It's a name, rather than an adjective. Cholmondeley is pronounced 'Chumley' apparently.
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=1500&tabview=image
I've been a bit obsessed with this painting for a few years, after first seeing it, and I've only recently found out its name. If I'd heard of it or seen it on TV, then it probably would have taken ages to find out where it's actually displayed.
Why do posh people spell things in such a ridiculous manner - for example Saint-John, as in Norman Saint-John Stevas, is pronounced 'sinjin'.
What words have you recently learned to pronounce? If any...you might be really clever.
the sinjin thing is pretty cool though, huh
i never really got the beauchamp/beecham thing
i havent learnt any good words lately :(
Well, I blogged yesterday about the exact opposite
an American who used the words Tempeture, Gram (Greame) and Drug (instead of Dragged) which made my blood boil.
My girlfriend pronounces Deodrant Deodreiant and Wardrobe Wardrope.
If my girlfriend pronounced words wrong
I'd kick her teeth in.
That surely is counter productive?
I'd push them back into her gums
in the way that I see fit. That'd teach her.
my ex girlfriend always
called primark "primart", so i kicked her fucking teeth back into her gums.
hence "ex"
RE-SE-VWI-YER
My boss is american and calls one of our bosses
Gram too, I thought it was a cute nickname or something!
You're probably too young
but pretty much everyone over a certain age knows that from the days when Harry Enfield was pretty amusing:
http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=Cholmondeley+warner&search_type=&aq=f
Certainly the Cholmondeley Warner sections were the only half-funny thing he ever did. No one mention Stavros or Loadsamoney, please. Ever.
nah i know it from harry enfield and chums
Women, know your place!
Oh come on Theo
Only half-funny thing he did? That Poppet on a Swing sketch ripping all those 'swinging sixties' films was brilliant.
"I hope you die soon"
Well, maybe he did a few more.
...
My favourite
is Featherstonehalgh is Fanshaw. Crazy.
Belvoir=Beaver apparently
Some man I have to call at work uses the pronunciation 'metzanine'. I hate him.
Belvoir is Beaver!
It's like 2 minutes from my house!
Yeah, that is weird...
When I was doing my work experience, one of the subs rang up their office to see how they pronounced it...they pronounced it as it's spelt. Further investigation provided that it SHOULD be "Beaver", and only in the North (I think) do they say it...weird, eh?
He pronounces
"Belvoir" "metzanine"? Weirdo.
Menzies = Mingiss
bizarre!
Waitrose
I've been calling it Wait-rose. This could explain why I always get followed by security when I'm in there.
on that note
People who call Asda 'Asdas', or Tesco 'Tescos'
so much hate for this
people who pluralise words to make them easier to say :@
its not pluralisation
its possessives
I with you on this too
Why do people do it? You don't say Iceland's do you?
It's an effect of it being so big.
Sainsbury's made the others seem like they needed the possessive.
it *is* sainsbury's
and Morrisons though innit?
The supermarket belonging to Lord Sainsbury
= Sainsbury's
OMG
how are you supposed to pronounce it? I don't know anyone who shops there, so I'm okay, but for future reference!
WAITROSE.
I don't understand what Kayleia means. It's pronounced 'way-trohs'.
i know
is there any other way to pronounce Waitrose?
Marshmallow
I have been saying MarshmEllow for many years, god damn you midlands accent!
It is Marshmellow
Marshmallow sounds stupid
They're both valid, you pair of fools
:D
http://www.answers.com/marshmallow?cat=health
Aha! JezCC has been mocking me about this
for some time now, he can mock me no longer!
this was a year and a half ago
but i taught jasmine that self-deprecating is not pronounced 'self-depreeshiating.'
in terms of me, i've finally caved in and stopped pronouncing rant 'rarrnt'. i'm just well-spoken :( :( :( :( (i don't say parrssive though)
Self-Depreciating is pronounced self-depreciating, though.
Maybe you were just too stupid to realise she was using a different word?
roastthemonaspit
is roast them on a spit
not
roast the monas pit
or
roast the mona spit
i still call him roast the mona spit
he is in my phone as 'jonny roast the mona'
I only know him as roast the mona spit for sure.
i thought it was 'roast themona spit'
Self-deprecating
I always pronounced it self-depreciating.
Duh.
you're not alone
(i never did though)
Or exactly what Klaire said.
i knew it was that
but heard so many people saying it the wrong way that i doubted myself and stopped using it for a while. today my vocabulary has gone up to 63,557.
fascimile.
