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Teach your hosts PLEASE!!!

shakay — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 22:49:20 GMT

The hosts on jewelry hours are becoming SOOOO horrid with pronunciation of the word "jewelry"!!!!

The word is jew-el-ry

It is NOT jew-LER-y

A "jeweler" is a PERSON who who works with "jewels"

Jewelry are items to be worn... JewELry

Teach your people to SOUND PROFESSIONAL, not uneducated!!!

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GSPgirl — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 23:04:20 GMT

Was there a jewelry show on today?

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Carmie — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:14:32 GMT

The hosts use the local slang pronunciation, I noticed a few others. Lori Grenier is famous for this. Should QVC correct a vendor?

Do you say cara-mel or car-mel, R or hour when you mean our? Example: That is R house

It doesn’t bother me at all. The English language is always evolving.

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luvmybeetle — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 23:36:39 GMT

There are different ways of speaking in all the different areas of our country.....my problem is when Valerie and some others say "look AT HOW" That is not correct grammer, she should just say "look how" and eliminate the AT. But, everyone speaks differently and there is nothing we can do.

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Love my grandkids — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 23:45:11 GMT

I cringe when I hear *anyone* say jew-el-ry. There is no such wordl The OP is 100% correct!

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Kachina624 — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:17:17 GMT

If everyone in the region pronounces it the same, then are they wrong or are you wrong?

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bonnielu — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 00:24:19 GMT

Regional dialects. Does not bother me at all. Used to be there was some sort of training to have people on air use a mid western dialect.

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makena — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 01:21:05 GMT

I wonder how you get over real-life problems.

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ValuSkr — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 02:31:48 GMT

I also cringe when I hear "jew-ler-y." The correct pronunciation follows the spelling. Do they know how to spell?

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santorini — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 04:04:57 GMT

That makes me cringe too. It's not ju-la-ree. It seems like some of the guests started saying it and maybe the hosts thought it was rude to say it the right way back at them, so they joined right in with the ju-la-ree references.

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RealtyGal2 — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:17:47 GMT

That does not bother me as much as the host that says "WOWSA", but I do agree that some of the slang could be eliminated. You don't hear Mary Beth, Jill, Jane, and the other more experienced hosts using slang.

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felixmom — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:53:08 GMT

Seriously? Mary Beth uses the phrase "I'll tell you what" constantly. Even the new hosts that she mentors use it from training with her.

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Caaareful Shopper — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:57:26 GMT

There are standard and non-standard pronunciations of words. Based on regional dialects and the evolution of words over time, different pronunciations are considered correct. You can look them up in Websters dictionary, all three below are accepted:

ˈjü-əl-rē

ˈjül-rē

ˈjü-lə-rē

So you may want to take a deep breath, everything will be all right.

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CalminHeart — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:02:30 GMT

@shakay wrote:
The hosts on jewelry hours are becoming SOOOO horrid with pronunciation of the word "jewelry"!!!!

The word is jew-el-ry

It is NOT jew-LER-y

A "jeweler" is a PERSON who who works with "jewels"

Jewelry are items to be worn... JewELry

Teach your people to SOUND PROFESSIONAL, not uneducated!!!

While I don't like it either, jewlery is a common pronunciation in several parts of the country. It doesn't mean they are uneducated or unprofessional. They just don't say it the way you say it. It's not worth the angst.

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shaggygirl — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 15:10:44 GMT

@felixmom wrote:
Seriously? Mary Beth uses the phrase "I'll tell you what" constantly. Even the new hosts that she mentors use it from training with her.

Do you mean "Here's the thing"?

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BirdieGal — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 16:13:17 GMT

Hope this thread doesn’t go Nuuk-Ya-Lur 😜

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Lilpuddin — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 16:14:31 GMT

😂 well played, madam!

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Johnnyeager — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:27:46 GMT

There are too many of dem jool shows!

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Gkhm — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:33:56 GMT

Also please tell them that there are ‘t’s in button and many other words!!!

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MoJoV — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 18:03:33 GMT

It's got, we've got....those phrases bug me. Sounds so dumb.