At EMT class last night we learned about the airway and how to maintain adequate ventilation.
The instructor is a true-blue-American and his accent is just about the same as any other Utahn's.
It was a great lecture, aside from one tiny detail...
Everytime he said the words 'pharynx' or 'larynx' he pronounced them as though they were spelled 'fair-nix' and 'lair-nix' which irritated me to no end.
Someone at work said that it bothers him when people pronounce the word 'intestines' like 'in-tess-TYNES'.
Anyone have other pronunciation pet peeves?
Friday, September 12, 2014
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I finally remembered another couple of dreams!! So... in the first one I
was standing next to a computer that my sister Hannah was on. I was
standing behin...
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4 comments:
Pro nounce ci a tion instead of pro nun ci a tion.
Ha ha. This is a funny subject. Your dad used to pronounce Italian like Eye-talian. He insisted he was correct, but has since been converted otherwise. I love how the British pronounce aluminum: Al-you-mini-yum or something like that. And of course, there's Hannah's Jeruslahem. Ha ha. Mariel said she can't really understand her Asian math teacher. Pronunciation makes a big difference in the ability of others to understand. A lady in our ward who is from Thailand was sharing her testimony and kept talking about the "co-man-mas." It took me a while to realize she was talking about the "commandments."
Para-dis-sigh-a-cull glory! I married a Word Man, and I get mini-lessons all the time. My children sound like East coasters to me. The one that kills me: Awhhn, like "lawn" for "Up ON the rooftop." I try to see the weird word sounds as endearing, instead of irritating. Now we know how to bug you, just point out our lary-nix! Ha!
I live next to a great big Army base that tests explosives. Ordnance. It's a two syllable word. ORD-ninz.
That's not what happens at church. That's an ordinance. Three syllable word.
And troops that go into battle on mounts (even mechanical ones, like helicopters), those are called "cavalry". CAV-ul-ree. It's why the army refers to their helicopter troops as "air cav".
The hill where Jesus was executed was "Calvary". CAL-vuh-ree.
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