Re: I despair (take 2 ...) OT

In message , Johny B Good writes

I certainly noticed that, almost overnight, 'iz-LARM-ist' suddenly became 'IZZ-luh-mist'.

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Ian Jackson
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Well, the Americans spell it as Aluminum, so they say it correctly. The metal was called Aluminum before it was changed later to Aluminium with an I. I think Aluminium is more logical, but whoever named it first does have more claim to be correct.

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MattyF

Numeracy teacher with Paddy, walking through the park: points to a tree with

3 big piles of dog-shit under it "Paddy, how many items are there?". Paddy "Four". Teacher "Very good - how did you do that?". Paddy "Easy miss, tree and tree turds".
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PeterC

And the omission of hyphens, sometimes even reversing the meaning, e.g. sugar free, from which I infer that I'm not being charged for the sugar and then feel cheated when I find out that there's no sugar anyway.

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PeterC

Unless the naming is incorrect, e.g. quadrophonic(?) when it should be quadrosonic or tetraphonic.

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PeterC

Don't forget 'television' is also a hybrid.

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The Other John

In all my years living there (30+), I only met folks who didn't understand simple English words, such as 'fortnight' and 'twice'. And as for 'thrice' I might as well have been speaking Martian. I hated their pronunciation of 'schedule' as 'skedule', and 'submariner' as 'sub-mareener', as well as 'consorshium' for 'consortium'. One of their worst exports is 'gonna', in my view. Pure laziness.

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Davey

The ones that drive me crazy are the New England pronounciation of "buoy" as "boo-ey". And burglarise. Still, it's their language, let them pronounce it how they like.

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Huge

What is this 'pronounciation' of which I hope you don't normally speak?

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Ian Jackson

I still can't see how "solder" becomes "sodder" ...

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Jethro_uk

and before that, it was "Islamic" ....

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Jethro_uk

Keeping away from the spooky nuns.

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Huge

I heard 'boo-ey' all over the country, unfortunately. And it is 'burglarize', surely? They can't seem to put an 's' on that spot. I shivered the day I heard Johnny Carson use the word 'conceptualize', but I have heard it here recently, more's the pity. We always said that we wouldn't mind them using their pronunciation if only they would stop calling it 'English'. 'American' or 'American English' would be far better names, but they insisted on calling it 'English', even to the point of dropping a very intelligent English immigrant child a class year because she didn't speak it correctly. One very well-spoken English adult we knew failed her North Carolina Driving Test because she didn't speak 'properly'.

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Davey

makes you wonder how English came about doesn;t it ;-)

A sort of mix of latin, german, french, spanish etc...

Not many of us English people left that still speak proper English like wot shakespeare did :-D

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whisky-dave

The brilliant thing about "burglarize" is how they then backfilled the language to justify it.

You're not burgled, you're "burglarized". You don't catch a burglar, you catch a "burglarizer". You're not locked up for burglary, but "burglarization".

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Jethro_uk

Rather similar to someone I heard on the radio a few years ago saying that he "compostionized" music.

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charles

Not really. 'Islamic' is still used, but simply refers to the practice of Islam, and things pertaining to it. 'Islamist' refers more to extremism and fundamentalism.

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Ian Jackson

In message , Jethro_uk writes

You 'shood' be able to work that out for yourself!

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Ian Jackson

Shouldn't that be Geoffrey Chaucer?

Colin Bignell

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Nightjar

I didn't get that memo :( I also missed the one renaming world cities ....

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Jethro_uk

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