topic Re: Pronunciation pet peeve in Q Talk

Pronunciation pet peeve

baglady9 — Sat, 17 Sep 2022 18:56:20 GMT

I love all of the hosts but someone has to get after the lack of correct pronunciation on basic words. For example the word PATTERN. It drives me nuts when they say PATTERIN.

9/17 edit- for all of those who thought my post was not worth my time there are 3 pages of responses. Lol

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

spumoni99 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 02:38:26 GMT

Our country has many colloquilisms, why get upset over that?

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

Kachina624 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 03:58:38 GMT

@baglady9 Save your angst for something important. It does no good to rant about host pronunciations as nothing is going to change.

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

dollgal — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 04:11:35 GMT

I agree with the OP. I hate it when people drop their t’s and pronounce cotten as couin or button as bouin. They don’t need to pronounce with a hard T sound but to forgo the T altogether sounds uneducated. Ok everyone, pile on.

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

turtle52 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:03:11 GMT

How about "cawed" instead of "called" and "go head" instead of "go ahead".

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

Mombo1 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:52:12 GMT

@dollgal wrote:
I agree with the OP. I hate it when people drop their t’s and pronounce cotten as couin or button as bouin. They don’t need to pronounce with a hard T sound but to forgo the T altogether sounds uneducated. Ok everyone, pile on.

@dollgal I agree... I have more of a problem with the poor grammar. "Him and I"...

"Should have went"...

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

CalminHeart — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:33:44 GMT

I can go 2 hours south and hear a whole different pronunciation of many words. It is what it is. You can't do anything about it so don't let it take up space in your head.

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

millieshops — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:44:02 GMT

My guess would be that the speaker has never had any one even comment to them about their pronunciation. Even the, if that's the pronunciation they have heard and used for years, changing would require constant focus.

Where is constant correctness in language a requirement? Definitely not here on these Forums where we all, me included, have a chance to edit before we post, and I still see lapses every day. I see them, but the only ones I actually care about are those I make myself.

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

Harpa — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:50:08 GMT

How about fo-ward for forward?

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MaverDaver — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 11:53:38 GMT

and then there's 'aksd' instead of 'asked'

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

Group 5 minus 1 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:46:21 GMT

So much of that is regional. Words I can think of are: bagel, roof.

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Caaareful Shopper — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:04:02 GMT

@baglady9 wrote:
I love all of the hosts but someone has to get after the lack of correct pronunciation on basic words. For example the word PATTERN. It drives me nuts when they say PATTERIN.

@baglady9 I don't know where it originated -- that pronunciation of PATTERN where some make the N its own separate syllable -- but it's nothing new. Just do an internet search and this has been heard for decades.

There are different words with this same thing happening. Why? I have no idea. Perhaps it's regional.

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

Imaoldhippie — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 13:13:02 GMT

I have lived many, many years without a second thought about word pronunciation. I am not concerned about it now either.

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

Litlbitcountry — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 14:55:36 GMT

How about Amy's thur, instead of their!

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Magicrat — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:44:57 GMT

Saying words that begin with st, such as straight, sounding like scccrrraight. Like they have a mouthful of saliva.

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

mb141312 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:07:51 GMT

I can usually ignore regional or colloquial pronunciations. But what drives me nuts is when someone who is supposed to "know" or be an expert about something mispronounces words that apply to that topic. I've heard Q hosts who are presenting an item mispronounce words relating to the description of that item or some of the oddball color names used in fashion. It makes the host seem unprepared. The other instance that annoys me is when chefs mispronounce ingredients, such as saying "tumeric" instead of "tuRmeric".

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

Harpa — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:34:17 GMT

Some of us are educators, and therefore, we do concern ourselves. Mispronunciation is not necessarily a pet peeve for me, just that I do know better, and so make a correction when called for. Hopefully, someone else (and they already have!) can correct me.

No, not regional slang or drawing out vowels, or anything like that.

There's been a push lately (it seems) that the pronunciation of towns and places have accepted changes, too.

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

Cat lover 1731 — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 16:43:50 GMT

I know exactly who you are talking about. I can't watch her presentations because of that.

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

mnmom — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:17:15 GMT

"Joolery" instead of jewelry.

Re: Pronunciation pet peeve

JobGirl — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:23:32 GMT

Where is constant correctness in language a requirement?

Actually there are many places of business that require proper grammar, pronunciation and accurate spelling. Yes -every day, all the time.