Speak correctly! aka Talk right!Ok, so I know people from different areas speak differently, but regional differences notwithstanding, there are a couple of things that drive me crazy, and after having heard the same mistakes come out of the mouths of native Texans, New Yorkers, Californians, Illinois - um - ites, and more, I don't think I can put them down to regional peculiarities.First, the word is jewelry. It's pronounced just like that, jewelry, as in, there's a jewel in there (there isn't always, but you take my meaning I hope). The word is not jewlery (which pronunciation, I suppose, using the same logic, would imply that there was a Jewish person in there. Haven't they been persecuted enough?). Stop saying it like that. Seriously. The first few times I heard this was from people with heavy New York accents, and I thought it was a funny little New York ism, but I'm hearing it more and more, and it begins to grate. This second one drives me nuts. * <----- What is this little thing (not the makeshift arrow, the thing it's pointing at)? That, my friends, is an asterisk. If you answered "asterick," take a moment to stick out your tongue and bite down, hard. I'm sorry, but it's the only way you'll learn. I went through a whole 3 hour class period once with the professor using the word, "asterick," a LOT. It was like this pressure gradually building up behind my eyes until by the end of class I just wanted to scream out a correction. Now whenever I hear it, I want to throttle the person. So, anyone else have their own pronunciation pet peeves, or is it just me? |
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