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Pronunciation Question

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Hey--- The Giest likes the toaster... If I get a toaster oven... he'll just show up there...

Luckily for me, my personal poltergiest found out that my divorcee neighbor's lady remington has becaome available for haunting... so... he's been spending some time over there... especially in the mornings.
 
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Fools. You don't want to lose this battle again. Or so says my:

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Thump said:
Since when did the correct pronunciation of Iraq become, "Eerock?"
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Since the country was formed. It's just that we Americans tend to fuck up foreign languages wholesale. Case in point, how do you think "Honda" (the car company) is pronounced? Well, if you think it's how everyone in the US pronounces it, you're wrong. The "o" is a long o, as in "phone". So, the "Hon" portion is pronounced exactly like the word "hone". The "da" is pronounced "dah" (which most folks already pronouced correctly).
 
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Big Mac's a Big Mac... but they call it Le Big Mac... You know what they call a Quarter Pounder w/ Cheese in Paris? Royale W/ Cheese.


Japan is Nippon (or Nihon I think) at home....

Germany is Deutchsland

France is Fronce

Canada is Canada eh!

Mexico is MayHikko

Costa Rica is Costa Rica but you have to say it faster... same with Puerto Rico.

No big deal.

Is this what led to your advocacy of musical sabotage of Arab Culture?

I think I heard London calling.
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It ain't called combat rock for nothing.
 
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Okay, time to let off a big pet peeve while we are (sorta) on the subject:

Newscasters try to sound smart and often mispronounce words by doing so. Everyone else follows.

If people mispronounce words because that is the way they learned them, who cares-- the point of language is communication so whatever. When new pronunciations become accepted due to this, that is fine too (like Poinsettia - which Midwesterners say without pronouncing the final "i" - now it is often recorded in dictionaries as an accepted variant, and why not). However, when people mispronounce words because they are trying so hard to sound smart, that kills me. Eventually accepting this smart-but-stupid-speak kills me more.

Examples:

Controversial is pronounced kahn-tro-ver-shul. NOT see-uhl. Ever. Never. It is an overpronunciation and it sucks. However, it has caught on. ugh. the "ial," though here with a preceding "s," has the same origins as that in many other words, such as "presidential." Should we say we have a spesh-ee-uhl pres-ih-dent-ee-uhl debate? Ugh.

Divisive. Good long, hard i in the middle of that word, please, newscaster-boys.

Formidable. Accent the first syllable. Otherwise it is the same mistake people make with comparable, but not because they are trying to sound oh-so-smart.

Okay, I'm done.
 
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I hate the cornholers who suddenly switch to a latino accent to pronounce people's names and places.
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As in

"Today the Sandanistas in Managua celebrated the birthday of Daniel Ortega el presidente of Nicaragua."
 
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