Question of the day - Thursday 10 October

[MonaLyssa33]

I can't think of anything specific, but I often get tongue-tied from a variety of word combinations.

 

[mani]

I sing mantra (kirtan) and sometimes that involves speeding up the chant... try singing OM NAMO AMITABHAYA BUDDHAYA DHARMAYA SANGHAYA OM really quickly.
Otherwise, I can't think of anything.

 

[DreamerRose]

Exacerbate is a good one. We all probably have trouble with that one. Prowess, too.

 

[Willowy]

I cannot get my tongue around the pronunciation of the name: Sheila.

It comes out so weird. Just cannot get that “l” along with the “Ya” sound.

I know someone named Sheila, and it's just pronounced "shee-la", no "ya" sound .

I talk funny. Too fast or too garbled or something. So even though I know HOW to pronounce words properly they don't always come out the way they should. I can't think of any word in particular though.

 

[micknsnicks2mom]

no problem pronouncing any words, unless it's a word that's new to me. i do sometimes put my own 'spin' on pronouncing some words, just for the fun of it.

 

[Mia6]

Alzheimer, pronouncing it and spelling it

 

[bbdoll22]

I cannot pronounce abominable. It always comes out as abdominal.

 

[Columbine]

My mom always said "Woo-ster-shur," but she said it with the boo sound. That sauce is very common in Louisiana cooking, and we lived in New Orleans for a while.

I've heard that Wooster is very close to the ancient Roman sauce garum. It was made by the barrel from fermented fish, and the Romans drowned everything in it.

Now I see it typed like that, I realise that your mom's pronunciation is almost correct. I'm so used to 'shire' said like 'shur' (as it is always said when the last syllable of a county/city name here), that I didn't think twice about writing it that way



So, definitely 'Woo-ster-shur' sauce, with the 'oo' as in 'look'.


The only time 'shire' is said as it's written in the UK is when referring to Shire horses (a big English breed of horse).

 

[Kitty Mommy]

I always have trouble saying Massachusetts.

 

[aliceneko]

no problem pronouncing any words, unless it's a word that's new to me. i do sometimes put my own 'spin' on pronouncing some words, just for the fun of it.

Me too.