You are correct that the word is often mistakenly given a Latin origin. In fact the word is Latinized from a Greek origin; therefore octopodes, while rare, is technically the correct plural form. Pedant, indeed. -monkey
I love me some Fa jee tas Blane Blade (amount many others) is one I keep saying and it annoys they hell out of me
*Hangs head in shame.* I think I should have quadruple-checked that post as I was afraid of that happening. The fact my mother is a proofreader makes that even worse. RwD *edit* Taking notice of Gravemind123! *edit*
I think you should have checked that also, as you forgot to capitalize your I. I'm sure I made at least one spelling or grammar mistake in this post.
Just had some fun reading through all this. But I couldn't care less, I'm Spanish. Here we pronounce every letter the same way no matter what word it comes in. The problem with that comes when you get words in english and you try to pronounce all the letters. Half way through the word you realise it's in english, so you reposition your mouth and start again changing your accent. Here you have a text-to-speech site with different accents and different languages. BTW ibiza should sound sort of like ee - be - zha, and when you say the zha you should be biting the tip of your tongue. Hope that helps.
And, as a proof-reader, your mother will tell you that it is virtually impossible to proof-read your own work.
It is, yes... but a lot of pronunciation things in this thread are accent things (well, some of them...) the thing is - there are a boatload of people here that can speak proper english (i guess noone except for SOME english can say their english is accent free), but these people talk about elections as "erektshuns" and about "sir" as "seh"... i just don't understand why the young people (i'd understand if it was the older ones) can't lear proper english in schools... it makes us look like goons.
Was anyone watching the BBC Ten o'clock news last night what we had a gigabyte pronounced as guy-ga-byte?
Yup, I caught that one too. From the BBC's supposed security expert, so he should have known better really.
ive heard "inner-net" instead of "inter-Net" so many times from these idiots in my highschool soo many times. makes me wonder why i like in NYC sometimes.
"often" THE "T" IS F'N SILENT! fyi at sony's E3 press conference the presenter guy did this and some other things that where less than profesional, nonetheless they did have the most interesting one and MS's was just so stupid sounding, could they talk slower? Why not just use Gates, he's entertaining to listen too.
