Commonly mispronounced words

[Sundae]

Quite possibly cheating... but very cunning linguist all the same

Cunning linguist... LOL! Nasty girl... you want cunning linguist!

[DanaC]

Quite possibly cheating... but very cunning linguist all the same

That reminds me of that song from Not the Nine O'Clock News; the final ever show, sang by Rowan Atkinson and Pamela Stephenson (?) I think. Do you remember it SG? The chorus revolved around the phrase "Kinda lingers".....well, it was brave for 80's tv:P


Oh hey! and notice my User title Good luck for the next few weeks, I really hope you get sorted soon and get back down to the cellar.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Using belabor is showing extreme, to emphasize the point.

I disagree, for I reckon "belabor" to be the wrong verb entirely, and not to be "showing extreme," which phrase I find rather opaque.

So are hobbits, fairies and trolls, but until mailmakers appears in at least one of the OneLook's 931 dictionaries, it doesn't even qualify as slang.

A one-word compound for "someone who makes mail," and you have a problem, either with the coining or the existence? I don't think I follow your thinking. I suppose about the time one of these tells you "Catch!" and flings a thirty-pound riveted-link hauberk into your arms, you'd indeed acknowledge that such things exist, and quite independently of any solipsistic views on your part.

Bruce, final word here: you're running low on things to argue about. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I'm saying if you create your one-word compound for "someone who makes mail," the general population doesn't know what the hell you're talking about. Like Klingon, if you know it you can talk to others that also know it, but it's not a smart way to communicate with normal people.

When hearing mail, how many people think of armor rather than postal or email? Damn few, I suspect.
You especially, since you're constantly pontificating the value of correct language skills, should know this.

I will never run low on things to argue about as long as I have you, cupcake.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Thinking of mail as armor is typical of the people I run with. For the wider circle of my acquaintance where it isn't, I soon clue them as to context.

Normal? Heh. Why do you think I jump all over certain Cellarites? They aren't normal. I'm not sure that's a permanent condition.

[DanaC]

Thinking of mail as armor is typical of the people I run with.

Let me guess you're a knight of the round table? Yea? Am I right? Oh please say I am right.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Well, I've been jocularly called "King Arthur" by a Navy buddy who reckoned making one's own mailshirts to be an unusual hobby, let alone wearing them to get hit in. Along with a bascinet helmet with camail, plate arms and plate legs, and an armyng-cote. Somewhere in here, the mailshirt gets replaced by a globose breastplate. Not sure if I'd go for a segmented breastplate of the Churburg C13 type, or the all of a piece Churburg C14.

An eventual ambition is to become a KSCA.

The Society for Creative Anachronism

We're a pack of incurable romantics whose idea of a good weekend is suiting up in 40-65 lb of steel body armor, and going out and whacking each other over the knob with big rattan sticks. There's a fair bit of this to be found over on YouTube.

SCA Action on the Jersey Isles

[Aliantha]

Do you have a destrier to UG?

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Nah. No place to keep a destrier, nor a courser, nor any nag.

[Clodfobble]

Ah, my favorite LARPing video ever:

[SadistSecret]

My town, Des Moines. It's Duh Moyne, not Dez Moy-nez. Even CNN can't say it right.

Speaking of CNN, those stupid news people who pronounce Iraq as "E-rock", etc. I want to decapitate them.

Anyone who pronounces "genre" as "jenn-ree". Especially my dad.

URL pronounced as "earl". I've seen this happen before. Just because it CAN be pronounced as a word doesn't mean it should.

Suite, when said "suit".

Any form of baby/idiot talk. Includes, but certainly not limited to babytalk and ebonics.

A bit off topic, but people who deliberately spell "come" as c-u-m. You only make yourself look like a whore.

Also most TXT speak makes me want to rip someone's head off. They aren't using for anything, and I want to play soccer.

The word "like" is this gross mispronounciation of what we who speak English call a pause in between words, better known as a comma. I don't know if this one counts, but it sure puts me into a homicidal mood.

[DanaC]

Speaking of CNN, those stupid news people who pronounce Iraq as "E-rock", etc. I want to decapitate them.

Out of interest, how do you think it should be pronounced?

[SadistSecret]

Iraq = "Eye-Rack"

That's the way it's pronounced by everyone I personally know, including an Iraqi immigrant whom I served with in the US Army.

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by SadistSecret

Any form of baby/idiot talk. Includes, but certainly not limited to babytalk and ebonics.

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The word "like" is this gross mispronounciation of what we who speak English call a pause in between words, better known as a comma. I don't know if this one counts, but it sure puts me into a homicidal mood.

That's strange because when people call Ebonics or, less colloquially, African American Vernacular English idiot talk it throws me into a homicidal mood. Let me assure you that no matter what dialect of English you speak there's someone out there who thinks it's an undesirable way of speaking.

The pet-peeves I can stand, barely, but writing off an entire language is completely off-base in my book.