The Reason Most People Cannot Pronounce 'February'

[icyfroth]

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

[spotweldersfriend]

[katymatey*]

Library is another word often mispronounced. 

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

I rekon the most mispronounced word on TV these days is preform and preformance.

[lloydslights]

Ah, Dorrie and Herb?   

[imastawka]

And who barracks for Essadun in the AFL?

[the_great_she_elephant]

And it would probably come as a shock to many Aussies to learn that "poor" should be pronounced differently from pore. 

[imastawka]

Ah,  (wistfully)   English as she is spoke.....

When you have a song, you must have a sing-ga

[spotweldersfriend]

....and a broken poip? Call a plumma 😊

[darksideofthemoon]

and it's GoverNment, not Goverment   hahaha!

[esseco46]

And some people pronounce January as Janury, and other people on TV can't say Australia instead they say Ostraya and instead of today, they say terday with an emphasis on the 'ter'.