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Then let us try teaching you a bit of Romanian," he said. "You have been mispronouncing our name very badly. The emphasis is on the first syllable. Dobrescu," he enunciated for her. The way he pronounced his name made it sound entirely different. Musical, even. -- Elizabeth Camden
Look," he said. "We'd like you to return the salary." "Oh, is that all?" I said. "Heck. That's easy. The answer is no." "What?" "No." "No?" "What part of that two-letter word don't you understand, Brad?" I asked. "Was it the vowel that threw you, or the consonant ? -- John Scalzi
Again, the first "o" in "borogoves" is pronounced like the "o" in "borrow." I have heard people try to give it the sound of the "o" in "worry". Such is Human Perversity. -- Lewis Carroll
Dance Like A Pronunciation -- Gagan Khiwani
It doesn't matter how simple your name is; it's always a surprise to hear it spoken aloud by someone new, how the specific arrangement of syllables sounds coming out of their mouth. -- Katie Heaney
How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O -- Henny Youngman
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump ... -- Zelda Fitzgerald
I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favour of doing it. -- Henry James
Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's." "Well you can't say fairer than that then -- Tommy Cooper
There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname. -- Milla Jovovich
We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves. -- Johnny Vegas
WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over;
I stand apart to hear - it never tires me.
To you, your name also;
Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name? -- Walt Whitman
It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce. -- Rebecca Romijn
I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name. -- Jamie Farr
I couldn't help but notice that he'd pronounced her name differently, like her name, and only her name, contained all the good letters. -- Morgan Matson
6.6.19.61.247: Vulgar mispronunciations of everyday words will not be tolerated. -- Jasper Fforde
There are only two times in your life when you get "pronounced." You get pronounced married and you get pronounced dead. Somewhere there's a cynic saying, "What's the difference? -- Mike Dugan
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. -- Wislawa Szymborska
To pronounce French properly you must have within you a deep antipathy, not to say scorn, for some of the most sacred of the Anglo-Saxon prejudices. -- Rex Stout
When you're undead, the emphasis is on the second syllable. -- Peter Watts
I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I. -- William Goldman
One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them. -- Bill Nye
He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation. -- Kelley Armstrong
My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted. -- Stewart Lee Beck
I think the world would be a simpler place if 'douche' and 'touche' were pronounced the same. -- Travis J. Dahnke
The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again. -- Mark Twain
Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses. -- Winston Churchill
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African. -- Joanna Newsom
English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously. -- Vivien Leigh
Any word with the our ending could be spelt or, don'tchaknow." "Like neighbor instead of neighbour?" "It's a good idea," put in Snell. "Labor, valor, flavor, harbor - there must be hundreds. If we confine it to one geographical area, we can claim it as a local spelling idiosyncrasy. -- Jasper Fforde
Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced! -- Maria Edgeworth
The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside. -- David Levithan
"I don't know exactly what's wrong with you, but I bet it's hard to pronounce when you're drunk." -- Cherie Priest
Such is the magic of human languages, that by human accord often the same sounds mean different things. -- Umberto Eco
I have trouble saying hu ... hu ... husband. -- Rosanna Arquette
Which word when pronounced right is wrong but if pronounced wrong is right? The word wrong. -- Phineas T. Gildersleeve
My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure. -- Adelaide Crapsey
The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right. -- Mark Twain
Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson. -- Mark Twain
I pronounce us man and something-or-other. We're married, big boy. -- Gordon Merrick
We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound. -- John Oliver
Sometimes i want to say it. and there is nothing in english. that will say it. -- Nayyirah Waheed
We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it! -- Bill Walsh
As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English. -- Charles Kennedy
It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat. -- William Shakespeare
They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English. -- Harry Caray
The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct. -- Christine Baranski
How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' . -- George Bernard Shaw
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. -- Jane Austen
