RHEtoric RHEtoric, RHEtoric

[Jux]

Not rheTORic. Ffs

Yes Jus, I know!

And my post should have said news readers, of course

and its negoSHEay-shuns

NOT negoSEEay-shuns

if the first ti in negotiations is SEE then you should surely say negoSEE aySEEns and no one does that! so Negoseeayshuns is just plain wrong.

tbh with all the Bregzit Negoseeayshuns it's a miracle I haven't gone off pop

Br-exit with an x Negosheayshuns

S(c)Heduke/SChedule is an English/American English issue. The C is pronounced in America.
Like we pronounce lieutenant leftenant and the Americans go with Lootenant.

Couple that grind my gears

disTRIbute not DIStribute
conTRIbute not CONtribute

Gahhhhh

It's cerVIcal not CERvical

IT's cerVIcal when its about the spine, CERvical when related to the cervix.

It’s defuse (dee-fuse) (a potentially explosive situation) not diff-use.
I recently heard a BBC reporter use both pronunciations in one sentence. I decided he wasn’t sure about which word to use so tried both.

In welsh, every word has the stress on the last but one syllable. every. single. word. avoids all this nonsense.

Some of the differences are due to the onward creep of Americanisms...

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MunIcipal or MuniCIPAL

The former for me.

I also wonder when reSEARCH became REEEEEEEsearch

This one I think is to do with whether it's a noun or a verb. Verb is REsearch, but the noun is reSEARCH.

Much like a lot of other similar words:
reCORD (verb) / REcord (noun)
inCREASE (verb) / INcrease (noun)
perMIT (verb) / PERmit (noun)

Etc etc. There are loads actually.

Advertisement sounds dense, I’m afraid.

Oops. I mean adverTISEment.

There's a bloke at my work always talks about MainTAINance. Drives me up the fucking wall

Thanks for that, @FlashingLights, interesting.

@Owlbethere, never knew that. Should I ever start to learn Welsh I shall remember that. I think my dad once said a similar thing about Latin, but I'm not sure that that's not a figment of my imagination! (And he was the sort of man who pronounced 'Conduit' as 'cundit'. His best friend said 'cumputer' and also 'heelicopter', so maybe I should ignore all my childhood pronunciations!)

The weather people on the news here say “tempeture” instead of “temperature”. Drives me batty.

Also “liberry” instead of “library”. Argh!!!

Withdrawal not withdrawral

SATnav. Not satNAV (I'm looking at you, mum)

Happy NEW year..... or happy new YEAR

PAcific instead of SPEcific.

Being precise is not an ocean.

Arrrrgggg.

I am getting weird looks from DH as I sit in bed testing out these pronunciations

Research is always research - and never reeeesearch! (I work in research and it drives me nuts)

I don't really get bothered by these with the exception of newsreaders saying pleece rather than police (as someone has already mentioned). It's just lazy and it drives me mad!

@jux I didn’t know it either until I studied linguistics and welsh is my first language
Latin is similar but a bit more complicated (because of course it is, when did Latin ever make things easy) the way I understand it the stress is either the third or second last syllable depending on if the syllables after it are long or short. Not entirely sure what s long or short syllable is though. I’ll stick to welsh.

A friend says ordossity instead of audacity. Frequently. Irritating in the extreme.