To point out that the word is “faze” and not “phase” in this context?

[Anyotherdude]

I’ve been reading so many threads where someone writes about being “phased” or “not phased” about something.
it was bothering me so much that I checked to see if it was me that was getting it wrong.
I didn’t.
To faze is to disturb, bother, or embarrass, but a phase is a stage or step, so you can be phased into a role, but if you’re not bothered by something, it doesn’t faze you!

How do you say “six”? (When standalone)

Unless you say it ”sick” you ARE putting in an “s” sound.

@NameChangeAgain0224 "It will always be sixth (six-th) to me.

Please don’t hate me!!! 😂"

That depends on how you pluralise "text" 😂

It’s too early in the day for this level of confusion 😂

We’ll have to agree to disagree that some people think there is more than one possible pronunciation of the word “sixth”, whereas other people (me) cannot fathom how sixth can be pronounced in more than one way 😂

I withdraw from the debate because it’s driving me to madness 😂

JUST SAY THE WORD SIX OUT LOUD AND TELL US WHETHER IT HAS AN S AT THE END! 😀

Or say out loud the words six and sick. Is there a difference?

Anyway, I'm amused to see in the similar threads list below that the phase/faze question has been asked not once before but at least three times before. I guess this one won't solve it for all time either.

I am astounded at the debate about sixth versus sick-th 🤣 They are two different sounds. Try and say it slowly, with a gap between the first half and the th:
✅ Sicks - th
❌ Sick - th

I used to handle motor insurance claims and received a claim form stating the other driver was "driving erotically". They had meant "driving erratically". Still makes me smile.

Me too, on reading any text, including my own. 🙀😂Though I understand this is on a personal level and YMMV etc. But to use an analogy, for me it's as if I'm listening to a nice quiet violin concerto and someone in the brass section stands up and lets out a long instrumental fart.

May I just say I am delighted to find others who find 'sickth' an abomination. BBC 'broadcasters' are guilty of this these days. Standards are dropping ever further... 😐 The 2 's' sounds do require a bit more effort. I assume it is mostly lazy tongue rather than ignorance? (ends sentence with question mark)

A pronunciation one that always irritates me is when (usually newsreaders) pronounce 'police' as 'pleece'.

Great analogy! Thanks 😂

Wow!

I had somehow been brainwashed into thinking it was ‘phased’ - thank you, thank you, thank you!

This was my late Dad's bugbears, along with secretary being pronounced "secketary".

*bugbear

Someone on TV just said "we commenced starting on the groundwork".

It's a shame you felt you needed to explain the humour to us.

Never acceptable! It's up there with people using enormity to mean "large size".

The verb to infringe. It's not to infringe on. Probably confused with impinge on.

Spelling checker - not spell checker.

Better. Its not more better or more taller or more richer.

Eradicate, not irradicate.

Disdain, not distain.

Ridiculous, not rediculous

Restaurateur, not restauranteur.

Arrive at or in, not arrive to, a place.

Embarrassed by or about, not embarrassed of.

It’s perfectly fine to say infringe on:

[transitive, intransitive] to limit someone's legal rightsinfringe something They said that compulsory identification cards would infringe civil liberties.
infringe on/upon something She refused to answer questions that infringed on her private affairs.

https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/american_english/infringe

There's a surprising amount of seckertary-use on the R4 Today programme. I think that's one I'd want to practice if I was working there...

I get annoyed by someone (anyone!) comparing two things and asking which is "best". I think you mean "better".

And "Can I?" when you mean "May I?" And don't get me started on "Can I get..."

Jonathan Dimbleby on Any Questions? said it for years. Seketerry.

I get annoyed by all these, although I would never correct anyone on here (unless it was a thread in Pedants’ Corner).

One that annoys me that I haven’t seen mentioned yet is the misuse of prone. I’ve seen it in countless books - ‘he lay prone staring at the ceiling’. He must be bloody uncomfortable then! I am very pleased when I see supine used instead.

I realise this one’s a bit nit-pickery, but the misuse of practise/practice and defense/defence kinda grates on me when no Americans are involved.

‘Secketary’ was my DM’s pet pronunciation peeve.