It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Syllables govern the world. -- George Bernard Shaw
No one can understand my accent! -- Jean-Georges Vongerichten
Her name was Marroca, probably her maiden name, and she pronounced it as though it had fifteen r's in it. -- Guy De Maupassant
Lin-da." He parted the syllables very slightly, as with a comb. -- Emily Fridlund
Bronagh," I said clearly. I hated when foreign people pronounced my name, they completely butchered it. "Bro-nah?" Dark twin correctly sounded it out then muttered about the stupidity of the G being silent. -- L.a. Casey
It's a hard spell and an old spell, and it works only if you understand the Great Vowel Shift of the Sixteenth Century - and if you're stupidly in love. -- Rainbow Rowell
The way he says it, I can hear the capital letters. -- Robin Sloan
So here is one tip, be careful how you say the words... sometimes people get it wrong once wrong it goes like rummor. -- Deyth Banger
Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open. -- Jo Walton
Whoever was responsible for naming the fae races should really have put more thought into making them pronounceable when drunk. -- Seanan Mcguire
Octokongs," I pronounced grimly. "Why did it have to be octokongs? -- Jim Butcher
Roland G. Fryer Jr., while discussing his names research on a radio show, took a call from a black woman who was upset with the name just given to her baby niece. It was pronounced shuh-TEED but was in fact spelled "Shithead. -- Anonymous
I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid. -- M T Anderson
To the non-Swiss ear it sounds as if the speaker is construing made-up words from the oddest rhythms and the queerest clipped consonants and the most perturbing arrangement of gaping, rangy vowels. -- Jill Alexander Essbaum
Watch whether your heart agrees with, everything that your tongue pronounces. -- John Of Kronstadt
Words are memes that can be pronounced. -- Daniel C. Dennett
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.' -- Temple Grandin
Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once! -- Stephen Colbert
That darkest of syllables, death. -- Mary Mcmullen
To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again. -- Margaret Atwood
I'm all about 'I'/ Give the rest of the vowels back -- Lil' Wayne
If Entrepreneurship was easy, the term would have been easier to pronounce too! -- Shubham Choudhary
Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last. -- David Rusenko
Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination. -- Mark Twain
Pretty as a pineapple," pronounced -- Gail Carriger
neighborhood - his name's pronounced 'Kirry,' but it's spelt 'C-i-r-e.' -- Diana Gabaldon
The last name is pronounced Jill-en-hall. It's spelled with two l's, two a's. We have a song in my family; G-Y-Double L - EN - HAAL spells Gyllenhaal. It's a Swedish name. It's a family heirloom set to music. -- Jake Gyllenhaal
I hate dialect. It gets in the way. If there is a need for dialect, you can render it quite easily by reproducing the rythm of that form of speech. Then you don't need to bother with silly spellings -- Diana Wynne Jones
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry. -- Bill Cosby
Accent your positive and delete your negative. -- Donna Karan
It normally happens that if you put two words together, or two syllables together, one of them will attract more weight, more emphasis, than the other. In other words, most so-called spondees can be read as either iambs or trochees. -- James Fenton
You don't spell it, son. You eat it. -- John Hughes
and in those three syllables, Mustafa heard -- Anonymous
Say it...out loud. -- Stephenie Meyer
In hotels, every time I make a reservation and they never find my name, they never can pronounce it; it's so long, and sometimes they confuse. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban? -- Herman Cain
I pay attention to this; which is not pronounced, in accordance with the truth, in life. -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Oberon Did Middle English hounds bark with an extra syllable on the end? like 'woofe'? -- Kevin Hearne
In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant. -- Diane Setterfield
in which great difficulties are found to the present day by Englishmen, whose language presents no certain laws for rendering any given sound into a fixed combination of letters. -- James Cook
Why use a 10 letter word you can barely pronounce ... when a four letter one will do. -- Timothy Pina
Perhaps I was being picky, but I really didn't think being able to spell orgasm without being spotted a vowel was asking too much. -- Summer Daniels
Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom. -- Sun Ra
My name is actually Polish. It's my husband's name. Most people say 'Zaw-stak,' but it's 'Show-stack,' like you're going to a show, eating a stack of pancakes. -- Stephanie Szostak
Why is S-A-S pronounced S-A-W? It should be Ar-Kansas. Did Kansas object? -- J.d. Robb
School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant. -- Myla Goldberg
Accents are always difficult in their way, but as long as you're not throwing an audience off with it, then that's all it should be. -- Ben Mendelsohn
Aramaic has no vowels. So MLK spells Moloch." "Or milk," Deborah said. "Really, Debs, if you think our killer would tattoo milk on his neck, you need a nap. -- Jeff Lindsay
