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A teacher who pronounces library as "liberry"
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Anonymous
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It's like nails on a chalkboard. Now the kids are saying it.
Ok, or not? |
Anonymous
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Poor teachers get criticized at every turn. It’s no wonder so many are quitting.
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Anonymous
| My 12th grade English teacher pronounced Flaubert as flaw-Bert, rhymes with Robert. |
Anonymous
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Regional dialects are one of the beautiful things about our vast nation. I’ve loved living all over and traveling to places where I could enjoy the local way of speaking one of our primary shared languages. There are many words that are commonly mispronounced despite the speaker knowing the proper spelling and pronunciation. It’s a kind of colloquialism.
If the teacher spelled it ‘liberry,’ then I might be concerned. Being concerned about a widespread misusage that is colloquially used in most of the country is very anal retentive. |
Anonymous
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Get them to say "nuclear" and see if they call it "nucular". |
Anonymous
lol! Oh my god that would drive me nuts. I wouldn't say anything to her, but I would sure as hell make sure my kid knows that we pronounce it li-brar-y in our family. 
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Anonymous
| My college calculus professor pronounced Euler as oiler. |
Anonymous
Sorry, I meant to write U-ler. Oiler is the correct pronunciation. |
Anonymous
| More than ok. I applaud regional pronunciations, and code switch in multiple settings. If having your kids speak in ways that are aligned with your own regional pronunciations is important to you, then you should emphasize that at home. |
Anonymous
Maybe that teacher didn’t know Flaubert well, but was well versed in Emerson, Frost, Marquez, Shakespeare, Kafka, Lee, Murakami, Dickinson, Hughes, Fitzgerald, Hurston, Hugo, Wilde, Achebe, Atwood, Pound, Walker, Hemingway, Brooks, etc. My point being, of course, that we can’t judge that teacher from one little slip-up. Can we give teachers a break? |
Anonymous
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Is it really considered to be a regional dialect? I think the word " fyoo- cha" for "future" is a regional dialect, and surely trouble for a spelling test (!) , but "liberry" is just a wrong pronunciation.
What's next? No periods or commas? |
Anonymous
| I had a couple teachers who used this pronunciation when I was growing up in DC, and yet I have always said “library.” NBD |
Anonymous
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OP it only grates on you because you associate it with being lower class, which you’re trying hard to have your kid not be.
In reality, this isn’t going to have any long term impact on your kid’s socio-economic status or their ability to pronounce “library” correctly so just stop torturing yourself. |
Anonymous
| I say lie-berry |
Anonymous
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Op how do you pronounce guillotine?
My teachers always said gill- vs gee- and I was raised here |