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The Proper Pronounciation is 'TEM-PER-UH-CHER'!

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I fully understand the Tarentum matter but lets consider an even more common word. How many of these supposed "educated" news and weather people cannot or will not pronounce "temperature" correctly? Afterall they went to "college" didn't they? Aren't they "highly educated" "journalists"??? But listen to them....its "TEM-PAH-CHER" or "TEMP-CHER".

While we're at it...its "EE-LEVIN" and not "AH-LEVIN". Its "EE-MER-JEN-SEE" not "AH-MER-JAN-SEE".

When we need a cop, fireman or ambulance, we call "NINE-ONE-ONE". Last I checked, its not "NINE-AH-LEVIN". There's no "11" on any phone I've seen!
 
Look, we had a president who pronounced "nuclear" as "nucular"... the butchering of the language is what it is. Many words over time have origins in other words which were commonly mispronounced, and eventually the mispronunciation becamew a new word. It has literally been going on forever.
 
Proper pronunciation of common words is probably a topic best avoided by a Yinzer message board. ;D
 
Parttimer said:
Look, we had a president who pronounced "nuclear" as "nucular"... the butchering of the language is what it is. Many words over time have origins in other words which were commonly mispronounced, and eventually the mispronunciation becamew a new word. It has literally been going on forever.
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I'm tired of that old line. Which president are you referring to, Bush or Carter?
 
I sent an email to Starkey and Seibel lambasting them for saying: I could care less.

That one drives me nuts, it's I could NOT care less. And Starkey used to be in the print biz.

Ah, the dummmmmming down of America.
 
COPANUT said:
Parttimer said:
Look, we had a president who pronounced "nuclear" as "nucular"... the butchering of the language is what it is. Many words over time have origins in other words which were commonly mispronounced, and eventually the mispronunciation becamew a new word. It has literally been going on forever.
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I'm tired of that old line. Which president are you referring to, Bush or Carter?
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I had forgotten Carter... they actually both said it...
 
Parttimer said:
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I had forgotten Carter... they actually both said it...
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And the funny part was, Carter served as senior officer of the pre-commissioning crew of the Seawolf, the second nuclear submarine.

What a country.
 
William C. Walker said:
I always thought it as pronounced Tempacheer. ;D
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No, that's a laundry detergent.

And in the "printed word" version of malapropisms, the opposite of
find, or win, is spelled lose--not loose! ::)
 
I will say I was once tutored by a prominent local sportscaster not to say "git," as Pittsburgh accents will sometimes say, but "get."

And then there are stations in the rural south, where announcers are encouraged to impersonate Dizzy Dean . . . .
 
I remember doing my first college audition tape and being stunned to hear that I had been pronouncing
the word "bear" as "bahr"! (as a toddler living in Columbus my parents had told me that we were the only
non-Kentuckians on the block. It's my only theory on where I may have picked that up)
 
The list should also include 'yuman' , 'eeee-mediately' and 'hunert' (instead of hundred)....I plead guilty to all of those at some time.
 
"ta" instead of "to", "fewer" incorrectly used in place of "less" and vice-versa, and the biggest rub of all -gone/went missing. What ever happened to disappeared?
 
JohnW said:
"ta" instead of "to", "fewer" incorrectly used in place of "less" and vice-versa, and the biggest rub of all -gone/went missing. What ever happened to disappeared?
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The Style Council had a song called "Why I Went Missing." But since they're more British than the Queen and pretty obscure in the US (and since the song is 20+ years old) I don't think they are inspiring this turn of phrase. :)

I think root/rowt is a regional thing.
 
corporateradiosucks said:
I think root/rowt is a regional thing.
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Yinz mean raht 30 n'at?

I pulled up to a gated community once in Florida, and the gentleman who let me in directed me to the last "hahse" on the left. I asked him how long ago he moved from Pittsburgh.... he got this shocked look and asked how I knew... I said, "you said 'hahse'...."
 
right about now I close my eyes and can picture my 9th. grade English teacher spinning in her grave
 
Part- What about when one meets a fella from Canada?

You can always tell, but most notably when they say "out."

I can't even spell it phonetically, but you can always spot a Canadian. It's a dead giveaway!
 
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