# Words You’ve Never Heard Pronounced **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 1, 2022, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-ve-never-heard-pronounced/963774 "2022-05-01T22:23:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 16
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-ve-never-heard-pronounced/963774/301 "2022-06-14T15:04:14Z")
I think you are hanging with the wrong crowd… ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-ve-never-heard-pronounced/963774/302 "2022-06-14T15:32:14Z")
Funnily enough, I do actually live in a place that has languages with a fricative _hl_ phoneme. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-ve-never-heard-pronounced/963774/303 "2022-06-14T16:29:25Z")
Fair enough. But if it is antediluvian, or even if the angles are wrong in ways beyond the human capacity of imagination, you may wish to relocate. Friendly advice, of course. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-ve-never-heard-pronounced/963774/304 "2022-08-23T16:11:40Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > But if it is antediluvian, or even if the angles are wrong in ways beyond the human capacity of imagination, you may wish to relocate. To [Mornington Crescent](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game))? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-ve-never-heard-pronounced/963774/305 "2022-08-27T09:18:35Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Fair enough. But if it is antediluvian, or even if the angles are wrong in ways beyond the human capacity of imagination, you may wish to relocate. Friendly advice, of course. Or just break out the [complex vowels](https://xkcd.com/2657). ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-ve-never-heard-pronounced/963774/306 "2022-08-27T11:45:38Z")
You can find it on this very board, currently playing: > [@A friendly game of Mornington Crescent](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-friendly-game-of-mornington-crescent/929179): > > It seems to me high time we had another round of this marvellous game; hopefully others will feel the same and join us. I suggest we use Gummeridge’s 1957 rules, and for the Jubilee Line I think Portlock & Watlingham’s 2002 treatise can be considered definitive. No DLR play, of course - any such attempts will cause the offender to lose Runcing rights for 2 turns. I’ll start with the dull but safe opener Queensway. New and old players welcome - if anyone needs clarification of the rules, us old… ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-ve-never-heard-pronounced/963774/307 "2022-08-27T12:17:01Z")
I think one of these has already been addressed. In both cases, I more often hear the wrong pronunciation, at least in the US. So, it’s not that I’ve never heard it pronounced…it’s more that hardly anybody pronounces these correctly. I have tin-uh-tus, not tin-i-tis (long i with accent on second syllable). My tin is not inflamed. The video equipment manufacturer is Hike-vizhun, not Hick-vizhun. The equipment was not made by poor uneducated rural people (at least, not poor uneducated rural Americans). I use both words several times a week and with groups of different people. No matter how often I state and pronounce the words correctly, the people I’m talking with insist on using the incorrect pronunciation in response. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-you-ve-never-heard-pronounced/963774.md?page=15)