Speaking 'properly' or not

[Joe Bento]

I still remember back to navy boot camp when we were learning ship 
terminology.

The front of a ship - the "forecastle" is not typically pronounced 
as fore-castle, but rather fOk-s+l.

It is still one of the stranger spelling vs pronunciations I recall.

Joe


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman" 
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> 
> Steve:
> > . ...and by the way, how do they prononce
> > > 'yoghurt' if not as the dictionary indicates 'yogert'.
> 
> Karen: 
> > As I understand it the American English way to pronounce yoghurt 
is 
> > yo-gert (as in yo-yo), whereas the English (no need to say 
British 
> > English BTW, LOL!) is yog-ert wher yog rhymes with jog.
> 
> 
> SSSusan:
> Wow!  I go away for two days, and y'all are having some FUN around 
> here.
> 
> Steve, if you want to hear it pronounced the British way, 
> watch "Love, Actually" and wait for Alan Rickman's hilarious 
> encounter with Rowan Atkinson at the jewelry counter.  "What, are 
you 
> going to dip it in YOG-hurt next?" 
> 
> And I'm waiting for Texan Jen to pipe up on Steve's comments about 
> all = awl and oil = awl.  Just what *is* that microscopic 
difference 
> in pronunciation which distinguishes the two?  :-)
> 
> A couple of the most annoying mispronunciations I hear with 
Americans 
> are "ath-uh-lete" for "athlete" and "souf [rhymes with south]-
more" 
> for "sophomore."  Bleh.
> 
> Now I could start a real argument amongst Americans, I imagine, by 
> asking who says "VEE-uh-kuhl" and who says "vee-HICK-uhl" 
> for "vehicle."  I've probably given away my preference in the way 
I 
> phoneticized the two versions. ;-)
> 
> Siriusly Snapey Susan, who'd never have known it was "Bark-sheer" 
and 
> would've embarrassed herself by saying "Berk [rhymes with "jerk"]-
> sher [rhymes with "were"].