Words You’ve Never Heard Pronounced

[Dr_Paprika]

I think you are hanging with the wrong crowd…

[MrDibble]

Funnily enough, I do actually live in a place that has languages with a fricative hl phoneme.

[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.

[PatrickLondon]

@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?

[Sunspace]

@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.

[Pardel-Lux]

You can find it on this very board, currently playing:

A friendly game of Mornington Crescent

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…

[ZonexandScout]

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.