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Daddy

February 02, 2009, 09:36:00 AM #90
Quote from: YPR on February 02, 2009, 09:17:23 AM
According to my floormates, "errand" is not pronounced "air-rend"

I'm sticking to it though baddood;
eh-rend, bitch.

*eh as in a short e not long a.

Tomboh

February 02, 2009, 12:34:44 PM #91
some idort in my geography class pronounces "nazi" with a long "a" sound in the first syllable

Nyerp

February 02, 2009, 12:40:12 PM #92
Quote from: Raekewn on February 02, 2009, 09:36:00 AM
eh-rend, bitch.

*eh as in a short e not long a.


you're weird

Daddy

February 02, 2009, 12:47:21 PM #93

Nyerp

February 02, 2009, 12:49:56 PM #94
Quote from: Raekewn on February 02, 2009, 12:47:21 PM
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/errand
I have Merriam Webster on my side, southerner.  baddood;


that's not what i heard in the pronunciation clip goowan

Feynman

February 02, 2009, 01:21:34 PM #95
Quote from: Tomboh on February 02, 2009, 12:34:44 PM
some idort in my geography class pronounces "nazi" with a long "a" sound in the first syllable


I pronounce it as "Nah-zee."

Nyerp

February 02, 2009, 01:24:03 PM #96
Quote from: Bassir on February 02, 2009, 01:21:34 PM
I pronounce it as "Nah-zee."


You're an idiot. psyduck;

Feynman

February 02, 2009, 01:28:06 PM #97
Quote from: Nyerp on February 02, 2009, 01:24:03 PM
You're an idiot. psyduck;


I was just kidding I only did that one or twice in Global class and quickly corrected myself.

I don't have any accent, but I can pull off a New York accent.

Daddy

February 02, 2009, 02:08:18 PM #98
Quote from: Nyerp on February 02, 2009, 12:49:56 PM
that's not what i heard in the pronunciation clip goowan
it's def not air

Kalahari Inkantation

February 02, 2009, 02:10:07 PM #99
i knew a chick who said "care" ("i don't care") like "kia" ("i don't kia")

befuddlement

YPrrrr

February 02, 2009, 03:45:56 PM #100
Quote from: Raekewn on February 02, 2009, 12:47:21 PM
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/errand
I have Merriam Webster on my side, southerner.  baddood;
He says air-rand baddood;

Never ask someone from Massachusetts how to pronounce words with "r"s

ME##

February 02, 2009, 03:52:03 PM #101
Silly question, but, has anyone else ever heard somebody pronounce the word lawyer as 'law-yer'?  Some kid at school kept pronouncing it like that and it bugged me for some reason.  doodhuh;

Thyme

February 02, 2009, 03:57:32 PM #102
Quote from: Parrot Pancake on February 02, 2009, 03:52:03 PM
Silly question, but, has anyone else ever heard somebody pronounce the word lawyer as 'law-yer'?  Some kid at school kept pronouncing it like that and it bugged me for some reason.  doodhuh;


I'm not sure if you wrote the phonetics like what you really have in mind, but that's how I pronounce it. goonish

ME##

February 02, 2009, 04:09:20 PM #103
Quote from: Thyme on February 02, 2009, 03:57:32 PM
I'm not sure if you wrote the phonetics like what you really have in mind, but that's how I pronounce it. goonish

ˈlȯ-yÉâ,,¢r

would be that way's phonetics, i've always heard it pronounced like ˈlȯi-Éâ,,¢r before.

Thyme

February 02, 2009, 04:11:41 PM #104
I have no idea how to decode that, David. maps;
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