I pronounce azure as “uh jzer” with emphasis on the second syllable and most other people say “aa jzer” with emphasis on the first.
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Huh. I always thought the colour had the emphasis on the second syllable and had no idea about the software, but it turns out I've been wrong all along.
I'm going to blame "Azores" (which can be either, apparently) and "assure" (which is always emphasis second) for this as being the model(s) for my mistake.
My wife made fun of me the other day for pronouncing the h in homage. I quickly got my revenge when dictionary.com offered my way as the first pronunciation.
Oh-mage is fancier I will admit.
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I pronounce spigot as "spicket" but that's normal where I'm from.
My mom had a couple of weird ones that took me a while to unlearn:
Stipend = "stipp-ind"
Antibiotics = "antee-BEE-otics"
I say anna-bee-otics. My father is a veterinarian, and would abbreviate antibiotics to anna-bees when speaking with techs about prescriptions. This affected how he’d say antibiotics, and I spent so much time with him over the years I picked up the habit.
It’s pronounced quickly, where if I say it properly I spend conscious thought saying an-tie-bye-otics.
Cape CANNA VERR ALL = Cape Canaveral
Why? Because I can.
Herb with the H. I just have to pronounce it with the H.
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My favorite Youtuber Jacksepticeye also agrees with me
Also, Ark-Kansas. Anything else is weird.
Its literally Kansas with an AR
ARK-KANSAS
simple
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I cop it from my friends and family for the way I say "baloon"
I say bloon with no a sound.
I think it stems from learning to spell it wrong as a child I never put the a in there to begin with and no one corrected me and by the time I realised it was to late
I also can't pronounce "regularly" to save my damn life.
When I say it i add syllables to the thing I think.
Reg u ar ly
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Not me, but I know a bondage instructor who pronounces "bondage" like you would in French.
I think if you're teaching something you should know the pronunciations. Didn't take long to find other stuff wrong with him. My wife and I quickly left and sought our education elsewhere.
This makes me think of the State Farm commercial showing football players in a ballet class. "Boon-dlay....sah-vey..."
"It is called 'baggel'. I lived in New York."
I tend to say Wensleydale, Tuesleydale and Thursleydale as the days of the week. It started as a thing I said to myself because I found it funny, but occasionally I'll slip and say one of them out loud when I'm tired.
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I am the odd one out accent-wise, I am a woman with what would be called a Kiwi accent in a place where everyone else speaks with either a neutral American accent or a New England accent and one of the most common first questions people ask me is if I can say "envelope" for them.
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