Common pronunciation mistakes

• chronicles

  22 Jun 05, 14:26

  People pronouce
  
  proNUNciation as proNOUNciation
  
  Almond(ar-men) as AL-men
  
  Salmon(Sa-men) as semen, sell-men or worst sell-mon
  
  Fillet(fee-lerd) as fee-ley
  
  Wednesday(Whens-day) as WHEN-NURSE-DAY
  
  Nonchalant(Non-sure-lan)(The way you pronouce lan in lan jiao) as Non-CHA-lan(pronouce CHA as they would pronouce cha in bur bur cha cha)
• FireIce

  22 Jun 05, 14:27

  refer to http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=124291
• chronicles

  22 Jun 05, 14:29

  Yours only covers one word but mine covers a few
• dragg

  22 Jun 05, 14:32

  the worst i heard was w - should be pronounced as double u. but most say tark bew.
  
  
• dragg

  22 Jun 05, 14:46

  i once worked in a company offering plastics pipes and fittings.
  
  a customer called and asked for an onion. he actually requires a union. my colleague tactlessly advised her to go to the wet market.
  
  
• chronicles

  23 Jun 05, 20:17

  Originally posted by dragg:

  i once worked in a company offering plastics pipes and fittings.
  
  a customer called and asked for an onion. he actually requires a union. my colleague tactlessly advised her to go to the wet market.
  
  

  he had a sex change under a few second?
• dragg

  23 Jun 05, 20:20

  Originally posted by chronicles:

  he had a sex change under a few second?

  wow. you are really going for typo or grammatical errors!!
  
  
• mercurialz

  23 Jun 05, 20:25

  
  juz a couple more:
  
  debt (dat) as debt with the "b"
  menu (man-new) as "mer-nu" or worse manure...
  
  lol...
  
  
• vito_corleone

  23 Jun 05, 23:58

  " fee lay" is the french pronounciation
• the.raven

  24 Jun 05, 00:46

  Originally posted by vito_corleone:

  " fee lay" is the french pronounciation

  filet de poisson
• dragg

  24 Jun 05, 09:22

  Originally posted by vito_corleone:

  " fee lay" is the french pronounciation

  should pronounce as fee lerd.
  
  
• vito_corleone

  24 Jun 05, 09:25

  Originally posted by dragg:

  should pronounce as fee lerd.
  
  

  je croix vous ne comprenez pas "fee lerd" is how them aussies pronounce it. yankees pronounce it as "fer lay" with a silent r. the brits pronounce it as " fer lert" both with silent "r"s.
• snowmaiden

  24 Jun 05, 10:36

  also words like:
  
  confidante (confi-dunt) as confident
  continue (kern-tinue) as cON-tinue
  edge (ad-j) as age
  mocha (mo-ka) as mo-cha
  grasp (gra-sp) as grap-s
  their (th-air) as the-ar
  market (mar-kert) as mar-kate
  
  
• flyme2moon

  24 Jun 05, 12:48

  My Eng teacher in Pri Sch taught us "their" = "there",
  but I always hear ppl say "di-ar"
  -_-lll
  
  And Lounge becum Launch... sigh
• FireIce

  24 Jun 05, 13:36

  lingerie
  ensemble
  encore
  pinot noir
  merlot
  pilates