So is it pendantic to be very annoyed when DD and others insist on pronouncing FEBRUARY incorrectly?

[UnquietDad]

I am SICK and TIRED of saying

"Feb - rooo - erry. NOT Feb-yery."

If DD does it again - and I swear she is now doing it deliberately to wind me up - I am going to have to disown her.

towesr?

According to wikipedia, and other sources, the pronounciation your DD is using is normal, but disputed. More normal in North America than here, but still ...

I hate February.

And library.

Have a slight 'r' problem.

They are killers.

feb u ary is more usual as a pronociation surely?

Oh I give up

NQC - yes, but Wikipedia is a pile of bobbins which anyone can edit! It's most useful for its links to articles which have actually been edited and checked...

I have been known to dispute the "common=accurate" argument.

i say wedd'ns-day. same reason I say feb-roo-ary. It's all down to Miss Creek, a terrifying, harsh, posh teacher at my primary school, who used to tell us off for having Yorkshire accents (this was in Leeds).

All this reminds me. The other night I watched that channel 4 show "1983: edge of apocalypse" - something like that. Anyway, the woman doing the voiceover kept pronouncing nuclear as new-killer rather than new-clear. I almost wrote a letter (as you do). It did my brain in. Very distracting in a show about the threat of nuclear war. ho hum. back to shed.

Yes, it was Gina McKee, who otherwise has a delightful voice.

loving the fact the thread title has a typo. Tee hee.

UQD perhaps you need to edit the February entry on Wikipedia.

Please change it, tech! Pleeeeeease!

Didn't some study show wikipedia to have fewer errors than Encyclopaedia Britannica?

Yes, a study written on Wikipedia

people who pronounce all the syllable in vegetable - veg-et-ibb-bul- need to be twatted round the head with a large parsnip.

UD - but English is based on common=accurate, I'm afraid. If you want to avoid that argument, you have to start speaking French or German or some other language that has a governing body and rules.

Tut, tut... should you be introducing your DD to the idea that this month has a brewery in it?

UQD, I saw at the end that it was Gina McKee, whose work I've always quite admired. I felt a little disappointed. I did wonder if they just didn't dare to tell her to re-record bits - cos she's a "movie star". And no, we aren't changing the title

And this 'bad' pronunciation is in the dictionaries too.

Ah.

Now, coming back to the common/correct thing...

Isn't that how it works in language? Things become 'correct' through widespread usage.

Unless you're French perhaps.

Presumably pendantic has something to do with pendants?

i say febreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

NQC, you are about half an hour late with your joke about my typing error. I have even taken the piss out if it myself!

I say Feb'ry, Wens'dy

I don't think I could actually say Feb-ru-ary without sounding pissed.

out OF it.

Thids threda iz jxined

we aer all truning inot cod