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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #60 on: March 15, 2012, 04:15:27 am »

And no it doesn't greak me out because I don't know what that means.

why i have no idea what your talking about...  :-X
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #61 on: March 15, 2012, 07:40:20 am »

I can't pronounce 'humanities'.

It comes out as 'Humanuttees'.

Embarrassing to the Nth, especially around friends who have accents of their own, they fall about laughing at my 'ocker accent'.

(my accent is more 'slightly english, slightly european aussie'... I believe it's referred to as Educated Australian, like how Stephen Fry has 'Educated English.)

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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #62 on: March 15, 2012, 08:23:37 am »

I can't pronounce 'humanities'.

It comes out as 'Humanuttees'.

Embarrassing to the Nth, especially around friends who have accents of their own, they fall about laughing at my 'ocker accent'.

(my accent is more 'slightly english, slightly european aussie'... I believe it's referred to as Educated Australian, like how Stephen Fry has 'Educated English.)

I'm pretty sure that's how humanities is pronounced in a reasonable Australian accent. I've not heard much different anywhere.

You're definitely more in the clear than my Algorithmics lecturer, who without fail pronounces it 'algarivvum'
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #63 on: March 15, 2012, 10:51:25 am »

You should see the teachers at the local high school when they're teaching shakespeare.

"Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for ROZ-lin"

Yeah, apparently no one in the class ever thought that there was RHYMING in Shakespeare's prose.

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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #64 on: March 15, 2012, 03:01:38 pm »

You should see the teachers at the local high school when they're teaching shakespeare.

"Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for ROZ-lin"

Yeah, apparently no one in the class ever thought that there was RHYMING in Shakespeare's prose.

you know that thing people do where they pinch there nose and sigh in an exasperated way? i would do that in that situation.
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #65 on: March 15, 2012, 03:35:17 pm »

You should see the teachers at the local high school when they're teaching shakespeare.

"Jesu Maria, what a deal of brine
Hath wash'd thy sallow cheeks for ROZ-lin"

Yeah, apparently no one in the class ever thought that there was RHYMING in Shakespeare's prose.

you know that thing people do where they pinch there nose and sigh in an exasperated way? i would do that in that situation.

your mean facepalming?

anyway 'Dungeon' looks like an age of manure Dung-eon vs. Dun-geon.
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Re: Words you just can't seem to spell/pronounce right.
« Reply #66 on: March 15, 2012, 03:39:46 pm »

You could call them donjons, as I am sometimes fond of doing. Although a French person would question your knowledge of the meaning of that word.
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