Funiculi Funicular!

[sacramentalist]

Words I dislike:

Inure
Funicular
Palimpsest

Bonus: Awkward has too many w's.

Comments

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

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.

[quickly-9.livejournal.com]

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.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. I forgot about the Canadian vowel shift.

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.

[quickly-9.livejournal.com]

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)

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

It's not really a shift. We just don't stretch vowels. That's where that whole thing about "aboot". Which we don't say, PS.

[quickly-9.livejournal.com]

Aren't pronunciations fun? We should be having this discussion by phone (I mean phooooooooooone)

[mandydax.livejournal.com]

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.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

Damn you Wil Wheaton!