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Feb 27, 2020
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slappy
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I guess my point is Chile seems to get special treatment from Americans, but other countries/cities don't. If you
wouldn't pronounce Barcelona as Barthelona, then why would you try to pronounce Chile with an accent? I guess just be consistent.
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Are there any words you insist are pronounced wrong by everyone else?
frontrowcougar
2/27/20 10:29am
Chile, the country. If you are going to claim it should be Chee-lay, then you better be consistent and
slappy
2/27/20 10:32am
Haha RMs always do that. The best is when Chileans pronounce it anglicized, but
coug almighty
2/27/20 10:37am
Is it not okay then to say Uruguay as OO-du-gwhy rather than your-a-gway?
zerigke
2/27/20 10:42am
I guess my point is Chile seems to get special treatment from Americans, but other countries/cities don't. If you
slappy
2/27/20 10:47am
Well if you want to pronounce Melbourne the way the Aussie's do it...
CoachSpeak
2/27/20 10:54am
We should all revolt and call it how it is spelled
BigYfan
2/27/20 11:00am
The soft C and Z make the THs sound not the S
BigYfan
2/27/20 10:58am
Reminds me of the Never Stop Never Stopping bit about Connor's trip to Spain
slappy
2/27/20 11:01am
Thpain? Is it spelled Zpain or Cpain? Credibility lost. It's not hard to
TailgateU
2/27/20 11:07am
Please disclose where you served you mission.
slappy
2/27/20 11:13am
Washington. However, I knew how to pronounce Chile when I was 10.
TailgateU
2/27/20 12:09pm
Fair enough. I learned to say Chile in a Glaswegian accent, along with many other words. I was constantly
slappy
2/27/20 12:45pm
My great great great grandfather emigrated from scotland
ColonelMustard
2/27/20 6:01pm
For me it's simply preference.
Jamesiator
2/27/20 3:30pm
It's Chee-LEH not "lay". This is why americans are horrible foreign speakers
chazen
2/27/20 4:25pm
Boooo. Happon, Rassiya, and heaven only knows how you say China!
coug almighty
2/27/20 4:34pm
So you make an effort to correctly pronounce Chile like a local. But you likely make no attempt to correctly
slappy
2/27/20 5:06pm
People said Chipotle as "Chi-polt-tay". It's correctly said "chi-pote-lay" people.
RdF3
2/27/20 10:32am
This is a running joke in our house
buffgato
2/27/20 10:39am
Chi-pot-tel
Hinta
2/27/20 10:41am
Lots of words are pronounced differently depending on the conjugation
Spocougar
2/27/20 10:32am
you will love this then...
oryguncoug
2/27/20 10:33am
Not the first time I've seen some random youtube video be wrong!
frontrowcougar
2/27/20 10:39am
Comfterble. Drives me nuts.
Tokolosh
2/27/20 10:33am
Yeah, that is a weird one, but if you sound out com-for-table, you sound British
fredgarvin
2/27/20 10:35am
Reminds me of what a pirate once said when he walked into my bar
4th and Niner
2/27/20 10:39am
Tremonton. It’s Treh-mun-tun
Alister Mackenzie
2/27/20 10:34am
Clothes, people pronounce it as "close"
CoachSpeak
2/27/20 10:35am
A soft 'th' before another constant, seems pretty ticky-tac.
coug almighty
2/27/20 10:40am
That doesn't change the fact it is being pronounced incorrectly...
CoachSpeak
2/27/20 10:44am
But it does mean that the mis-pronunciation is hardly detectible.
coug almighty
2/27/20 10:54am
Well keep saying it incorrectly then.
CoachSpeak
2/27/20 10:55am
Haha I actually dont. Recently, I was explaining non-native english speakers how
coug almighty
2/27/20 11:16am
Alzheimers, if I spelled correct.
Count Cougar
2/27/20 10:35am
Werewolf. Everyone on earth except for me says it wrong. It should be
Jay Rick
2/27/20 10:36am
RE: Are there any words you insist are pronounced wrong by everyone else?
BigTex
2/27/20 10:36am
Ensign. “Ensun” is just fine.
Florwood
2/27/20 10:37am
GIF, but I'm learning to accept it.
Belboz
2/27/20 10:39am
RE: GIF, but I'm learning to accept it.
Gustav
2/27/20 10:46am
Another that gets me is Jew-ler-ee. NOOOOOOOO!
frontrowcougar
2/27/20 10:40am
That's the Brits' fault. In British English, they spell it jewellery. Not sure
fredgarvin
2/27/20 10:48am
I say cu-MU-la-tive instead of CU-mu-la-tive.
Cougarrr
2/27/20 10:41am
I sometimes pronounce the "L" in yolk or folk. I don't do it with walk or talk.
Cougarrr
2/27/20 10:42am
You HAVE to do it with caulk
StutterOfTheCougar
2/27/20 11:59am
Sauna is SOW-na not SAW-na
finnish_blue
2/27/20 10:43am
Sherbet. Only one "r" in there, unless you are from Wyoming
willkie40
2/27/20 10:47am
I had no idea I was doing this. Guilty as charged.
slappy
2/27/20 10:49am
So annoying when people say sherbert.
Mr. Belding
2/27/20 10:52am
Mount’n, as opposed to Moun-ten. Mount’n is correct.
Philosoraptor
2/27/20 10:53am
What about the Utah special: Mouw'-in
frontrowcougar
2/27/20 10:58am
That's not a thing
cougarnerd
2/27/20 11:02am
Here's an article on it:
frontrowcougar
2/27/20 11:08am
Unfortunately it is.
CoachSpeak
2/27/20 11:15am
My wife says ree-lator... instead of realtor.
BYUCPA
2/27/20 10:57am
Like rhymes with Skeletor?
finnish_blue
2/27/20 11:04am
The word Often should be pronounced "of'en". The T is silent.
zerigke
2/27/20 10:57am
Library as "libary" or nuclear as "nucular"
oryguncoug
2/27/20 11:07am
I had a student teacher at BYU who said SUCcesses. Like this class SUCKSesses.
deejo
2/27/20 11:07am
"I says" drives me nuts. It just screams hick and uneducated.
zerigke
2/27/20 11:10am
or "I seen". And another utah special, "we won them" or "I won you" instead of "we beat them" or "I beat you" at a game
indocoug
2/27/20 11:20am
Coupon - is it ku-pon or que-pon? I prefer ku-pon ...
stirmac
2/27/20 11:16am
crêpe...the little hat thingy makes it sound like strep, not drape.
BlooGeek
2/27/20 11:22am
Micromanagement should be 'microgement'
m0resn0w
2/27/20 11:55am
Ex-specially instead of Es-pecially
m0resn0w
2/27/20 11:56am
Contrite, as in broken heart and contrite spirit
atlcougar
2/27/20 2:36pm
I feel exactly the same way
frontrowcougar
2/27/20 5:08pm
I never noticed this. Thinking about it, I do it, too. I'll be the change!
Blue Mountains
2/27/20 5:28pm
It's a weird Mormon thing with that phrase. Don't know the origin
atlcougar
2/27/20 6:10pm
Rural. My brother says it roo-rul.
Schultz is back
2/27/20 3:36pm
“The”
Gerald-DeGroot
2/27/20 5:28pm
The Masseter muscle is always pronounced wrong!
Zoobieman
2/28/20 5:25pm
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