i think you mean "al-you-mini-um"
He/she should be forced to take fish oil capsules every day. D:I have a friend who pronounces the 'L' in salmon. drives me nuts
I'd like to address this. It would seem to me that pronouncing Aluminium as "Al-you-min-ee-um" would be the most logical for the following reasons:
1) the U sound is generally a you sound when not prefixed by anything that changes the sound for example: Tune and Dune. They are not pronounced "toon and doon" but "Tyoun and "Dyoun" This therefore makes sense for the first part of the word to be "Al-you" not "Al-oo"
2) If we look at the materials / elements with similar names we get "Calcium" or "Barium", "Einsteinium", "Potassium", "Magnesium" etc. All of these words end with "ium" making the sound "ee-um" For example you wouldn't pronounce "Magnesium" as "Mag-nees-um" so why would you pronounce "Aluminium" as "Al-you-min-um"
He/she should be forced to take fish oil capsules every day. D:
in the states, we spell aluminum "aluminum"... in uk countries, it's "aluminium". neither are wrong, but i was correcting the poster's "aluminium" mispronunciation.
It isn't? What is it???I always thought thru was a slang abbreviation for through,
Good stuff!didn't know it was an actual word in itself.
also, I'm guilty of:
Don't say: cannidate | Do say: candidate
Don't say: drownd | Do say: drown
Don't say: Febyuary | Do say: February
Don't say: libary | Do say: library
Don't say: mannaise | Do say: mayonnaise
Don't say: perscription | Do say: prescription
Don't say: pronounciation | Do say: pronunciation
Don't say: realator | Do say: realtor
Don't say: snuck | Do say: sneaked
Don't say: supremist | Do say: supremacist
Yeah, it's "ore-gun," as I noted in recent post here, and "ore-gone" is a tip-off to distinguish unknowing outsiders.Ore-ee-gone as opposed to Or-uh-gun. This one doesn't come up as much as it used to, but it's still a handy tool to distinguish outsiders.
I'm still pissed that so many people mispronounced regardless as irregardless that the dictionary decided it would just make irregardless a word. That's just lazy, dammit!
I'd like to address this. It would seem to me that pronouncing Aluminium as "Al-you-min-ee-um" would be the most logical for the following reasons:
1) the U sound is generally a you sound when not prefixed by anything that changes the sound for example: Tune and Dune. They are not pronounced "toon and doon" but "Tyoun and "Dyoun" This therefore makes sense for the first part of the word to be "Al-you" not "Al-oo"
2) If we look at the materials / elements with similar names we get "Calcium" or "Barium", "Einsteinium", "Potassium", "Magnesium" etc. All of these words end with "ium" making the sound "ee-um" For example you wouldn't pronounce "Magnesium" as "Mag-nees-um" so why would you pronounce "Aluminium" as "Al-you-min-um"
cavalry as "cal-var-ee"...
One word that took me a while to figure out its pronunciation was epitome.
Yeah, it's "ore-gun," as I noted in recent post here, and "ore-gone" is a tip-off to distinguish unknowing outsiders.
I've always thought that "irregardless" was a substitute for the word "irrespective," not "regardless." I don't hear "irregardless" a lot. Here's a story I heard a long time ago (and probably true) about the etymology of the word 'irregardless":
The old Amos and Andy show (originally on radio, and I think they may have done a TV thing later, when TV started up and became ubiquitous in the 1950's) had a couple of characters who would riff off each other and one of them would use the _word_ (not then a real, "official" word) "irregardless," as in "irregardless, Andy,..." I suppose that millions of Americans hearing that over and over resulted in it becoming a recognized word.
It's whatever he says it is. It's his damn name!Joe Theismann => Joe Thighs-man
His name is Joe Theese-man (rhymes with cheese-man). He "changed" the pronunciation in college as part of his Heisman trophy campaign ("Theismann for Heisman") and it stuck, but it's still wrong.
Don't tell that to all the damn Calvary Christian churches.
You kidding me? There are at least 10 threads with almost the same freaking titles that have been posted. The posts and participants are almost identical.
It's probably that people notice the trolls more...
Nope. "Tune" and "dune" should be "toon" and "doon," except for you Brits.I'd like to address this. It would seem to me that pronouncing Aluminium as "Al-you-min-ee-um" would be the most logical for the following reasons:
1) the U sound is generally a you sound when not prefixed by anything that changes the sound for example: Tune and Dune. They are not pronounced "toon and doon" but "Tyoun and "Dyoun" This therefore makes sense for the first part of the word to be "Al-you" not "Al-oo"
The difference is that "ium" has the "u" after a vowel. For "tune" / "dune" / "aluminum", it comes after a consonant.2) If we look at the materials / elements with similar names we get "Calcium" or "Barium", "Einsteinium", "Potassium", "Magnesium" etc. All of these words end with "ium" making the sound "ee-um" For example you wouldn't pronounce "Magnesium" as "Mag-nees-um" so why would you pronounce "Aluminium" as "Al-you-min-um"
Everyone:
"Chipotle"
Pronounced "chi pote lay,"
not "chi pole tay."
As eits mentioned, here the spelling is 'aluminum' so the 'mini-um' pronunciation would necessarily sound wrong. #1 is just plain wrong: "tune" and "dune" are 'toon' and 'dune' and "alu" is 'a-loo'.
Don't tell that to all the damn Calvary Christian churches.
Definition of CAVALRY
1
a : an army component mounted on horseback
Definition of CALVARY
1
: an open-air representation of the crucifixion of Jesus.
Calvary, the hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified.
so it's pronounced about the same as "organ"?
"or-eh-gan"?
"or-eh-gun"?
"or-eh-gon"?
There was a poll here a while go - a significant portion of ATOT posters (half maybe?) pronounce "grenade" as "ger-nade" and think that's acceptable. That sounds like how a child learning to speak might say it.