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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.
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 ?
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.
Dance Like A Pronunciation
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.
How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O
Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump ...
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.
Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's." "Well you can't say fairer than that then
There are many times where even I, at certain points in the evening, after a few drinks, can't pronounce my own surname.
We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.
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?
It's pronounced 'Romaine', like the lettuce.
I tried to make it a simple as possible for people so they could pronounce my name.
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.
6.6.19.61.247: Vulgar mispronunciations of everyday words will not be tolerated.
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?
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it.
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.
When you're undead, the emphasis is on the second syllable.
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.
One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.
He said "cool" like I say a Spanish word when I'm not sure of the pronunciation.
My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.
I think the world would be a simpler place if 'douche' and 'touche' were pronounced the same.
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.
Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
I am consciously trying not to make it sound Celtic or African.
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.
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.
Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!
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.
"I don't know exactly what's wrong with you, but I bet it's hard to pronounce when you're drunk."
Such is the magic of human languages, that by human accord often the same sounds mean different things.
I have trouble saying hu ... hu ... husband.
Which word when pronounced right is wrong but if pronounced wrong is right? The word wrong.
My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.
The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.
Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.
I pronounce us man and something-or-other. We're married, big boy.
We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.
Sometimes i want to say it. and there is nothing in english. that will say it.
We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it!
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.
It's HE-RO," the boy argued. "No," the girl insisted, "it's HER-O.
But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat.
They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.
The sibilant s is the most difficult sound to correct.
How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.
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.
Syllables govern the world.
No one can understand my accent!
Her name was Marroca, probably her maiden name, and she pronounced it as though it had fifteen r's in it.
Lin-da." He parted the syllables very slightly, as with a comb.
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.
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.
The way he says it, I can hear the capital letters.
So here is one tip, be careful how you say the words... sometimes people get it wrong once wrong it goes like rummor.
Welsh mutates initial consonants. Actually all languages do, but most of them take centuries, while Welsh does it while your mouth is still open.
Whoever was responsible for naming the fae races should really have put more thought into making them pronounceable when drunk.
Octokongs," I pronounced grimly. "Why did it have to be octokongs?
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.
I can read. A little. I kind of protested it in School(TM). On the grounds that the silent 'E' is stupid.
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.
Watch whether your heart agrees with, everything that your tongue pronounces.
Words are memes that can be pronounced.
Some people with autism who don't talk, all they hear are vowel sounds. Like if I said 'cup,' they might just hear 'uh.'
Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!
That darkest of syllables, death.
To pronounce the name of the dead is to make them live again.
I'm all about 'I'/ Give the rest of the vowels back
If Entrepreneurship was easy, the term would have been easier to pronounce too!
Brotha needed to buy a vowel and rent a verb, then get a roll of duct tape slapped on that broken English.
Company names without clear pronunciation or spelling won't last.
Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
Pretty as a pineapple," pronounced
neighborhood - his name's pronounced 'Kirry,' but it's spelt 'C-i-r-e.'
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.
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
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Accent your positive and delete your negative.
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.
You don't spell it, son. You eat it.
and in those three syllables, Mustafa heard
Say it...out loud.
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.
How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?
I pay attention to this; which is not pronounced, in accordance with the truth, in life.
Oberon Did Middle English hounds bark with an extra syllable on the end? like 'woofe'?
In speech he stretched out his vowel sounds to give his mouth a rest before the next consonant.
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.
Why use a 10 letter word you can barely pronounce ... when a four letter one will do.
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.
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.
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.
Why is S-A-S pronounced S-A-W? It should be Ar-Kansas. Did Kansas object?
School is consonantal in its unchanging schedule. God, full of possibility, is a vowel. Death: the ultimate consonant.
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.
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.