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Temperature != 'tempichur'

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Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: DrPizza

For shits and giggles though, how do you pronounce Worcestershire sauce?
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WERST-esh-shur
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(I posted that for him to point out the ridiculousness of his claim - usually people from England & Australia pronounce it correctly.)
 
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: sandorski
Dude, New Zealanders don't pronounce anything correctly......
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This isn't an accent thing. People are skipping an entire syllable, and it sounds ridiculous.
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You're right. It's not an accent thing. It's a dialect thing. Once a pronunciation of a word becomes so prevalent in a region, it becomes a de facto way of pronouncing that word.

English is a language that is so widespread among so many different areas of the world, each region will eventually adopt their own way of saying certain words. That is the natural evolution of the English language. If everybody pronounced every word your "correct" way, we'd all be still speaking the Queen's English.
 
Originally posted by: DayLaPaul
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: sandorski
Dude, New Zealanders don't pronounce anything correctly......
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This isn't an accent thing. People are skipping an entire syllable, and it sounds ridiculous.
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You're right. It's not an accent thing. It's a dialect thing. Once a pronunciation of a word becomes so prevalent in a region, it becomes a de facto way of pronouncing that word.

English is a language that is so widespread among so many different areas of the world, each region will eventually adopt their own way of saying certain words. That is the natural evolution of the English language. If everybody pronounced every word your "correct" way, we'd all be still speaking the Queen's English.
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GTFO with your logic, I'm ranting :|
 
You think temperature is bad? You ever watch King of the Hill? Imagine a whole state that talks like Boomhauer. That really does exist.
 
TEMP-rah-chur

The only accent that gets on my nerves is a country accent, like the REALLY bad one. The slight ones I eventually get over.
 
You are from New Zealand, you sound like a brit so of course you pronounce it like that.
 
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
And how is one suppose to pronounce it? People always pronounce it that way. Well more like temperchur but some use the i as well.
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Correctly. How it's spelt. Tem-per-ah-chur.
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Because every words correct pronunciation is exactly as it is spelled. That's ridiculous (OWAIT RIDICULOUS ISNT PRONOUNCED AS ITS SPELLED OMG)





 
"tem-pra-chur"

Roll your "r" a bit and it's a nice compromise.

Also, I hear that if you become less of a douchebag, minor things will bother you less.
 
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
"tem-pra-chur"

Roll your "r" a bit and it's a nice compromise.

Also, I hear that if you become less of a douchebag, minor things will bother you less.
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LOL!
 
Originally posted by: sandorski
Dude, New Zealanders don't pronounce anything correctly......
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so me ehn my m8 were w8'n 4 our m8 who was l8 cos eh had a d8 with a grade 8 m8 of his an eh said it was gr8 so ne woiys me m8 pulls up en ehs subaru an ahm loik "m8 y dont we droive on the footpawth an run owvah sem m8s
 
Originally posted by: DrPizza
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/temperature
http://dictionary.reference.co...owse/temperature?jss=0

Perhaps you should look before you make a thread.

For shits and giggles though, how do you pronounce Worcestershire sauce?

(omfg, he's going to skip over an entire syllable!)
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woo-steh-shear
http://www.merriam-webster.com...c02.wav=Worcestershire


not too different from Gloucester (gloster)
http://www.merriam-webster.com...gglou03.wav=Gloucester
 
Originally posted by: yh125d
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
And how is one suppose to pronounce it? People always pronounce it that way. Well more like temperchur but some use the i as well.
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Correctly. How it's spelt. Tem-per-ah-chur.
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Because every words correct pronunciation is exactly as it is spelled. That's ridiculous (OWAIT RIDICULOUS ISNT PRONOUNCED AS ITS SPELLED OMG)
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How do you pronounce 'ridiculous'?
 
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: yh125d
Originally posted by: GodlessAstronomer
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
And how is one suppose to pronounce it? People always pronounce it that way. Well more like temperchur but some use the i as well.
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Correctly. How it's spelt. Tem-per-ah-chur.
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Because every words correct pronunciation is exactly as it is spelled. That's ridiculous (OWAIT RIDICULOUS ISNT PRONOUNCED AS ITS SPELLED OMG)
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How do you pronounce 'ridiculous'?
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ri dick yu lus. Instead of ri dick yu lows as the spelling might indicate
 
Originally posted by: yh125d
Because every words correct pronunciation is exactly as it is spelled. That's ridiculous (OWAIT RIDICULOUS ISNT PRONOUNCED AS ITS SPELLED OMG)
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Unless you're Balki, I don't see how you can pronounce ridiculous any way other than how it is spelled.

 
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