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Post by Firebird on Oct 17, 2014 11:02:02 GMT -5
You can go by Lay-Waff. That has a nice ring to it.
For anyone who was wondering, mine is pronounced Fee-RAY-boird.
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Post by dannylion on Oct 17, 2014 11:14:08 GMT -5
Where does it start to be funny and why subject is funny? Pls xplain. Thanks Loony, you need to look up the definition of the word "cologne," which was the word that was intended in the original text and the definition of the word "colon," which was the word the texter actually used. It's funny because the texter cannot spell and apparently knows nothing about anatomy, creating a hilarious juxtaposition of images. Or something. Anyway, it's a hoot. Trust us.
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Post by cktc on Oct 17, 2014 11:14:41 GMT -5
despite my simplistic screen name, my real name is a bit "off" and nobody ever spells or pronounces it right on the first try.
My last name gives some people panic attacks and I really don't understand. It's English origin, follows standard pronunciation rules, there was a famous general with the same name, but it is long and people always think it's French so they either mangle or don't even bother to attempt it. I've been working for my boss for 8 years and she still asks me every time she has to say or spell it
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Post by tloonya on Oct 17, 2014 11:33:04 GMT -5
Where does it start to be funny and why subject is funny? Pls xplain. Thanks Loony, you need to look up the definition of the word "cologne," which was the word that was intended in the original text and the definition of the word "colon," which was the word the texter actually used. It's funny because the texter cannot spell and apparently knows nothing about anatomy, creating a hilarious juxtaposition of images. Or something. Anyway, it's a hoot. Trust us. Thannks! OMG, its funny as hell!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 11:41:22 GMT -5
Where does it start to be funny and why subject is funny? Pls xplain. Thanks Loony, you need to look up the definition of the word "cologne," which was the word that was intended in the original text and the definition of the word "colon," which was the word the texter actually used. It's funny because the texter cannot spell and apparently knows nothing about anatomy, creating a hilarious juxtaposition of images. Or something. Anyway, it's a hoot. Trust us. Thank you dannylion. I searched colon word and only I thought it was grids I didn't no about cologne word.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2014 12:26:19 GMT -5
I have students who have unique pronunciations. I had an Alyssa that pronounced it Alicia. One of my favorite Comedy Club jokes was a black comic who was laughing at names. He said his sister named her son Trashawn. This was a verbal joke, remember, so he asked her how to spell it. She spelled it "T-r-a-s-h-c-a-n."
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Post by Firebird on Oct 17, 2014 12:37:57 GMT -5
I have students who have unique pronunciations. I had an Alyssa that pronounced it Alicia.
Who came up with that, her parents or her? It's curious to me that her "unique pronunciation" is actually a totally different name. If it was the parents who began pronouncing it that way, why didn't they just name her Alicia in the first place?
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Post by billisonboard on Oct 17, 2014 12:54:04 GMT -5
My daughter came to me one day when she was about 10 with a piece of paper that had about 25 letters strung together. It included at least a couple of "q's" and "z's". She informed me that it was her name. I told her, "How do we pronounce it?" She said, "Kelly." I told her that while she was welcome to spell her name anyway that she wanted, the problem that I saw was that no one would look at the combination of letters and come up with that pronunciation. She was bummed but got over it and continued to spell her name in the more "conventional" way.
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Post by lexxy703 on Oct 17, 2014 13:44:44 GMT -5
Cool, I took that dialect quiz & it nailed down where I live to a tee!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 20, 2014 19:22:10 GMT -5
My daughter came to me one day when she was about 10 with a piece of paper that had about 25 letters strung together. It included at least a couple of "q's" and "z's". She informed me that it was her name. I told her, "How do we pronounce it?" She said, "Kelly." I told her that while she was welcome to spell her name anyway that she wanted, the problem that I saw was that no one would look at the combination of letters and come up with that pronunciation. She was bummed but got over it and continued to spell her name in the more "conventional" way. Name stories....... I'll just share a couple. I know someone who named her son Marquis. She gets exasperated that people don't see that it should be pronounced like "Marquez". I avoided addressing "Kweilyn" by her name, because I wasn't sure how that was suppose to be pronounced. I overheard somebody call her what sounded like "Goylyn" and voila! I knew what "Kweilyn" spelled. I would've NEVER gotten that right on my own.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Oct 20, 2014 19:43:42 GMT -5
Waffle, that's OK, you've been talking to mi-LAY'.
despite my simplistic screen name, my real name is a bit "off" and nobody ever spells or pronounces it right on the first try.
