Pronunciation watch

[ardcarp]

Definitely TOE-vee.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

On BBC News 24 this morning, I heard "glacier" pronounced repeatedly as "glay-sher", but sure it's either "glay-si-er" or "gla-si-er".

Of maybe she was drunk.

[vinteuil]

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... i think 'glay-sher' is the normal american pronunciation.

glacier (US: /ˈɡleɪʃər/ or UK: /ˈɡlæsiər, ˈɡleɪsiər/)

it is not a pronunciation i wd find troubling


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[LMcD]

On BBC News 24 this morning, I heard "glacier" pronounced repeatedly as "glay-sher", but sure it's either "glay-si-er" or "gla-si-er".

Of maybe she was drunk.

Glassyuh ('lass' as in young lady) ?

[Serial_Apologist]

On BBC News 24 this morning, I heard "glacier" pronounced repeatedly as "glay-sher", but sure it's either "glay-si-er" or "gla-si-er".

Of maybe she was drunk.

Also on BBC1 lunchtime news. It must be part of some BBC command to all its announcers to "go American" - as in "train station" and the like.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Glassyuh ('lass' as in young lady) ?

That's the way I pronounce it.

[vinteuil]

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... actually i'm not sure that glay-sher is an americanism.

i see that my 1933 edn of the oed describes two pronunciations - /ˈɡlæsiər/ or /ˈɡleɪʃər/ - so glay-sher was well establisht on these shores way back then....


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[vinteuil]

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Reims/Rheims.

The usual English pronunciation is reemz /riːmz/ ; French: [ʁɛ̃s]

A pronunciation new to me on Breakfast this morning - ramz.

I think Petroc never feels totally secure when he has to pronounce French words...
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[LMcD]

'Kapplemeister'? Surely it should be pronounced 'Kapellmeister'?

[Sir Velo]

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Reims/Rheims.

The usual English pronunciation is reemz /riːmz/ ; French: [ʁɛ̃s]

A pronunciation new to me on Breakfast this morning - ramz.


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No doubt he felt sheepish about pronouncing it correctly.

[vinteuil]

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... ah well, mutton grumble


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[cloughie]

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... ah well, mutton grumble


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Baa!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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... actually i'm not sure that glay-sher is an americanism.

i see that my 1933 edn of the oed describes two pronunciations - /ˈɡlæsiər/ or /ˈɡleɪʃər/ - so glay-sher was well establisht on these shores way back then....


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Interesting - though I'd never heard it pronounced this way until yesterday morning.

[ardcarp]

Apart from the long or short 'a', the sibilance or not with which the 'c' is pronounced is possibly a generational thing. IMVHO, there's a trend not to enunciate an 's' in its ultra- sibilant form. Maybe it's considered too precious? This seems especially true when the 's' precedes a 't'. For instance the word 'stress' (rather commonly used at present!) is 'shtress'. If anyone asks for 'a smoke', it's somewhere in between sssssmoke and shmoke.

[Rjw]

Reims = ranse

Spoken out of the side of the mouth!