Pro·nun·ci·a·tion

Rhetoric, Pronunciation, and Arceus, Rayquaza, basically all the Pokémon.

My friends constantly flame my pronunciation issues.

 

I've been told I pronounce "museum" strangely. This was only pointed out to me recently, so I think it was part of a regional dialect that I picked up.

I tend to have pretty easy pronunciation of all sorts of words. Even obscure medical terms. I was watching TV a little while ago and saw an ad for some kind of prescription drug that had the active ingredient Canaglaflazin (or whatever, I'm not going to look it up), and in making fun of the ongoing list of dangers in this commercial, I say can-uh-gluh-flah-zin ten times fast while making up side effects. First try, too.

Sometimes I hear other people have strange pronunciations. They'll say something like "I can't believe you, you're a god among men!" and I swear it will sound like they're saying "I can't believe you, you're such a pig!". I mean what kind of dialect pronounces "god among men" as "pig"? It's like they want me to get offended by their wacky accents' pronunciations. Ah, but I don't let it get to me, I know they mean well.

 

Thē ōnlē thingz īv found mīsĕlf ĕvər trulē ĭnkāpəbəl ŏf prōnounsing ăr spəsĭfĭk fŏrĭn nāmz (ūzhʊlē thōz frəm Ēstərn Yʊrəp, thō thair hăv bĭn əthər kāsĕz), ăz wĕl ăz ĕnē fŏrĭn wûrd thăt ĭnvŏlvz trĭling thə lĕtər Ăr. Fōr wătĕvər rēzən, Ī hăv bĭn ŭnābəl tu dēvĕləp thĭs hăbĭt. Ĭn Inglĭsh Ī dōnt sēm tu hăv thĭs prŏbləm, lārjlē bēcôz Ī tĕnd tu ēnŭnsēāt mī wûrdz, ănd māk ĕspĕshəlē shʊr thăt Īm prōnounsing thĕm kŏrĕktlē - ŏftĕntīmz ĭn thē păst Ī hăv kəm ăkrŏs ă lăt ŏf wûrdz ănd nāmz thăt kʊd bē prōnounsd ă fū dĭfĕrĕnt wāz, ănd Ī ŏlwāz wŏntĕd tu māk shʊr Ī wŏz kŏrĕkt.


Translation:

The only things I've found myself ever truly incapable of pronouncing are specific foreign names (usually those from Eastern Europe, though there have been other cases), as well as any foreign word that involves trilling the letter R. For whatever reason, I have been unable to develop this habit. In English I don't seem to have this problem, largely because I tend to enunciate my words, and make especially sure that I'm pronouncing them correctly - oftentimes in the past I have come across a lot of words and names that could be pronounced a few different ways, and I always wanted to make sure I was correct.

 

I believe I'm okay at pronunciation as long as it's English. Honestly, anything foreign is very tough for me, thus why I'm so awful at Spanish. I think one of the only words I cannot say is debt. I mean I don't want to say that word anyways but that's fine.

 

I actually read the first paragraph before I noticed that you translated it (but I read it correctly).

Anyway, I don't have trouble pronouncing any word. But the word deity, I pronounce it as "Die-et-ee". Is that correct?

 

I knew it. Oh well, I'll just have to get used to pronouncing it correctly then.

 

Huh... I always thought it was pronounced "Day-i-tee"

 

I used to have trouble saying hypothesis and photosynthesis.

 

The word 'deity' can be pronounced either as 'dē·ĭ·tē' or 'dā·ĭ·tē'.
However, the former is the preferred way.

 

The word I have most issues with is Statistics, there's just too many S's in it, I can't get past the "stat" part haha

 

I've heard that my native language uses every soung that is humanely possible and thus people who speak it have the innate ability to be great at pronouncing stuff. I'm not sure if it's true but I've rarely had trouble pronouncing things. Rarely, not never. XD

 

This is dumb but I can't stop myself from pronouncing sword and answer with the W sound. Also, I don't know if this is actually incorrect but I always pronounce going as go-een.