My mother could not say the name Nelson without putting the letter T in between the syllables, Neltson. I'm afraid we mocked her for it, which she took with good grace. I never tried her on Wilson.
Simon: I'm trying to put this as delicately as I can... How do I know you won't kill me in my sleep? Mal: You don't know me, son. So let me explain this to you once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.
'Serenity'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Mar 23, 2011 10:24:35 am PDT #29847 of 30001
brillig
Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2011 10:26:16 am PDT #29848 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
One of my girls says "bitch" by pronouncing every one of the last 3 consonants.
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2011 10:26:26 am PDT #29849 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Misled is my word. How the fuck I got to university thinking "misle" was a verb--I should be ashamed of myself.
Then I found out my considerably more erudite sister did the same thing.
Allyson, I'd love to meet your mother. Seriously.
Daisy Jane - Mar 23, 2011 10:27:16 am PDT #29850 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Who has 2 thumbs and does not want to hop on her newsletter conference call in 3 minutes?
Steph L. - Mar 23, 2011 10:30:09 am PDT #29851 of 30001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I'm similar with February and Wednesday. I know how to pronounce them correctly, but I mis-pronounce them in my head for spelling purposes.
I talk so quickly that I pronounce "twenty" like a lot of people do -- "twenny." And the nuns in my high school, for some reason, always pounced on that and would stop me (or whoever said it) and make them pronounce it correctly -- "twen-tee."
And I still say it "twenny."
Polter-Cow - Mar 23, 2011 10:35:30 am PDT #29852 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You should be a rapper called 20 Cent.
Kathy A - Mar 23, 2011 10:36:40 am PDT #29853 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I had a teacher in high school that busted me for saying "git" instead of "get."
Kate P. - Mar 23, 2011 10:36:53 am PDT #29854 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Misled is my word. How the fuck I got to university thinking "misle" was a verb--I should be ashamed of myself.
Then I found out my considerably more erudite sister did the same thing.
Heh. My very smart dad used to mispronounce it that way as a kid, and now I can't see the word without pronouncing it MIZE-ld in my head.
"Erudite" is one I still have to think about sometimes. (It's ERR-you-dite, right? I always want to say ERR-oo-dite.)
flea - Mar 23, 2011 10:39:08 am PDT #29855 of 30001
information libertarian
I had a HUGE fight with my father about the pronunciation of Amazon (I thought it was "amazin'"). In my defense I was 7 at the time.
Last year I realized enmity was not actually emnity. I was both pronouncing and spelling it wrong, and nobody had ever noticed.
Burrell - Mar 23, 2011 10:39:34 am PDT #29856 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
My pronunciation is OK, but my spelling is pretty atrocious, especially for someone who works with words all day. Still, Greek names? Like Iphegenia or Persephone or Aeschyllus? I am fairly sure I can neither speak nor spell them.
My BiL is really into Taoism, which he pronounces T aoism. I tried to convince him he was wrong, but finally gave up. Perhaps I'm the one who is wrong? Isn't it pronounced D aoism? At least, that's what my high school religions teacher taught me.