DH pronounces it "covvid"

[Zib]

Repeatedly,

Every time I feel a little twist of contempt.

It's Covid, Co as in .co.uk and vid as in video. Isn't it? AIBU?

Basic phonics, co vid. Not cov vid.

Endless debate in our house between:

BIO -pic and Bi-OPIC

And yes, I too had a manager who says covvid. This was despite doing a lot of Covid response stuff on a daily basis and literally everyone else say co-vid. Weird.

@DuckBilledFattypus you've just explained yourself that it's not 🙈

It's an abbreviation of three separate words, not a shortened version of "Coronavirus". There are lots of types of Coronavirus, they're not all COVID.

The 'Co' in Covid comes from the word Coronavirus.

DM says Corvid - not sure what crows have got to do with it…

And you have tagged the wrong poster!

Do you pronounce coronation as "cor-OH-nation", then?

Words often change pronunciation when you shorten or adapt them - there can't possibly be one blanket rule for all words based on their etymology as language adapts as necessary to communicate new things.

The Corona part of coronavirues is from Corona, Latin for crown, because the spike proteins on the virus surface look like a crown under the microscope. So on that basis its Covid. As you say Corona, not Corrona. I don't know why we don't say Coronation though and it's Corronation.

I think some pronunciations are agreed by concensus in daily use and it's definitely COVID. Why would you go against 99.9% of the population and say COVID?

I wond up my team by saying UCKAS form instead of UCAS (YOU AS) - as I'm sure thats what my school called it! (And it really winds him up 😄). I also say POV instead of P.O.V - but I do that deliberately as I find the POV but superfluous and it annoys me.

Pronouncing it as covvid makes me bristle. Yanbu!!

Equal stress on the first two syllables of 'Coronation' but not 'co' as in 'co.uk' at the start.

Omg spell check. Second one should be COVID and I wind up my teens, not my team!

Haha no but I think I'll start TikTok 😂

I have some sympathy! I used to pronounce Botox Bott-ox and my friends were slagging me and laughing! But I said it's a derivative of Botulism though. Nobody says Bo-tulism.
Anyway I have corrected myself! I was wrong..............

I love tik TOK - I'm going to do that one. And snap CHAT.

I take your tuth paste and raise you blue tuth.

Grrr

Excellent! There's a world of ways here to irritate the DC

TikTOK is a good one.

I like meme - MEH-may - to wind up the young adults.

Equal stress on the first two syllables of 'Coronation' but not 'co' as in 'co.uk' at the start.

Yes, the stress is on the "na" part, but according to the Cambridge online dictionary, the sounds of the first and second "o"s aren't equal.

The 'Co' in Covid comes from the word Coronavirus.

I know 🙄

That still doesn't mean COVID is short for Coronavirus.

COVID is just shorthand, like AIBU or GCSE.

Fab 😂 Gotta be done

You feel contempt?

He is BU to be mentioning this at all. Don't think I've even used the word for the best part of 2 years, as it's very tedious and now completely irrelevant.

Is it though? We're all home ill with it. It doesn't feel that irrelevant to us...

Did you or more importantly he survive lockdown together saying this or is this a new husband?

My mother pronounces it ‘cuvid.’ WTF?

Tuthpaste is a regional thing. It’s ‘tuthperst’ where I come from.

My husband does it with Quality STREET! Luckily the quality has gone downhill and we haven’t had them in the house for years.