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How do you pronounce superlative?

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SarkyWench · 22/11/2012 19:45

I think that ds1 has been taught this incorrectly.

  1. super-LAY-tiv (to rhyme with "super native")
    or
  2. soo-PER-li-tiv
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DilysPrice · 22/11/2012 21:26

Love Archy-meds. Was he a friend of So-crates?

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SarkyWench · 22/11/2012 21:27

And don't forget hippo-crates.

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SarkyWench · 22/11/2012 21:28

But seriously. What do I do?

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Notquite · 23/11/2012 13:54
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gymboywalton · 23/11/2012 13:54

soo per la tiv

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SarkyWench · 23/11/2012 14:07

ooh. sexy voice :)
thanks Notquite.

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Notquite · 23/11/2012 14:11

Well I have a slight cold...

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mintyneb · 23/11/2012 14:18

the teacher is obviously not using her phonics correctly Wink

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bialystockandbloom · 23/11/2012 14:23

Ha ha!

But what's yoze-might? Confused

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Notquite · 23/11/2012 14:24

Yosemite. Presumably.

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ScrambledSmegs · 23/11/2012 14:25

You can add eppy-tome and or-ree to that list too. Thanks teacher Hmm

Yoze-might = Yosemite.

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bialystockandbloom · 23/11/2012 14:25

What, as in Yosemite National Park?

Rofl.

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BOFingSanta · 23/11/2012 14:58

I used to say yozemite until about twelve months ago Blush

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BarbecuedBillygoats · 23/11/2012 15:06

I love so crates and hippo crates

I agree with everyone else

Have to admit though that even though I know it's not yoze mite I can never remember what it is.

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HanSolo · 23/11/2012 15:30

or-ree????

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ISeeThreadPeople · 23/11/2012 22:41

Awry?

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ScrambledSmegs · 23/11/2012 23:32

Yes, awry. Supply teacher (covering regular teacher's sick leave) actually 'corrected' girls saying those words when reading aloud in class. We all looked rather Hmm at her, and took the piss unceasingly for the rest of the time she was there.

We weren't very nice to her Sad I think she probably hated us.

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SarkyWench · 23/11/2012 23:40

ah-kansus
crew-dites
mail-vo-lent

I'm on a roll...

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ExitPursuedByABear · 23/11/2012 23:43

I pronounce dressage to rhyme with message.

Because it amuses me.

But how many of you ever need to say dressage?

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SarkyWench · 23/11/2012 23:47

I'm wearing some very fine dressage...

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SarkyWench · 23/11/2012 23:48

I regularly tell people that I'm a pendant.
That amuses me.

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ExitPursuedByABear · 23/11/2012 23:51
Grin
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ExitPursuedByABear · 23/11/2012 23:52

And it is crud-ites round here.

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ExitPursuedByABear · 23/11/2012 23:53

And for some strange reason I feel the need to pronounce Glossop as Gloop. Based on the Cholmondeley and Peover principle.

And Slaithwaite. Don't get me started on that.

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SarkyWench · 23/11/2012 23:56

crud-dites are far less classy than crew-dites.

For some reason I describe views as being picture-skew.
Which makes no sense.

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