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.

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[boris1gary]

my least favourite is Satday - annoys me. I suppose I've come to think of it as - We speak astrayan ere mate, ay

[esseco46]

It also annoys me to hear people say - Satee, Sundee, Mundee etc.

I am not the most perfect English speaker but I do try and say words properly, not proplee.

I must go and do housework before the next heat wave.

[i-once-was-bump]

I fink the minster for industrialations should do somefink about all the tee'chas and pleeece not knowink how to pronounce their own professions.

[newstart2380]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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

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My absolute pet hate along with "I done" For those who are illiterate the word is something or anything and neither have a "K" on the end.

[icyfroth]

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@newstart2380 wrote:

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

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

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My absolute pet hate along with "I done" For those who are illiterate the word is something or anything and neither have a "K" on the end.

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My pet hate is similar: when I hear "I seen" instead of "I saw"

But I get over it.

[lloydslights]

The supposed literates using "Me" and "I" in the wrong way.

DEB