To ask how you pronounce 'secretary'

[eslindanunez]

Is it secre-terry or sec-ret-tree?

RES-tront

Agree that posh accents reduce vowels as much as possible. I have a reasonably posh accent and I'm frequently astonished by how much vowel other people squeeze into words (especially my children's names).

Sec-ruh-tree. Sec-ruh-terry sounds American to me .
Rest-rong (where the final 'ng' is really a Frenchy nasal 'n', not a full-blown English 'ng') Again, rest-or-rong is an American pronunciation to me.

ENN-vlope

Not ON-vuh-lope

RES-tron I think, but you're making me doubt myself. I'm sitting in Pret muttering to myself!

Rest-rawnt pisses me right off.

I say:
Seck-ra-tary
Gah-ridge
Cut-lery
Wenz-day
Rest-or-ront
Scone - rhymes with cone
Veg-ta-buls
Chew-na
Thee-a-ter

TURM-eric (not chewmeric)
CardomoM (not moN)
Tyoo-na

I'm mashing potatoes, wondering how I pronounce envelope. Starting to doubt my own abilities as to how I should speak. I think I say onvelope,.

Almond or Arh-mond?

And it's ESpresso (not expresso) - had to correct DS on that one just yesterday.

Rocket - I agree with all of yours, except for scone. It's SCONN (of course). What is wrong with you?

I'm common as muck...

Almond or Arh-mond

AH-mund

DH says "OLL-mond" which is all kinds of wrong. Mind you, he also says HOLL-fords for Halfords so I think he may just be linguistically challenged.

I grew up pronouncing Look as LEWK and Book as BEWK. Only recently had that beaten out of me.

Oh and it's ALL-Mund in my world.

I'm an All-mund person too.

Grew up in Wales, where people pronounce tooth as in the 'oo' like in 'look or book'. Short vowel sound, rather than the longer tooth (hard to explain).

Now live in SE England and have a friend from London who pronounces tooth in exactly that way, and everyone looks at her sideways. I've not heard it pronounced that way outside of Wales.

Hmm - auto-correct took out a couple of o's in my toooooth

Sec-ruh-TAIR-ee
CUT-luh-ree
VEG-ta-buls
REST-ront
DJOOL-ree

The second sec-re-tree
I'm Yorkshire

D JOOL-ree?
What fresh hell is this?
Where did the extra initial D come from, and what happened to the middle 'e'

It is spelled Jewellery ie, Jewel-E-ry. You don't even have to accentuate the middle e, but for goodness' sake, pronounce the first two syllables, Jew-El ry

I am southerner (U.S) who is severe-to-profound hearing loss in both war since birth so I May not be pronouncing correctly, but I am going to let you know how I say it anyhow:

Sec -A-terry

I love these threads. My dc think I'm nuts trying to say things out loud :D

Almond = Ol-mnd
Tooth = tuth
Restaurant = res-tront
Envelope = en-v-lope
Scone = scon
Vegetables = veg-t-bls
Theatre = thee-a-ta
Tuna = tchew-na (sounds like chew at start but definite 't' sound, too)
Secretary = sec-ruh-tree

Being from the Black Country may explain some of mine...

I love these threads. My dc think I'm nuts trying to say things out loud :D

Almond = Ol-mnd
Tooth = tuth
Restaurant = res-tront
Envelope = en-v-lope
Scone = scon
Vegetables = veg-t-bls
Theatre = thee-a-ta
Tuna = tchew-na (sounds like chew at start but definite 't' sound, too)
Secretary = sec-ruh-tree

Being from the Black Country may explain some of mine...

Sek-eh-tree

Sek-ruh-tre and cut-luh-re

Ah-mund
Jew -el -ree (I especially hate Joolery)

How would you pronounce 'trans' as in transport, transfer, transform?
Rhyming with barns or
rhyming with bans?

My children moan at me for saying:
Tyuna (never chew-na!)
tyube (of toothpaste)
Lyu-is (John Lewis)
Kyu (gardens)

I say sec'r'tri
And sconn