How about jewelry?
Thanks! She is from Chicago so that answers the question. I am from metro-NYC and live here now.
My dad grew with the Jewish tradition of pronouncing a lot of Hebrew words differently, especially using an s in place of a t in many places. It threw me a lot when I was a kid and learning prayers but I got used to it.
How about jewelry?
Have you been trying to order the lamb/mutton at Gates BBQ? BiL Alan would order mutton and the person taking the order would ask for clarification. He would repeat mutton and they still didn't understand. After the 3rd time, he would say lamb. The order taker would then shout the order back to the kitchen - and, yes, the shouted order was mutton.
As to bulgogi - I have always heard/used bul-go-gee. I was, however, the person accused of being the only American my Korean friends heard speak Korean with a Japanese accent. (I quit Korean and took Spanish.)
What about those who chronically mispronounce things? As in the word would require a different spelling to be pronounced that way?
Examples: Sedwick Rd is pronounced Sedgewick Rd. And the people are so sure that it is correct that they even start spelling it Sedgewick.
Chipotle is pronounced CHI-POL-TAY.
I had a co-worker who mispronounced things (over and over) so badly that half the time we had no idea what she was talking about. McKesson is McKeachen. Garrett Rd is Garnet Rd.
As for grammar . . . I was raised by two grammar snobs. The wrong use of "I" is like fingernails on a chalkboard. Just take the other person out of the equation. Bryan Adams took poetic license, but it still irks me: If they ever found out about you and I. Just take out "you". If they ever find out about I?!? No. "If they ever found out about me" becomes "If they ever found out about you and me." Not that hard to figure out.
me and Tony Soprano pronounce gobbagool the same way, FWIW. Same with proshoot.
I agree! We were taught this rule (to take the second person out of the phrase) in elementary school. But so many people don’t get it, and the numbers seem to be growing. My Duke roommate who is a college professor makes this mistake routinely in both spoken and written comments. I have not had the guts to point out the mistake.
So many of these are regional or country specific. As I get older and grumpier I am more inclined to forgive pronunciation differences. Grammatical stuff I find harder to let go.
Two bother me:
1) I don’t know why we don’t pronounce the names of other countries the way people who live there do: Mehico, Espania, etc
2) why is the word amateur pronounced amater in the world of golf?
Salve. No matter how I say it, my wife says I'm wrong.
Here in Georgia we have a real problem with people calling pecans (puh-kaan) pee-cans. Pee-can pie sounds disgusting.