Right, on Mad Men? "Sinjin"?
More like, in Jane Eyre.
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Right, on Mad Men? "Sinjin"?
More like, in Jane Eyre.
St. John Ffeatherstonehaugh. Now, that's a name.
My favorite is Chartres because everyone wants it to be pronounced the French way.
To be honest, I'm still unclear on that one. I tend to mumble it if I need to say it.
Right, on Mad Men?
Jane Eyre!
Jane Eyre!
lord I love me some buffista brains.
Jane Eyre!
Pronouced Eye-ray.
Or Throatwarblermangrove.
Char-ters, but usually once you've factored in the accent it tends to be more along the lines of CHAW-das.
The name St. John only made sense to me when I imagined the speaker Francophiling it.
When I was in grad school, I was a participant in a linguistics grad student's study. I don't know how it came out, but I essentially had to talk to her for an hour and she asked me where I was from and where my parents were from.
I am certain I had (have?) a set of fucked up pronunciations because I speak in part slang/part west coast/part southern/part east coast. And my slang is all over the place from different ethnicities (I literally will say "bomb diggety" and "chisme" in the same sentence).
I guarantee I'm pronouncing stuff wrong and probably do so on a daily basis.
My favorite word to mispronounce?
allegory. I know how to pronounce it, but I will mispronounce it like nobody's bidness. All the time.
I also mispronounced a lot of British words but that's their fucking fault. "Gloucester" is Gloster? Fuck you for tricking me on purpose, England! "Worcestshire" is Wurstersheer? WTF?
I totally argued with javachik on the spelling of Gloucester. I was like, "It's totally pronounced the way it's spelled!" which it sort of is, if you agree that "glouce" would be pronounced "gloss."