Does it piss you off when people pronounce "jewelry" wrong?

NewsFlash wrote:

not as much as the word Realtor. When it's pronounced relator that pissed me off.

So it would probably really annoy you that N.A.R. (National Association of Realtors) is running a TV and radio ad campaign where the lady doing the commercial says "Realator"

OldManRunner wrote:

What pisses me off is when people say "Warshington" instead of "Washington"...growing up near D.C. you would hear it ALL the time

In the same neck of the (MD)woods: "Hey hon, I just changed the "earl" in mah car after I "warshed" it and now I'm gonna go drive to "kwar" practice at the church downeeocean.

It's never the native Washingtonians who use the word "warsh".

linguist wrote:

well then I guess it should also make you pissed off when people say [wens day] instead of [wed- nes- day] or [clim] instead of [climb]. Some words are just not pronounced as they are written. Other words, due to an assimilation of articulatory features change over time to make the word easier to pronounce.

No, it doesn't, because these are two different types of situations.

How about people from New Jersey saying youse guys? And even worse, locals saying Baltermere and people in Louisville saying Louieville?

Don't sweat the little stuff.

My Left Nut wrote:

How about people from New Jersey saying youse guys? And even worse, locals saying Baltermere and people in Louisville saying Louieville?

Don't sweat the little stuff.

People from New Jersey don't actually say youse. Just so you know.

Your title needs amending:

"Does it piss you off when people pronounce "jewelry" wrong?"

This suggests that they pronounce "jewelry" as "wrong" - clearly ridiculous. You should have used an adverb such as "incorrectly".

People in Balmer do. "How you's like your aiggs, hon?"

p.n. wrote:

No, it can be either.

"Forte," meaning "loudly," is from the Italian and accordingly is pronounced with two syllables.

Forte means strong.

My pet peeve is "Febuary" instead of "February". My wife also likes to say Wednesdee or Tuesdee. Drives me nuts, but she grew up in Spokane so I have to cut her some slack.

Mrs. Masterbooner wrote:

In the same neck of the (MD)woods: "Hey hon, I just changed the "earl" in mah car after I "warshed" it and now I'm gonna go drive to "kwar" practice at the church downeeocean.

It's never the native Washingtonians who use the word "warsh".

Not sure where you are/were, but this is very true on the Eastern Shore of MD. When we lived there, my wife and I--transplanted northerners--would occasionally have trouble understanding what the locals were saying. Not all the locals of course (I'm thinking mainly of guys that worked on my lawn mower, painted my house, etc.) but enough of them to make an impression.

look it up next time wrote:

p.n. wrote:

No, it can be either.

"Forte," meaning "loudly," is from the Italian and accordingly is pronounced with two syllables.

Forte means strong.

Well, of course you're right! It can translate as "strong" and, depending on the context, at least 30 other English words.

However, I think most American English speakers learn the Italian word "forte" (pronounced with two syllables) from its appearance in music, where it usually means "loud."

Your point (that it can have multiple English translations) is well taken. *My* point was the need to distinguish between the Italian "forte"--two syllables--and the French "forte"--one syllable.

What about the word milk...some people pronounce it "meh-lk".

Yes, the Eastern Shore's the same as southern MD, Baltimore, Hagerstown...pretty much any rural MD area. The best is the 7th District of MD (in St. Mary's Co.) and Tangier Island. I've heard it's related to Cornwall English. I haven't heard it enough to replicate it, but it really sounds like the white man's ebonics.

If you say Wednesday right, it should come out sounding like Wensday, or with a slight pronunciation of the 'd' as in wed-n's-day. Kind of like "weddin's day" except no 'i'. You kind of blend the d and the n together.

I'm also pretty sure Favre is pronounced F-ah-ff or F-ah-fuh. I'm not sure, but I don't think it's pronounced farv.

I know people who pronounce sugar "shuh-ger" and other people who pronounce it "shih-ger".

Where is the "i" in sugar?

People who pronounce "crayon" as "cran"

"nuclear" as "NEW-kill-ER" is pretty bad, too.

Typical American bastardisation of the English language. The word is 'jewellery', but as seems to be the case with too many words these days, that's apparently too complex for the good ol' US of A, so they simplified it.

So that's why people pronounce the -ery bit at the end. They're right, you're not - sorry

bucky done gun wrote:

Typical American bastardisation of the English language. The word is 'jewellery', but as seems to be the case with too many words these days, that's apparently too complex for the good ol' US of A, so they simplified it.

So that's why people pronounce the -ery bit at the end. They're right, you're not - sorry

No, I'm sorry, but you pronounce the word as it's currently spelled, not how it used to or should be spelled.

It IS spelled that way. Not 'should be' or 'used to be'.