Feb-ROO-ary please

[UnquietDad]

Josh Groban (?) is the latest offender in that song they keep playing on Radio 2. Every time it comes on I want to shout at the radio, "It is Feb-ROO-ary, not Feb-YOO-ary!"

I can't say it. I say Feb and then mumble a bit. I can't say jewellery or brewery either. If I try I get stuck in a weird time space continuum where I mumble ererererereerererer until somebody pokes me with a stick.

Febyery is far more efficient. Three syllables. Any more suggests a person with too much time on their hands. For those really pushed for time I would suggest that the two syllable "febbry" is a perfectly acceptable alternative (cf julry and bruhry).

"Efficiency" is not what Pedants' Corner is all about

Same for me with library - its not 'lie-bree' and twelfth has a f in the middle, its not twelth!!

or the Feberry. distantly related to the Liberry.

Nobody actually says "twel-f-th". That would be madness.

My birthday is in Feruary. My mum trained me at an early age to say Feb- Roo - ary. She is a pedant plus (in the nicest possible way..

Can someone clear this up for me: I get annoyed when I hear 'sickth' instead of 'sixth' - but I've heard it pronounced that way so often now that I'm wondering if I'm committing some sort of serious faux pas, like saying 'haitch' or 'toilet.'

Anyone?

Erm I say 'twelfth.'

< runs off gibbering >

I'm experimenting with 'sixth' and 'twelfth' and am succeeding in spitting on the cat.

Febyery and sikth here - but then I come from Embra!

Do remove the cat to a place of safety if you fancy trying 'the sixth Sheikh's sixth sheep' sick' !!

...sheep's...

Now you see, to me, people who say Febrooary are on a par with people who pronounce the H in honest ignorant twits