Mispronounced words.

@izzythepush,

Imitations, not limitations, bloody spell check.

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Want to piss of someone from San Francisco? Just call it ‘Frisco.

Many words ending in "ile" are now pronounced in the English manner.

Rept'-l is now usually rep'-tile with a long "i", though I pronounce it the old way and get funny looks. Versatile, guided missile, and others are often pronounced with the long "I". Guided miss'-aisle. Sounds funny to me.

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@Ragman,

I don’t want to upset anyone, so I’ll call it Sanny Franny just to be on the safe side.

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@Joeblow,

Joeblow wrote:

Victuals = Vittles. I had no idea!

Timbre. I definitely do not say tam ber.

Clothes seems easy to me. Long o

Timbre, or tone color, is pronounced tamber. Timbre may be the British spelling of timber.

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@coluber2001,

I say them both pretty much the same way. It's only in context that anyone would discern a difference in meaning when I'm speaking. And I've always thought of timbre with respect to sound, not colour! I'm going to look it up Smile

Maybe another Canadian will come along to tell us how they say it.

I'm guessing that timbre and timber are seperate words in British English, too. I want to say I'm certain (!) But whatthehelldoiknow?

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@Joeblow,

You can listen to it on Webster's. I'd post a link for easy access but it's a pita with this phone. I don't hear tam ber. Lol. I don't! Anyone else?

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@Joeblow,

I think Columber was being ironic.

Over here timbre is pronounced tambruh.

Websters is an American dictionary with American pronunciations.

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I don't think I have ever written or spoken timbre in 78 years.

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Timbre or tone color can be described as the difference between the same note played on different instruments, faor instance, a middle C on a piano and a trombone.

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@coluber2001,

I use audio options in the dictionaries to confirm the pronunciation.

Hear the facade pronunciation different from as it spelt.

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@coluber2001,

I pronounce it as "plan tein"

what about the pronunciation of "facade" ?

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@izzythepush,

: )

Ah. I just found it on the Oxford website.

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@coluber2001,

Thank you! I'm really enjoying this thread.

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@izabella40,

Fass as in gas ‘ard as in rock.

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@izzythepush,

we say fuh-SOD...

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@Region Philbis,

That is very different.

It was one of the answers on Pointless yesterday, the category was words that can be spelled using just the letters of musical notes so A B C D E F & G.

I got the best answer surname of Jack, rebel leader during reign of Henry VI.

It’s Jack Cade who replies to one of Shakespeare’s best lines.

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.

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Thanks to the BBC now we know there is a better way--2 ways--of saying isn't it, idnit and innit. It hasn't caught on in the US yet, though.

A quick and to the point way to say 'isn't it'
"It sure is a nice day, idnit?

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@coluber2001,

Oop North they say in’t it.

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@coluber2001,

I’m not aware of hearing idnit at all.

Sorry.

Innit is more a London/Essex thing.

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