Anonymous
04/20/2015 21:36
Subject: Funny ways people mispronounce words or phrases,
mAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:20:17, I don't mean to be snobby, I'm just stating what I've observed. All the Ivy-League educated people I work with and am friends with say Fort. This "correction" swept through a few years ago, whether it should have or not.
20:17 here. So I am Ivy-educated too and also a former English teacher, and it does not impress me that this "correction swept through." Check dictionary sites. For-Tay is an acceptable pronunciation.
It swept through my friends from Harvard, Yale, etc. it may not have swept through yours but I'd bet heavily that some of the people you know or work with notice when someone pronounces the e.
Anonymous
04/20/2015 21:17
Subject: Funny ways people mispronounce words or phrases,
Anonymous wrote:20:17, I don't mean to be snobby, I'm just stating what I've observed. All the Ivy-League educated people I work with and am friends with say Fort. This "correction" swept through a few years ago, whether it should have or not.
20:17 here. So I am Ivy-educated too and also a former English teacher, and it does not impress me that this "correction swept through." Check dictionary sites. For-Tay is an acceptable pronunciation.
Anonymous
04/20/2015 21:02
Subject: Funny ways people mispronounce words or phrases,
Coworker says "arr" instead of "hour." Drives me nuts.
Anonymous
04/20/2015 20:20
Subject: Funny ways people mispronounce words or phrases,
20:17, I don't mean to be snobby, I'm just stating what I've observed. All the Ivy-League educated people I work with and am friends with say Fort. This "correction" swept through a few years ago, whether it should have or not.
Anonymous
04/20/2015 20:17
Subject: Funny ways people mispronounce words or phrases,
Anonymous wrote: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
Either you have written this several times or several people have written this, but I checked it out on m-w.com and it is perfectly acceptable to say for-tay for all meanings of the word forte. I have literally *never* heard anyone say forte as "fort." The language does evolve. People might not like it but that's how it is. Go ahead and keep saying "for-tay" whenever you want! I'm going to. I always have. And the dictionary stands behind me.
Anonymous
04/20/2015 16:41
Subject: Funny ways people mispronounce words or phrases,
Anonymous wrote:Ideer for idea.
my MIL says warsher and dryer.