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Sulcus is from the Latin meaning furrow. There is no soft c in Latin hence the pronunciation sulkus.
Ergots are thus named because they resemble a fungus, the ergot family of fungi are described using an audible t, much like thirteen!
 
Oh, I do love a good grammar/pronunciation debate! It's always been "sulkus" and "ergotttt" with me, and periople/perry o' play for good measure.
 
cobgoblin said:
Not horsey, but keep hearing nuclear pronounced on tv as nukerler...drives me mad.
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'Feb-yew-ar-rey' drives me nuts too! I do hold my hand up to having to work really hard not to say 'minnellium' rather than millennium - I blame OH's boss for that, I've struggled ever since hearing him say it that way :D.
 
I have a friend who thinks that the streets are unindated with defribulators. I can't work out how to tell her....

Can't stand people on TV talking about newkular power, that's very common.

Reservoyer, that's another!
 
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how would you all say "pedal" as in "I think my horse has done something to his pedal bone?" Would it be pee-dal or peddle?
 
I work in finance and can't bear people talking about renumeration, especially if they are professionals and really should know better. I have to stop myself putting on my best headmistress voice and enunciating "remyoonerayshun"! Ooh, and while I'm about it, people saying " lay" when it should be "lie", as in " lay down". Sorry, not horsey at all, but just had to vent! I can feel my blood pressure going up already. I really need to go and lie down....
 
Not horsey but I work for a french company and when the french say "analyse" they always, always, always say "analyse-es" it gets to me so much that I cannot focus on the rest of the conversation! and they often say it A LOT
 
also peedal,

unles it has attached itself to my bike!

I do hope Casey comes back to clarify the periople/sulcus situation.
 
it really grates on me when people pronounce issues as is-yews instead of ish-yews . The sound is just horrible, and with all the political debates, it keep hearing it on the radio!
 
The best one I've ever heard, and my favourite, is "libby-doo", as in my stallion's interest, or lack of it, in doing his job. This was uttered by my extremely backwoods vet in Colorado many years ago when I had a stud farm there. I've treasured it ever since :-)
 
Sussexbythesea said:
Pikeur - Pee Cure?
Cushings - cushions

American pronounciation. (My USA relatives)
Peugot - Pew-show
Oregano - "oh reg oh no" instead of "orrygarno"
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Why do some people in England say "per- geot". Does my head in! Have seen it even written that way. The French pronounciation doesn't have an r. Also why do you put an R at the end of oregano?

Americans have funny ones like aloooominum, but that Peugeot would sound better for my ears than the extra r's :p
 
Ahhhhh!!!!!

My head is going to explode

The 7yo me who couldn't read a simple sentence is inside having a panic attack
 
alainax said:
Why do some people in England say "per- geot". Does my head in! Have seen it even written that way. The French pronounciation doesn't have an r. Also why do you put an R at the end of oregano?

Americans have funny ones like aloooominum, but that Peugeot would sound better for my ears than the extra r's :p
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"per-geot" is an accent thing. I say that. I also say "barth, clarse and charff" for bath class and chaff.
 
I love judge Judy, but can't stand when they would say " aks" instead and ask. Spoke with my American friend and she advised its called Ebonics. Learn something new everyday!
 
atropa said:
I'm another who would pronounce sulcus with a hard K. Can't think of any that really annoy me but I'm sure there are loads
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Oops. I've always thought it was pronounced sul-sis. Mind you I don't think I've ever actually said it or heard it said so just assumed how it sounded from how I read it.
 
This thread is making me feel wrong wrong wrong *shudders*

I hate when people say "pacifically" rather than "specifically" - an otherwise intelligent-sounding expert being interviewed on the radio did it repeatedly and it bothered me so much I had to switch channel.

Also... not pronunciation exactly but someone I know sent a text saying "they put her on a pedal stool" - you mean PEDESTAL?! What's a pedal stool?! :D Funny imagery in my head! (This is before the days of autocorrect, so that's not an excuse!)
 
Actually, "Piaffe" in German is pronounced with an "e" sound after the ffs, except the German "e" at the end of a word is generally without emphasis, like the first "i" in affiliated.

Pet peeves of mine (admittedly, a mixture of pronunciation and incorrect spelling):

"I brought" instead of "I bought", when someone's been shopping.
The inability to remember that it is "manege", not "menage". Just say "arena", already.
"I would of done..." instead of "I would have done...". There is no such thing as "would of", "should of", "could of"!

Oh, "laminitus" and "Cushions" also drives me up the wall.
 
Not horse related, but the constant use of the words "myself" and "yourself" really drives me up the wall. "Come and speak to myself about that", "myself and Bob went to the shops" or "I rang to speak to yourself". It just doesn't sound right to me! Whatever happened to the words "me", "you" and "I"??!
 
Well, it's why I asked... it's they are words which I see written all of the time, but never spoken (especially in English ;) ) though apparently I've been spelling periople wrong for the better part of 15 years - oops! (transposing the o and the p)

:o
 
supsup said:
Oh, "laminitus" and "Cushions" also drives me up the wall.
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And "arthritus"

The suffix "-itis" indicates an inflammation e.g bronchitis is an inflammation of the briochioles; cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gall baldder (both of which, may, or may not, be infectious in origin)
 
I did notice one on here recently where someone had written about selling their horse, only they had used 'sale' instead of 'sell'. EG 'I want to sale my horse'.

Another one that is creeping in is the very ugly americanism 'gotten'. EG 'Look how tall she has gotten'. No, no ,no, it's 'got' or 'grown' or 'become.' There are loads of alternatives that are all far more elegant and don't make you sound like a gun toting oik.
 
alainax said:
Why do some people in England say "per- geot". Does my head in! Have seen it even written that way. The French pronounciation doesn't have an r. Also why do you put an R at the end of oregano?

Americans have funny ones like aloooominum, but that Peugeot would sound better for my ears than the extra r's :p
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How do you pronounce Peugeot Alaina? There is little difference in French between "peu" (little/few) and "peur" (fear) it all comes out as "per" just a longer or shorter sound in the middle, but there is a hint of an "r" at the end of both.
 
If we're venturing into the realms of using completely the wrong word...

I'm seeing 'defiantly' being used instead of 'definitely' quite often! This one just makes me laugh :D

And 'his' in place of 'he's'; "His going to the shop".
 
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