Is this even a word?
yeah
its what "fax" is short for,
i always called it "fassimill" but its "fakk similly"
Surely that would be
facsimile.
nice1m8
the long winded way of writting fax
yeah, i always get this wrong
fassymile
I'm fine
However, some people cannot pronounce lots of words properly, such as 'bath', 'butter', even 'fuck'.
Baaarrrrrrrrrrth
Graaaarrrssseeee
Parrrtth
Glaaaarrssseee
:(
*:)
even
I'm fine
However, some people cannot pronounce lots of words properly, such as 'bath', 'butter', even 'fuck'.
penchant
is that pen-chan?(sh)
as opposed to pen-chant (with a 'ch')
It's
pon-shon.
Hyperbole
what, it's not HYPER BOWL?!
i had to teach some people how to pronounce this in 6th form
the couldn't understand why it's hyperbolly (or whatever, i can't do phonetics) i can't either but i must admit it sounds cooler than hyperbowl.
haha
hyperbolly doesn't look right at all. ;)
It does
I was happy to find that out
yeah but
i kind of like HYPER-BOWL too.
its like some extreme version of the Super-Bowl.
;D
It's more hi-PER-bow-lee
^i was going to say this
but got distracted rubbing my cheek.
that still doesn't sound right
although it's better than my attempt.
Oh forgot....
We had a woman at work who said she lived in (I'll write it phonetically)
Bah-terr-zee-ah
And after much confusion I realised she meant Battersea.
burgeoning
i heard people say this and thought they were saying "virgining".
i read it and thought it said "berg-o-ning", naturally.
both wrong
I can't think of any right now
but a friend of mine recently pronounced Frankenstein as 'Fron-ken-steen'
That's not right, is it?
did he/she do it in a comedy German accent?
He used of those forced accents
like people who pronounce Paris as 'Pari'.
*one of those
How is homage pronounced?
I always though it was om-arge but have heard people say homidge. Also, is it re-prize or re-preeze?
Two good questions
I prefer om-arge and re-preeze so I'm hoping they're right!
It depends on who you are:
Americans pronounce it 'omm-arge'.
British people prefer 'hommidge', by and large.
Holborn is Ho-bun
Hor d'oeuvres
Actually, that's not strictly true...I always knew how to pronounce it, but never linked the two, having rarely seen it spelled out.
I had the same effect when Versace was killed.
I was like. Oh, it's pronounced Ver Saatchi? Weird.
I think I'd just seen it and assumed it was 'verzass' like 'Alsace'.
My Deputy Head / Boss Guy
Pronounces 'issue' as it's written ie not 'ishoo' but 'isss you'.
One day I will kill him.
Yeah, I pronounce Tissue like that.
And liquorice without any 'sh' sound.
Then one day I shall kill you too
keep on your toes, yeah?
nicoise
forecastle and gunwales are pronounced somewhat lazily. those idle, salty dogs.
And
blackguard, too.
as are Rowlocks
how you do REALLY spell
Apairateeth?
A pair of teef.
Aperitif
whip
people saying hwhip really annoys me.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lich59xsjik
I can't see youtube at work
but if that is the Family Guy 'Cool Whip' scene then good linkage.
i's just taughted mes bossious maximus how to say quantitatively
Americans who pronounce
Leicester "Lai-cest-er" piss me orf!
I still don't know how to pronunce 'Boyes' (as in the shop), is it "Boys", "Boi-yez", "Boys-ese", "Bo-yes"?????????????!?!??!??!
"Boys"
Like the surname.
I used to have someone call me at work called Roger Boyes :D
i only just discovered
that lingerie is pronounced lawn-je-rie
rather than lin-ger-ie
cool..?
hahahaa
I used to think Hermione was said...
Her-me-own
As opposed to Her-my-oh-knee...
"bamos"
i always said it like it looks -'bam-oss', but apparently its pronounced "bum-us"
Clique
This one annoys the hell out of me.
It's 'cleeque' not 'click'
Courtney Love once
corrected jane middlemiss on the pronunciation of 'homage' in an interview on the O-Zone, cut her right up that did.
yes, that's really annoying
but if I hear something enough, I start to think you might as well say it that way, as it's just a new version of the word...obviously this doesn't apply to everything, but foreign language words often get abused this way