Secketary

[MyTattooIsBetterThanYours]

It isn’t secketary.

It is SECK-RE-TARY.

It doesn’t matter if you’re the Home Secretary or the Foreign Secretary, you are not a Secketary.

It’s going to be a long night.

I watched A Place in the Sun recently. A couple were shown round various apartments in Spain. Most of which had a communal pool. Throughout the programme the presenter pronounced communal as communeyall 😳

Mischievious grinds my gears. As do other words with extra letters, brought and prostrate come to mind.

I would like to point out that speaking in a regional accent are not wrong or dumbed down or badly educated. Don't equate them even in pedants corner.

Well, I don't think that obviously. But I'm not sure the BBC don't.

Have you heard of accents? I say gar-ijj and don't take kindly to people telling me that my accent is wrong, thanks.

@MrsJamin , I think @intrepidpanda was stating how she said it, not telling you that your accent is wrong.

Whoever told you using words incorrectly is acceptable as language evolves should of thought more carefully where that might lead.

Whoever told you using words incorrectly is acceptable as language evolves should of thought more carefully where that might lead.
Case in point.

Love it.

Gar-arj
Men-arj
Far-arj
Dam-age

One of my favourite misunderstood words was when a friend told me her sister had had an 'apoplectic pregnancy'!!

Pronunciation isn’t at fault. It is the missing out of a consonant sound that is. Secetary isn’t even phonetic. By the way, I asked my primary school teacher neighbour why is Phonetics not spelled with an F and she gave me so much fluff that I stuffed a cushion with it.

@MyTattooIsBetterThanYours , but pronunciation includes making sure the word sounds right. Seckitary doesn't include the sounds in the word secretary.

I used to work with posh lawyers. They referred to their secretary as “M’ sec’tree”.

Didn't she just say that English spellings are not standardised but that, in phonics, she teaches the children that the grapheme ph does in fact represent the sound at beginning of phonetics. What was the fluff?

What is the underlying point you were making to her? Do you think English should be standardised (like Japanese for example) such that there is only one way to write the sound at the beginning of "foam" and "phone"?

I hear secketary and I raise you cuttle-ery (cutlery) 🤦‍♀️

Not forgetting ath-a-lete.

Especially the ones who have meddled.

😁

Seen today ‘berried’. As in dead and..