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The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

icyfroth — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 06:03:05 GMT

Here's something to liven the CS forum up a bit. Got to admit it has been a bit boring lately.

FEBRUARY is the most mispronounced month. And that's fair enough: the linguistics are a mess.

As Akira Okrent from MentalFloss.com points out, February is just one of a litany of words where many people blatantly ignore the spelling and pronounce it the way they want.

"We simply do not like to have two r's so close to each other," Okrent wrote, before explaining it is the result of a process called "dissimilation".

In other words, the Rs are just too close. "Dissimilation" isn't isolated to February, either.

Many people say "suprise" when they should say "surprise", "paticular" instead of "particular", "beserk" over "berserk".

Feb-roo-air-ree. Try it and succeed.

Link To Article

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

not_an_eloi — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 06:28:56 GMT

abbrot, it would appear, can't be bothered to pronounce the location of the winter olympic games, flamin' embarrassment to all australians.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03eSiZLVnM

sow - chee

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=sochi

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

j*oono — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:08:08 GMT

It is quite acceptable to pronounce it as Feb-u-ary and I do.

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

spotweldersfriend — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:09:42 GMT

"Who wants to be a miyonaire"Eddy Maguire.

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

lurker17260 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:09:38 GMT

I quite often want to knee Eddy

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

spotweldersfriend — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:12:07 GMT

🙂 I fixed up the typo lurker.

I once heard Abbott refer to Julian Assange as Julian Assangee:-)

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

cherry*135 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:46:32 GMT

Most people can't pronounce 'February correctly?

How do those people pronounce it?

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

twyngwyn — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:56:10 GMT

Febuary...lol

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

newstart2380 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:57:19 GMT

@icyfroth wrote:
Here's something to liven the CS forum up a bit. Got to admit it has been a bit boring lately.

FEBRUARY is the most mispronounced month. And that's fair enough: the linguistics are a mess.

As Akira Okrent from MentalFloss.com points out, February is just one of a litany of words where many people blatantly ignore the spelling and pronounce it the way they want.

"We simply do not like to have two r's so close to each other," Okrent wrote, before explaining it is the result of a process called "dissimilation".

In other words, the Rs are just too close. "Dissimilation" isn't isolated to February, either.

Many people say "suprise" when they should say "surprise", "paticular" instead of "particular", "beserk" over "berserk".
Feb-roo-air-ree. Try it and succeed.

Link To Article

Hi Icy, I went to boarding school where I learnt to speak gooder english so i pronounce my words proper like.

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

twyngwyn — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:58:27 GMT

same as Maribyrnong

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

lind9650 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:01:55 GMT

But - the majority of Aussies can correctly say Brewery.

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

spotweldersfriend — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:02:25 GMT

Time to exscape this thread before a new colour war breaks out. Don't believe me? Just arks someone.

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

icyfroth — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:45:25 GMT

Surely it must be time for another envirement thread?

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

cherry*135 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:49:17 GMT

Oxford Dictionary

FEBRUARY

Usage

Note that February is spelled with an r following the Feb-. Precise speakers insist that this r should be pronounced, but this is not easy, and most people replace the r following Feb- with a y sound:Feb-yoo- rather than Feb-roo-. This is now becoming the accepted standard.

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

spotweldersfriend — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:51:25 GMT

It's easy really.February comes after Janruary.

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

icyfroth — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:26:20 GMT

no need to go beresk over it, Spot lol

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

i-once-was-bump — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:26:34 GMT

@not_an_eloi wrote:
abbrot, it would appear, can't be bothered to pronounce the location of the winter olympic games, flamin' embarrassment to all australians.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03eSiZLVnM
sow - chee

http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=sochi

You pickin' on our Priminister?

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

lloydslights — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:34:18 GMT

Are you talking about the Priminister of AUSTRAYA?

DEB

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

i-need-a-martini — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:38:21 GMT

Watching MKR tonight I noticed that Pete can't promounce the word "Reshtront".

Re: The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

i-need-a-martini — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:39:45 GMT

And I don't understand how you can possibly pronounce "something" as "somethink"?