Funny ways people mispronounce words or phrases,

[Anonymous]

IN- surance (emphasizing the "in") instead of in -sur-ance. I know people who say it the first way. Not many, thankfully. It's awful and hick sounding.

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Anonymous wrote:forte is actually pronounced fort not fort-ay...a lot of people get this wrong

I didn't know that. Thanks!

It irritates me when I hear the word foyer pronounced "foy-yay," sometimes with the accent on the first syllable, sometimes on the second. I pronounce it foy-er with the accent on the first syllable. It irritates me so much that I've done some Googling on the subject and found that all pronunciations are acceptable. So I have to let it go.

They may all be acceptable but foy-yay is preferred.

The difficulty with forte is that pianoforte includes the e sound as does forte (loud) in a musical score. Forte as in "It's my forte," is from the Latin and has a different meaning.

It's not preferred by me. The word has been used in English long enough that the French pronunciation is pretentious.

And "forte" meaning "strength" is from French. Originally Latin, I suppose, but if you're pronouncing it "fort," that's the French pronunciation. In Latin or Italian, you would pronounce the e.

[Anonymous]

When I was in college and my dad and I filled out the FAFSA each year, he always called it the "FAFSE," like "faf-see." Recently, I helped him and my brother fill out the FAFSA as he's starting college in the fall. Still calls it the FAFSE.

[Anonymous]

9:57, the long-used foreign word approach doesn't work. Do you pronounce the T in fillet? The settled American pronunciation of that word doesn't and the main American pronunciation is foy-ay.

[Anonymous]

Foy-yay vs Foy-er

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/foyer

I grew up with Foy-yay.

Having taken music lessons for years I pronounce forte as for-tay. Any other sounds ridiculous to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Foy-yay vs Foy-er

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/foyer

I grew up with Foy-yay.

Having taken music lessons for years I pronounce forte as for-tay. Any other sounds ridiculous to me.

I can see why but they are different words, the fortes.

[Anonymous]

I say "a whole nother".

DH says "bow-tique".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Foy-yay vs Foy-er

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/british/foyer

I grew up with Foy-yay.

Having taken music lessons for years I pronounce forte as for-tay. Any other sounds ridiculous to me.

forte is pronounced fort-ay when used referring to music. but not when used referring to a thing at which one excels

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Anonymous wrote:I say "a whole nother".

DH says "bow-tique".

You say "a whole nother" for what word?

[Anonymous]

I have always messed up sayings. I can't remember the whole thing, so I just try to think of something that makes sense.
Like cooking with... Oil? Fire? Gas?
Hindsight is... 50/50. (yes, it should be 20/20...)
The other day I was saying the pledge of allegiance at my kids school, and I said "one nature under God"

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Anonymous wrote:I say "a whole nother".

DH says "bow-tique".

You say "a whole nother" for what word?

Either another (another story is...)
Or to be exact and get away from nothe:
Completely different story

[Anonymous]

My father says i-dear instead of idea. I don't know where that pronunciation comes from.

[Anonymous]

Forte --- wow, I never knew that -- thanks PP! I learned something! But it's going to sound so strange to pronounce it without the "ay" at the end. I honestly don't think I've ever heard it pronounced that way.

A few years ago I was corrected on my pronunciation of the word "realtor". I would say "real-a-tor". It's just "real-tor". I felt so stupid that I'd said it wrong all these years!

I also found out a few years ago that it's improper to say "myriad of". You should just say "myriad". As in: "There are myriad ways to say the same thing."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Forte --- wow, I never knew that -- thanks PP! I learned something! But it's going to sound so strange to pronounce it without the "ay" at the end. I honestly don't think I've ever heard it pronounced that way.

A few years ago I was corrected on my pronunciation of the word "realtor". I would say "real-a-tor". It's just "real-tor". I felt so stupid that I'd said it wrong all these years!

I also found out a few years ago that it's improper to say "myriad of". You should just say "myriad". As in: "There are myriad ways to say the same thing."

Myriad is actually both a noun and an adjective. You were fine before.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Forte --- wow, I never knew that -- thanks PP! I learned something! But it's going to sound so strange to pronounce it without the "ay" at the end. I honestly don't think I've ever heard it pronounced that way.

A few years ago I was corrected on my pronunciation of the word "realtor". I would say "real-a-tor". It's just "real-tor". I felt so stupid that I'd said it wrong all these years!

I also found out a few years ago that it's improper to say "myriad of". You should just say "myriad". As in: "There are myriad ways to say the same thing."

Myriad is actually both a noun and an adjective. You were fine before.

Really?! I just looked it up and Merriam-Webster says:
Usage Discussion of MYRIAD
Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective. As the entries here show, however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century. The noun myriad has appeared in the works of such writers as Milton (plural myriads) and Thoreau (a myriad of), and it continues to occur frequently in reputable English. There is no reason to avoid it.

So I was right all along! Ha! I'm telling my husband