Well thankfully those words don't come up too much. There are a bunch of words I don't like but at the moment my brain is too full to remember what they are. Which is odd because normally things I hate come to mind all too easy.
Is it really mascar like nascar? I've heard the incorrect 'mars' and I've heard the what I thought was correct 'moss'carpone, but never that longer 'a' like in nascar.
Ahh, I am not familiar with the Canadian vowel shift.
I don't think it's a southern thing and it's not a long a in Nascar. It's an 'a' as in "apple", instead of an 'a' as in "adore" (almost like an "uhh" but not quite)
I like the words "chitin" and "chitinous," but so many people mispronounce them. Wil Wheaton was narrating John Scalzi's The Android's Dream and said "chitinous" like it's spelled, instead of with a hard "K" and long "I" as in the Greek letter chi. I cringed.
One of my FB friends' wife has a printing company called Palimpsest Press. I asked him if she strictly prints on used medium after the text has been erased. He was impressed I knew the term. Yet, it's not a pleasant word. Stops the flow, dead.
I hate the word “hypotenuse.” It sounds to me like that crappy band that came to everyone’s junior high school assembly day. “Hey kids, we’re Hypotenuse. We’re here to talk to you about Jesus, the dangers of drugs and the power of geometry.” About three songs in, we all wanted some meth…
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Date: 2013-05-31 01:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-31 04:30 am (UTC)I also hate mascarpone because everyone mispronounces it. It's mascar, like NASCAR.
And "ironic", because nobody knows what it means. Let's all just give it up.
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Date: 2013-05-31 05:33 pm (UTC)I suppose people in the South pronounce it with a long a.
mas-kahr-poh-nee
My point is, get rid of it. Everyone uses that chewy fondant nowadays.
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Date: 2013-05-31 05:59 pm (UTC)I don't think it's a southern thing and it's not a long a in Nascar. It's an 'a' as in "apple", instead of an 'a' as in "adore" (almost like an "uhh" but not quite)
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Date: 2013-05-31 04:32 am (UTC)Cochlea.
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Lugubrious.
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