Lovely and abandoned words

[Vespertilio91]

You should see the strange looks we get when we say al-you-min-e-um in front of Americans (we spell it aluminium)

Now I'm gonna go around saying al-you-min-e-um. It sounds so much better than al-u-min-um-in-num-in-num-in-num.

 

[Poppy1]

Now I'm gonna go around saying al-you-min-e-um. It sounds so much better than al-u-min-um-in-num-in-num-in-num.

lol Vesper. My sons say it the American way along with words like duel. We say it jewel, they laugh at me and say no it's dool. I blame it on TV

 

[StillILearn]

What about joolery?

 

[Poppy1]

lol Still. Jewelery is said just like that- joolery. But you say tom-eh-toe, we say tom-ah-toe, lets call the whole thing off (I'd put little crochets and semi-quavers there if they had them on the key-board)

 

[direstraits]

I thought he was being Capt Underpants Is is winter over in KL, ds?

Ah, a short leave of absence and I miss all the praises! Yay!

I was a batnana before, so I figured I'd become a superbanana, after a spell of being a geishanana.

No, poppy, it's not winter, unfortunately. It's bloody hot these days, and if the aircon isn't working around in the office, everybody's bloody cranky.

Hehe... we still try to pronounce either as 'ai-ther'. However, the only part that tears me in two is the word 'router'. In the IT business, the router is 'raow-ter' instead of 'roo-ter'. I've always thought 'raow-ter' is the American way of pronouncing it. But nobody, neither american nor english colleagues I've worked with ever pronounced 'roo-ter'.

ds

 

[StillILearn]

You obviously never got your kicks on Route 66.

 

[direstraits]

Nope. Is it something a young whipper snapper like me can understand, though?

 

[Vespertilio91]

I blame it on TV

Blame TV for everything. I do. It works.

I love all these alternate pronunciations. They're awesome.

 

[beer good]

Reminds me of an old skit on the British comedy series Not The Nine O'Clock News, where the cast were singing a parody of a country song with the worst American accents you'd ever hear.

- I believe that lever [leever] is pronounced "levver"
- And the best film ever made is Saturday Night Fevver!

 

[sirmyk]

Shuttlecock.

 

[StillILearn]

Poppycock.

 

[StillILearn]

Nope. Is it something a young whipper snapper like me can understand, though?

clicky

 

[raffaellabella]

Here's one: Raffish

 

[graydaisy]

i use the word "aye" sometimes instead of yes (of course, it depends on who I am speaking to.) Every once in a while, much to my boyfriend's displeasure, I will say "ayuh".

also, i have several female pets and sometimes when i talk to them i call them "lassie" in an irish accent.
my cat-"Is that dinner I smell?"
me-"Aye, 'tis lassie!"

what? your cat doesn't talk to you?

 

[raffaellabella]

I thought only my cats spoke! I can't understand them because Tiberius speaks Latin, Sacha speaks Russian, and Toulouse speaks French.

Another good word is "fastidious". I've been called fastiodoso all while growing up but have never heard it used in English.

 

[Mattyj]

collywobbles and amok
I try to use them both whenever possible

 

[Wabbit]

Collywobbles????!!!

What the hell does that mean? I love it Just as soon as I know what it means I shall throw it into conversation with reckless abandon!

 

[Mattyj]

It means having a tummyache
I found it one day in an old dictionary and have used it whenever possible ever since!

 

[Wabbit]

It's brilliant! It's my mission to use it and spread the word!

 

[grit]

Reading Henry Miller's Black Spring and he used...

addlepated.

(having a muddled mind)