I'd like anyone here to email a linguist about the pronunciation of "Beta" - you won't believe me, so I'm tempted not to even bother, but it's pronounced "Bay-tuh." Sorry.
Pronunciation of double o's around here (NW England) gets on my nerves. They pronounce "oo" as "u" as in look, they say "luke", cook = "cuke", Book = "Buke"
Haha! Yeah, used to take the piss out of my mum for that using those same 3 words ("look in the book to see what to cook")!! - she's from up north. Don't think it's been mentioned, but round here words like 'few' and 'new' get pronounced 'foo' and 'noo'. And the bald/bold thing really annoys me - I know a whole family that pronounce it 'bold'...I always assumed there was a hint of cockney in their accent! [edit] not really mis-pronuncation, but I knew a family who used to refer to buicuits as 'wafers'!? Again, nothing to do with the topic, but can someone explain the deal with Grandma & Nan/Nanny? I refer to my mum's mum and my dad's mum and Grandma...some people I know use the name 'Nan' for both. And other folk have both a Grandma and a Nan.
Hi, I have never heard "nan" over here. You would have a grandma or a grammy or a nana. The titles are used to distinguish which grand mother you are discussing. Dads mom was nana. Moms mom was grammy. I have only known one grand father, he was called grampy which, by the way was my fathers father. Would not fafa make more sense . I live in a region where the dialect changes every 50 miles. The lack of pronounciation of the letter R is predominant. I can travel anywhere in North America and people can almost tell immediatly where I am from. (Boston). Car-cah lobster-lobsta chowder-chowda harvard-hahvid Just about any word with the letter R is butchered. (butch-id). Oh, for those of you from England, Gloucester=gloss-ta Manchester= man-chesta Regards, Slappy
That gets me. If I could care less im still careing more than the least amount of sh*t I can give, if I couldn't care less there isn't sh*t left to give. Blah. What about people that speel things phonetically that can't spell them I think that is what I did butchering that word? Maybe? What about boo-tay --- booty I thought It was funny I live in irvine search the bubble on myspace you might find it.
agreed also ASUS saying their company name is pronounced ayesooos, i like asus. saying a (the letter) and then sus and sounding like us with an s at the beginning.
Actually, the Greek letter beta is pronounced "veeta" in modern Greek. As for SQL, the "official" ANSI pronunciation is ess-kew-ell, but most DBAs I know (along with most Oracle staff) pronounce it sequel. It also varies between products: Microsoft's database server is known as "sequel server", the open source database is known as "my ess kew ell" Pronunciatoin is one of those things that nobody is ever going to agree on - not only does it vary widely from country to country, it also varies from dialect to dialect and region to region. So I guess we're all going to have to agree to disagree.
Says the American. In fact, what gets me is that you SHOULD be saying "Beetah" since the merkians say their vowels and the british just blend them into their words. Noone in Britain actually says "Bettah" though, thankfully. Bay-tah just sounds far too american. Fibble's got it right and the British, are as usual, closer to the mark of our European counterparts. Couldn't: Could Not. Could NOT care less. You are NOT caring, any less, as in, there is nothing less left that you could care to give. I had a nana, not a nan. She was my other Grandma. The way merkians say aluminium irritates me, but some use alumina in replacement for aluminium instead of aluminium oxide is also worth having an tantrum-epileptic fit over. The worst and I mean WORST thing you can do EVER and Im not joking I literally find it hard containing myself over is people writing ph's as f's. Like sulphur. I make myself shut up when someone has the audacity to try and correct me on that.
I normally eat my na(a)n. With curry. I have an english Grandma, we used to call her "manya" for some reason, my French Grandma we call Mamita, the meaning is lost to me personally.
Yeah its strange my best mate calls them "nan" breads. Nan like the meaning for Grandmother. Its not nan but as doug says Na(a)n or Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan bread.
The whole bread situation isn't a biggie in this area though, our curry guy knows what we have anyway.
The fact that you have a "curry guy" tickles me That's a quality friend to have if you ever go to manchester. Some people say "curr-ay" rather than "curr-ee" which incites a humoured feeling deep within, but it doesn't present itself to be a situation so to speak.
you know what gets me? people who use superfluous apostrophes. but seriously. plurals do not need an apostrophe. here begins basic apostrophe grammar: it's TVs, not TV's. Is there any missing letter there? no. that's what an apostrophe is for! more examples. '90s. not 90's. notice, the apostrophe is taking the palce of the missing 19. there is nothing missing between the 90 and the s, hence no apostrophe! ours. not our's. there are also fundamental difference between the following words (not word's, you'll notice): your and you're and some more i cba to think of right now. here ends basic apostrophe grammar. and if anyone cares to rib me about my lack of capitalisation, here's a preemptive shrugging of shoulders.
With the apostrophes, you're also missing possessive. For instance when someone uses my name they say things like: "Douglas' job is going well". Since it should be "Douglass job is going well", but doubles 's' suck And Bindi, my curry guy runs the curry restaurant next to my parents house, he was best in the region a couple of years ago and hasn't entered since as he find judges annoying.
Sorry Bindi, but I'm going to have to do it. Since 1990 the official IUPAC spelling has been Sulfur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur#Spelling
How very, erm, peculiar. Since all text books we used on chemistry post 1990 and 1992 have got the "ph" spelling.
Had to read that a couple of times, thought you were saying that your grandma was called "Marmite". eewwwww I'm also a stickler for apostrophes in the right places ("Eats, shoots and leaves" is one of my favourite books). It really annoys me when I drive past greengrocers advertising "potato's" for sale. Potato's whats, FFS? It seems a lot of people use apostrophes as a form of decoration rather than diacritical marks... One of my other bugbears (and I have oh so many ) is Americanisms like "me either" and "could care less". I also detest turning nouns into verbs: I have worked in the IT industry for almost 15 years, it seems that IT people aren't happy with the normal crop of verbs such that they feel the need to invent new ones, like "to architect". To architect? There's already a perfectly good verb to describe that action: it's "build", why do we need a new one? Rant over.