Same here!! I get so frustrated having to correct people who I encounter for the first time, and they see my written first name, and then pronounce it incorrectly (like a bank manager, doctor, etc. for example). New people I've met do learn (eventually) after being corrected a couple of times, but what a pain "training" people.
It's really not all that difficult to say it correctly if you pronounce it phonetically by the way it's spelled.
I've been going by my middle name for the last decade or so to get away from it, except when signing legal documents or contracts.
Throw my married last name into the mix and it's a nightmare. My DH was Ukrainian, and there's a silent S at the beginning of the name, followed by a Z.
So if my name was (for example) "Szombie", it would be pronounced "Zombie".
Instead I get pronunciations like "Suzombie" or "Sizombie".
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Oct 20, 2014 21:08:09 GMT -5
I don't think I've ever heard the word "detritus" used in conversation, just in books. So now my passive language brain and my active language brain are fencing about it. And the passive vs active language reminds me of another Terry Pratchett character - Tiffany Aching (who lived on a sheep farm and read the dictionary for fun. So she has a HUGE passive vocabulary and no idea how to pronounce a lot of words), which is also on my "need to re-read except I can't find my hardcover copies and am contemplating shelling out $30 for the Kindle set of all 4 books. My husband mentions "detritus" in conversation once in awhile. I have to remember to ask him if that's composed of flotsam and jetsam.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Oct 20, 2014 21:08:37 GMT -5
Terry Pratchett. Superb.
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Post by dannylion on Oct 20, 2014 21:16:54 GMT -5
Voila is pronounced as "vwala." The issue with voila is that there are those who do not know of its existence as a written word and have only heard or misheard it in conversation, so they think it is "wala" and persist in writing "wala" when they mean "voila" and become abusive if the truth is pointed out to them. If i'm feeling feisty, i'll mispronounce it as the musical instrument and say "vee-oh-la" when I should have said "wala"
wife is an English major.
That's just mean.
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Post by teen persuasion on Oct 21, 2014 8:42:35 GMT -5
I have no idea what that "zj ohn vee ev" sounds like. The only Genevieve I know of is a designer on HGTV. It sounds to me like she calls herself jen uh veev . Regardless, wouldn't the correct pronunciation of a person's name be whatever that person said it was? (Or the person's parent, if the person is a child).
Yes, the correct pronunciation of a person's name is absolutely whatever that person says it is.
I'm just pointing out the American tendency to be kind of narcissistic and frankly a bit ignorant about these things. IMHO it's pretty lame bordering on obnoxious to take a name that actually has a standard pronunciation and act like someone is crazy for using that standard pronunciation and not the crazy hick sound you've chosen at random.
"I have no idea why you're calling me Waffle like my name sounds like 'awful.' It's pronounced 'waff- lay' you heathen!"
Anyone ever seen the Brit-com "Keeping Up Appearances"? The uppity main character's last name is Bucket, but she insists on pronouncing it Bouquet. Even her husband is confused by it.
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Post by Waffle on Oct 21, 2014 9:43:10 GMT -5
Anyone ever seen the Brit-com "Keeping Up Appearances"? The uppity main character's last name is Bucket, but she insists on pronouncing it Bouquet. Even her husband is confused by it.
Yes, I like that show. There was one episode where her husband said the name was Bucket, before he got married. LOL
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Post by Waffle on Oct 21, 2014 9:46:22 GMT -5
Do any of you - or your family members mis-pronounce words on purpose? I grew up in a household where we were served "snake" (steak), My mother once owned a "cam er roo" (camero). I'm sure there were others, but those are the only two that come to mind, right now.
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Post by Pants on Oct 21, 2014 9:54:18 GMT -5
Yup. We mispronounce or make up words all the time.
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Post by milee on Oct 21, 2014 9:57:32 GMT -5
Do any of you - or your family members mis-pronounce words on purpose? Yes. My MIL is very passive-aggressive because although she has very strict ideas on how things should be she is insecure about speaking her opinion directly because she's traditional and feels that's unseemly for women. She's too uncomfortable to actually say she disagrees or disproves of something, so seeks out weird little ways to comment without being forced to state her opinion. For example, with people she dislikes or feels their name is ugly/pretentious/ghetto/whatever she deliberately and repeatedly mispronounces their name, slowly and loudly.
