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The word you find weird

posted 6 years ago by PeteRose (2893)
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Every once in a while a word strikes me as different somehow, different than I've always heard it, even though it's the same as it always was.

Today, that word is: orange.

I've heard it and said it a million times, but today it's weird. One thing that's setting me off is there are a variety of ways people pronounce it. I say it about how it's spelled: or-anj. My boyfriend says it really sharp: ornch. Mark Healy on Roseanne and the narrator of Forensic Files say: are-anj. Now even the way I say it sounds weird to me.

What words do this to you?

[–] captainbucky (15252) 6 years ago

Ongoing

[–] PeteRose (2893) 6 years ago

I am late back to my own thread but I just had a blew-my-mind moment with that word. Ongoing is so weird!

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

Ageing. Why is it spelt with an e? It doesn't look correct.

[–] PeteRose (2893) 6 years ago

It looks like it's supposed to have 3 syllables, like the Aegean Sea. Also Aegean sure has a lot of vowels and looks weird.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7384) 6 years ago

Caramel. Like, what is the correct pronunciation of this word?
Suicide. Just...what are you?
Morphine. Everyone pronounces it more-feen. But something tells me in my gut it's supposed to be more-fine.
And just today, I was writing the word 'neglector' and trying to figure out if it was "er" or "or" at the end. Apparently, not a word at all. Quasi-neglect is a word, but not neglector/neglecter. Okay, sure.

[–] PeteRose (2893) 6 years ago

I would've thought neglector is a word, and for some reason I am drawn to -or ending. If you put it in a poem or other work, it becomes a word as far as I'm concerned.

Caramel is just anxiety inducing for me. I grew up saying carmel, and it doesn't feel right, but saying caramel feels even more outrageous.

I never thought about morphyne before...but now I am.

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7384) 6 years ago

I'm also drawn to neglector. And yes, caramel makes one quite mad. As for morphine...sorry.

[–] Frogarama (12942) 6 years ago

"Morphine. Everyone pronounces it more-feen. But something tells me in my gut it's supposed to be more-fine."

That's similar to pedophile, which I'm sure most pronounce with an opening like "ped" although it should be a long E sound like "pede."

The proper "pede" comes through in Pediatrics, while the improper "ped" belongs to "foot," like in pedestrian and pedometer.

=)

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7384) 6 years ago

I get that. The vowel that follows after the letter draws out the sound of the first vowel. In pedophile, it goes e/d/o or vowel/letter/vowel, same as in pediatrics. Which in the case of morphine, makes the pronunciation more-fine.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

labyrinth

[–] Frogarama (12942) 6 years ago

Going. Look at it long enough and it stops being go-ing, turning into something like "boing"

[–] snepts (11123) 6 years ago

I often have a hard time spelling the word "rhythm." Too many Hs, the only vowel is the rarely used Y, one vowel two syllables. It's trick-ay, it's trick-ay, it's absolutely trick-ay !

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

i hate that word. Always want to add an E.

[–] AndyKing (300) 6 years ago

Vinyl - I always have to check the spelling.
Because - Because (see what I did there) it doesn’t look right.
Weird - it’s just weird isn’t it.

[–] PeteRose (2893) 6 years ago

Weird is weird. It breaks the i before e rule. It's not after C and it doesn't sound like A and yet it's still spelled ei.

[–] snepts (11123) 6 years ago

For the last couple years, I hear people saying, not "im-por-tant/tint," but "im-por-'Int." Hear it all the time, and I don't know how this has come about.

[–] PeteRose (2893) 6 years ago

A lot of Ts get softened in the US. I hear innerested for interested all the time.

[–] snepts (11123) 6 years ago

The funny thing is when I analyze the way I say im-por-tant, I don't say it precisely, either. It's just when I hear others say it poorly, it usually sounds straight out of Hicksville.

But my biggest peeve is GROCER. Is it "Grow Sir?" Or is it "Grow Sher"? Can't stand hearing people routinely say Growsher. Almost none of the other words that end with -cer are pronounced with a Sher. Chaucer? Saucer? Cancer? Prancer? Dancer? How about Shervantes who wrote Don Quixote?

[–] PeteRose (2893) 6 years ago

I hate growsher too, that's just wrong. Grow-sir all the way

[–] Wint3rFir3 (7384) 6 years ago

What the hell is grow sher? Who says this? They need to be banned from being on the planet.