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Old 28-03-2015, 21:21   #1
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I like to think my written English is good, but, at times, my pronunciation can be a bit wayward. I have been known to pronounce anemone as Annie Moan and graffiti as Graffy Tie. My latest gaffe, during the burial of Dickie 3, was to pronounce Plantagenet as Plant A Jen Et. It made the dear mater laugh when she corrected me.

P.S. Apologies to anyone called Annie.
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proNOUNciation rather than pronunciation,usually made by those who should know better (main stream media).
The best one I've heard was off a guy who spoke of swimming in the specific ocean
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I used to work in Manchester, and I noticed a lot of Mancunians pronounced have as Of.
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I used to work in Manchester, and I noticed a lot of Mancunians pronounced have as Of.
Could you be a bit more pacific
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Could you be a bit more pacific
We of got to be more pacific.
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I like to think my written English is good, but, at times, my pronunciation can be a bit wayward. I have been known to pronounce anemone as Annie Moan and graffiti as Graffy Tie. My latest gaffe, during the burial of Dickie 3, was to pronounce Plantagenet as Plant A Jen Et. It made the dear mater laugh when she corrected me.

P.S. Apologies to anyone called Annie.
If your mater had got angry with you, Michael, would have have been able to specify her ?
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Old 29-03-2015, 10:19   #7
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A friend of mine had a car with a panasonic (panoramic) sun roof.
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I still have trouble pronouncing Armageddon. I pronounce it Ar-meg-a-don. My hubbie says that sounds like a dinosaur
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Try, "Au in der hallertau" after sitting in their brewery beer garden for a few hours.
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I love my better half's tale of going to Ireland on a catameringue.
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I once knew a bloke who could throw darts with either hand, he said he was ambiguous.
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I used to work in Manchester, and I noticed a lot of Mancunians pronounced have as Of.
That happens all the time - It's not a pronunciation issue, though: I think the people that do it genuinely think it's the word they should be using. "I would of said..." etc. You see it written on Facebook a lot, and not just by the younger generation.
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Slightly off topic... I thought that version of the pink panther in the video above was a load of rubbish.
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Studio 25 is right they are not mis pronunciations but what are called Malapropisms after Mrs Malaprop in the play The Rivals.
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