Pronunciation

^ there's a lot of..





about which is correct..

 

The latter. If it comes from Greek, a word ending with 'e' has an 'ee' sound. e.g. indices is indicees (multiple indexes).

The one that really pisses me off is when Americans say process-ees. Process isn't from Greek so it's process-es.

 

Met an Iranian a few years back, his complaint was how his birth country’s name was pronounced by some Brits.

 

Scone of course

 

With stress on the second syllable.
hiPERbolee

 

Stone or stone?

 

Proh cess
Or
Pro cess

(one for the Yanks)

 

Sorry. Phonetic cock up.
Pross ess
Or process

 

Schedule is shed duel not sked duel

 

Can’t you be more pacific on that?

 

I sea wot you did there...

 

Did you go to shool?

 

Wrecked um

 

Prostrate and prostate. Usually one to manipulate the other. Close to the one above.

 

I can hear Bob Hope saying that like it was yesterday.

 

I did and where the pronounce Bath as it’s spelt, no r as in Barth, not far from Stoke on Trent where hook, cook and book each have four ‘o’s