How do you pronounce superlative?

[SarkyWench]

I think that ds1 has been taught this incorrectly.

1. super-LAY-tiv (to rhyme with "super native") or
2. soo-PER-li-tiv

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

And don't forget hippo-crates.

But seriously. What do I do?

Pronunciation

soo per la tiv

ooh. sexy voice :)
thanks Notquite.

Well I have a slight cold...

the teacher is obviously not using her phonics correctly

Ha ha!

But what's yoze-might?

Yosemite. Presumably.

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

Yoze-might = Yosemite.

What, as in Yosemite National Park?

Rofl.

I used to say yozemite until about twelve months ago

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.

or-ree????

Awry?

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 at her, and took the piss unceasingly for the rest of the time she was there.

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

ah-kansus
crew-dites
mail-vo-lent

I'm on a roll...

I pronounce dressage to rhyme with message.

Because it amuses me.

But how many of you ever need to say dressage?

I'm wearing some very fine dressage...

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

And it is crud-ites round here.

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.

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

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