Words You Have to Consciously "Translate" To Correct Pronunciation

err \ˈer\ is the pronunciation I'm talking about.

Oxford
err
Pronunciation: /er/ /ər/

air
Pronunciation: /er/

 

ill go with hyperbole too

ill add one...the vietmamese food pho...pronounced pha...so switch the o and a...sheesh

 

I thought it was closer to "fuh" as in WTF.

 

I have to remember "caveat" is cav-ee-aaht rather than ca-veet.

 

So we are both correct.

 

Then you go to South Louisiana and nothing sounds like it is spelled.

Melacon = Mi' La 'Shawn Knew a Texan with that name and the Cajuns would tell him he wasn't Mel - a - con.

Lagniappe - Never ever would have gotten this one without a 3 year course in Cajun pronunciation.

 

I just call them Bob then. You don't mind if I call you Bob do you? You look like a Bob to me.

 

When reading, I have trouble getting the stresses right on "superfluous." That "super" just jumps out at me and I automatically want to stress the first syllable. Fortunately, it doesn't come up often.

 

Extraordinary does the same thing to me.

 

This is eminently sensible.

And yes. Yes, you can call me Bob

 

My son wrote a paper in high school that was so bad it hurt my brain having to read and spell check it. He was using texting lingo for a lot of the paper. I dragged his arse into the computer room and sat there for about a half hour with him fixing it.

 

I believe you are correct.

 

Word.

 

Hadn't had a chance to check back.

Actually demonstrated my problem with the word. Correct spelling is as you noted above, without the space; my version is the "phonetic" way I pronounced the word until corrected.

Funny - the teacher didn't make me write it on the chalkboard 50 times.

lascivious. There.

 

Synthesiser. I always call them synths.

 

I'm Originally from New England. I still cringe a bit when my New Jersey born daughter in law attempts to pronounce the city names like Gloucester or Worcester.

 

A stranger came to a college apartment where I lived, and talked to me for a couple of hours about some sort of trouble he was in, which I could not understand.

The next day I asked a roommate where this kid was from and what language he spoke.
He was British, speaking English.
The only language I know.

 

OK, on topic, I can only spell Yngwie Malmsteen the way it sounds: Ingvay.
I had to google for the correct spelling, and I was so far off it didn't even come up at first.

Not that I hang with my posse and word up on Ingvay 'n' ****.

 

Which is correct for Caribbean as in the sea? Ka rib (short i) beian or Kara - bee an?

 

I wouldn't worry too much about that (maybe you didn't, burt anyway...)

Yngwie is a made up name, a version of the old swedish name Yngve.

On that note... the letter "W", what's up with that? Double you? You and your twin?