by snowbird 130 Replies latest jw friends
I used to mispronounce melancholy. I'd only ever read it, and never heard it.
So in my head it was:
mel- ank - olee
Until one day I said it out loud and my then sixteen year old sister (fifteen years younger than me) started LHAO! Thankfully, I can laugh at myself.
Tammy
I once heard an anchorwoman mispronounce emeritus - she said em-me-right-us!
A congresswoman from Texas mispronounced vilified - vy-li-fied.
Truth.
Syl
melancholy
That word has bad memories for me. When I was in Grade 7, it showed up on a spelling test and I knew how to spell and pronounce it, because I could play "Melancholy Baby" on the piano.
When I said the word out loud, the teacher (who hated JW's, BTW) laughed and made fun of me in front of everybody, because she said it was pronounced :
Ma lan' chilly
I always wonder if she ever figured out that she was the one pronouncing it wrong.......
Whores devours is hilarious!! People must have raised their eyebrows when you said that. It's good that we can laugh at ourselves!
Alot = a lot
I do not have a lot of money.
Allot = distribute or apportion
CoCo
Rhymes with fur in my neck of the woods.
I, too, have heard it pronounced "air."
Hate it!
Syl
Definately - DEFINITELY!!!!!!!
Thanks.
Syl
These are not grievous mistakes, just annoying sometimes.
pronounced gre-vus not gree-ve-us
Yes, amen, Gregor.
In my old cong, a lady always pronounced flesh, flush.
Drove me crazy!
Syl
Mischievous is pronounced mis-cha-vas not mis-chee-vee-as.
