). I’d say Bethlehem is pretty close to correct. Bethlum sounds like a regional variation.
victuals (“vittles”).
It just doesn’t match the spelling, and it makes me think of Jed Clampet.
Sorry, you’re just wrong. Google “porsche” and “pronunciation”, and you’ll get back many cites telling you you’re wrong. Here’s one…
As soon as I hit submit, I realized that of course Rysdad was saying it annoyed him when people pronounced “Porsche” correctly. My bad.
Kindergarten! It’s kinnygarden, damn it! Kinnergarden is also acceptable.
I don’t know if these pronunciations are “correct”, but it’s what people seem to say in any interview or public speaking type context:
AAH-dult instead of a-DULT
PROH-grum instead of proh-gram.
For some reason those make me cringe.
Yup, I agree on “derailleur”. Makes me cringe. Just say derailler.
And not spoken but written: it bugs me to see those college stickers on cars that say “alumnus/a” of a certain university. If you’re going to be so darn particular about the Latin, then manufacture two different stickers and let your educated students pick the right one. I don’t know when “alumnus/a” became an official word, but I see it everywhere. I consider myself a feminist, but I will not be offended by being called an alumnus.
go jeer ah NOT god zill ah
So we have to we have to affect a foreign accent to avoid sounding pretentious? Quel ironie!
Of course, one could simply say “strong suit”, “strong point”, or even “strength”, but what fun would that be?