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.

I know, i took the piss before, quite early on, but I'm just trying to go back it, and work out what 'pendantic' would mean if it was a word.

Of course, this being English, we can make it be a word! (Like wnaky!)

that typo has generated a greater response than might otherwise have been the case

and it has been the delight of ALL

If common is accurate, then before long we will all be saying "seck-utry" and "nuke-ular" and "I isn't" and "you was" and writing "nevermind" as one word. Gods help us. Someone has to man the barricades!

Oops. Sorry NQC.

UQD - it was in Nature too.

I don't think 'I isn't' is very common usage, but 'you was' is perfectly normal in some dialects.

Wed-n-sday
Febrrry

I have a (very, very slight, of course) sibilance. Don't like batholith much. But luckily it doesn't come up as often as February.

Pendantic is when one's hanging around to see if someone will respond to one's v clever post, surely.

Feb - you - erry

my heart goes out to you UQD, I feel your pain. I want to cry every time my children say Haitch - that is correct apparently, according to the school. Why do they believe their teacher but not their mother. WHY?

Does the same apply with January? Jan'ry, Jan-you-erry, Jan-ary

Fair enough, but the problem with Wikipedia is that errors can sit there for days uncorrected, and have plenty of time to be quoted as gospel. They will be corrected eventually, because it is policed, but an inaccurate version can still be "published" first. Britannica won't go to press until it has been fact-checked.

January, sick and tired you've been hanging on me?

V apt.

Jan-u-ry

I am trying to work out how I say February. I am failing.

Kbear - but there's no r in it. It's not "Janruary".

But oh, god, yes, I feel PHYSICAL pain every time I hear "haitch", and indeed often have to be restrained from committing acts of violence.

Jan-yurry

I have a lazy way of speaking posh drawl

Why didn't that strike through why

Bugger all works on this thread I blame your UQD

blame whose UQD GOML?

I know, I am infecting every post with my pendantry (sic).

ARRRRGGGHHHHH

I am going to chew my own fingers off to avoid posting more mistakes and crap on this thread

I am suitably ashamed and penitent

how long did it take you to proof read your last post getorf?

I am the linguistic Village Green Preservation Society.

And proud of it!!

I love the distinction between 'slip of the keyboard' and 'a stupidity error'.

Reminds me of when our builder did a crap job on our kitchen. When I listed all the things that were wrong he brightly said, 'Oh, that's just the snagging.'

So I thought 'snagging' was a technical term for a special sort of quite understandable error. Whereas in fact it just means 'all the stuff that we just messed up first time around.'

My distinction is that I don't actually think it is "pendantry"! And if MN had an "edit" facility (old argument, I know) I'd have corrected it.