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Post by teen persuasion on Oct 21, 2014 10:04:38 GMT -5
Do any of you - or your family members mis-pronounce words on purpose? I grew up in a household where we were served "snake" (steak), My mother once owned a "cam er roo" (camero). I'm sure there were others, but those are the only two that come to mind, right now. Well, my mother always jokingly pronounced waffles as "awfuls". Let's see: ba-DAYda (potato), roast beast (beef), spets-lee (spaetzle) I'm sure there are others.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2014 10:11:03 GMT -5
Do any of you - or your family members mis-pronounce words on purpose? I grew up in a household where we were served "snake" (steak), My mother once owned a "cam er roo" (camero). I'm sure there were others, but those are the only two that come to mind, right now. I do. It's mostly people's names, and I do it with people I'm fond of. I call Wendy Wednesday, Sabrina Sabrinda, and give some people random middle names, like Tina is Tina Marie.
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Post by Angel! on Oct 21, 2014 11:29:47 GMT -5
I once had a survey call and the person giving the survey had clearly not ever heard some of the words & was never told how to pronounce them. Half the survey was on "fraking" & I couldn't figure out what the heck she was talking about. Maybe it is pronounced different in other areas of the country, but here fracking is pronounced like they do on Battlestar galactica.
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Post by myrrh on Oct 21, 2014 12:07:00 GMT -5
That survey pegged where I grew up perfectly too. Which is interesting because neither of my parents are from here, and apparently their phrases didn't rub off on me. Especially my dad - he still calls coke "soda pop". He was visiting a few months ago and commented that when he was younger ketchup was both spelled and pronounced catsup, and now it's changed. I wonder what that survey would do with military brats who've lived in multiple places. Angel, how else would you pronounce fraking?
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Post by Angel! on Oct 21, 2014 12:11:29 GMT -5
That survey pegged where I grew up perfectly too. Which is interesting because neither of my parents are from here, and apparently their phrases didn't rub off on me. Especially my dad - he still calls coke "soda pop". He was visiting a few months ago and commented that when he was younger ketchup was both spelled and pronounced catsup, and now it's changed. I wonder what that survey would do with military brats who've lived in multiple places. Angel, how else would you pronounce fraking? She was pronouncing it fraking, as in rhymes with raking. The real word in fracking & should rhyme with stacking.
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Post by Nazgul Girl on Oct 21, 2014 14:39:58 GMT -5
I was re-reading the header, and decided I hate the smell of anyone's colon.
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Post by Pants on Oct 21, 2014 15:02:38 GMT -5
Oh I dunno, I don't think mine's so bad.
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Post by Peace Of Mind on Oct 21, 2014 15:10:23 GMT -5
This thread reminded me of something stupid I said (one of many) when I was a teenager. I started working in banking at 17 years old in the bookkeeping dept. Insufficient funds was a common topic in that line of work. My mom and I were talking about this idiot person and I said in exasperation "He's just so damned insufficient!" My mom cracked up and said that actually that was probably more accurate than inefficient which she knew was what I meant to say. She said his brains were definitely insufficient! There is no doubt where I got my sense of humor.
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Post by weltschmerz on Oct 21, 2014 15:35:29 GMT -5
My daughter came to me one day when she was about 10 with a piece of paper that had about 25 letters strung together. It included at least a couple of "q's" and "z's". She informed me that it was her name. I told her, "How do we pronounce it?" She said, "Kelly." I told her that while she was welcome to spell her name anyway that she wanted, the problem that I saw was that no one would look at the combination of letters and come up with that pronunciation. She was bummed but got over it and continued to spell her name in the more "conventional" way. I heard of a woman named Ladasha. It was spelled like this: La-a
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Post by Pants on Oct 21, 2014 15:43:21 GMT -5
My daughter came to me one day when she was about 10 with a piece of paper that had about 25 letters strung together. It included at least a couple of "q's" and "z's". She informed me that it was her name. I told her, "How do we pronounce it?" She said, "Kelly." I told her that while she was welcome to spell her name anyway that she wanted, the problem that I saw was that no one would look at the combination of letters and come up with that pronunciation. She was bummed but got over it and continued to spell her name in the more "conventional" way. I heard of a woman named Ladasha. It was spelled like this: La-a You're joking right?
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Post by Angel! on Oct 21, 2014 15:45:35 GMT -5
I heard of a woman named Ladasha. It was spelled like this: La-a You're joking right? I was going to go the other way & ask how many people have this name. Both my mom & BFF have dealt with someone with this name & have the same story about the pronunciation.
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