Pronunciation watch

[Bryn]

And the equally age-old Ecksetera.

Las heard that in Febry this year.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Las heard that in Febry this year.

Well, isn't February really awkward to get right? Not sure I don't say Feb-yew-ary in some careless moments

(Do I take it that nobody else has caught Headbrides from the BBC? Be'er ge' me lug'oles srinjed praps!)

[cloughie]

Las heard that in Febry this year.

Wasn’t it in Febuary?

[LeMartinPecheur]

Aren't 'headbrides' people who swap vows with 'headgrooms'?

My inner pedant does greatly regret that the was no Pronunciation Watch back in medieval times to stop 'bridegooms' (bridesmen, cf. Ger. Brautigam) now needing to pack their curry-combs for the honeymoon

[Bryn]

Wasn’t it in Febuary?

Might have been Frebrooee.

[LMcD]

When my wife worked at the local GP surgery (she retired in 2005) older patients would regularly come to pick up their perscriptions.

[Serial_Apologist]

When my wife worked at the local GP surgery (she retired in 2005) older patients would regularly come to pick up their perscriptions.

I have to admit to having got prescriptions and proscriptions the wrong way around on occasion.

[Dave2002]

Our new car has very odd pronunciation from the sat nav. Thus "A621" would come out as "ay" "six" "te" "one".
I think it does this irrespective of which voice, male or female, is chosen. Also, the "speaker" puts pauses in places which nobody would normally place them. Sounds really odd and strange, as the voices have generally very good and precise enunciation "not yer usyal dialect stuff".

On the other hand a previous car, which we still have, has a robotic voice, and breaks everything up into short syllables. Laughable, really, and often only marginally intelligible.

[Serial_Apologist]

Our new car has very odd pronunciation from the sat nav. Thus "A621" would come out as "ay" "six" "te" "one".
I think it does this irrespective of which voice, male or female, is chosen. Also, the "speaker" puts pauses in places which nobody would normally place them. Sounds really odd strange, as the voices have generally very good and precise enunciation "not yer usyal dialect stuff".

On the other hand a previous car, which we still have, has a robotic voice, and breaks everything up into short syllables. Laughable, really, and often only marginally intelligible.

Destination announcements on trains have those odd tiny hiatuses (haiti?), which result from splicing one part of an announcement to another, specific to the route and the next stop. "Barnes" often loses the initial "b..." I once mentioned to another passenger how I had often wondered how long it had taken the announcer, with the very clear female voice which seems to be the same voice on whichever line one is travelling, to record every destination, every railway stop, and every permutation of every possible journey on every timetable. And who had copyright on the announcements? Could a hip hop artist be sued for breaching, let's say, Transport for London's ownership of the announcements by sampling them for a recording to be sold? "Oh, it's all done by computer", she answered matter of factly, completely straghtfaced!

[french frank]

those odd tiny hiatuses (haiti?)

plural hiatūs - 4th declension.

[Serial_Apologist]

plural hiatūs - 4th declension.

Aha! - thanks!

[kernelbogey]

The announcer on Waterloo-Portsmouth trains mangles the destination into 'Pwortsmouth': possibly intended as a genteel correction to the local demotic 'Portsmuff'.

[cloughie]

The announcer on Waterloo-Portsmouth trains mangles the destination into 'Pwortsmouth': possibly intended as a genteel correction to the local demotic 'Portsmuff'.

ts prefers to avoid mentioning it all!

[johncorrigan]

ts prefers to avoid mentioning it all!

He's a bit more Pottymouth about it, cloughie.

[cloughie]

He's a bit more Pottymouth about it, coughie.

Saints and sinners?