Pronunciation

Neha
Member • Jun 30, 2006

Pronunciation

The words which we see need not be pronounced in the same manner.There may be any alphabet silent or its quite possible that the entire word is pronounced in totally different manner..So the thread z dedicated to all those words that are pronounced differently.

Here i enter one from my side:

entrepreneur pronounced as an-tre-pre-neur

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Kaustubh Katdare

Administrator • Jun 30, 2006

'Resume'

Interesting thread !

There's one more, 'Resume'. It is pronounced as 'Rey-sue-may' and not 'rey-sue-um' as lot of us do.

Note that the word is written as resumé .

Hope it helps 😀

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Kaustubh Katdare

Administrator • Jul 10, 2006

"forte"

Yet another word - forte.

Lot of people pronounce it as for-tay. But the actual pronunciation is 'Fort'.

Forte is a French word meaning "strength".

Example: English is my forte. Note that this pronunciation is used when 'ability' is implied.

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aashima

Member • Jul 10, 2006

my turn...

nice thread neha...

well i have a word 'schedule'
its pronounced as " ske-dule' and not as 'shi-dule' at it formerly used to be pronounced...

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Kaustubh Katdare

Administrator • Jul 10, 2006

the Deutsche Bank ? ;-)

that's American's way of pronouncing 'Schedule'. You must have heard 'often' is pronounced as 'off-tan' while many pronounce it as 'off-un'.

Interestingly, not many of us knew that Deutsche is pronounced as 'Doi cha' or Doytch. 😀

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crook

Member • Jul 11, 2006

The_Big_K
Interestingly, not many of us knew that Deutsche is pronounced as 'Doi cha' or Doytch. 😀

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I did not know that. Thanks for the information !

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Srikanth

Member • Jul 15, 2006

Leme give u a word

Hi. I ve seen many ppl pronouncing fr the word "Director" as "Die - rector", but its a simple "D - rector"

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crook

Member • Jul 16, 2006

Education

Lot of people pronounce 'education' as 'edge-yoo-cation'. I the correct way to pronounce is "ae-dew-kay-tion".

Pronunciation does not matter as long as the listener understands what you are saying 😉

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aashima

Member • Jul 19, 2006

me too...

well here 's another concept...

we generally pronounce words like comment as " ka-ment" and colleague as " ka-leeg"....
the correct way of pronouncing these words though is "kau-ment" and "kau-leeg"

so... any comments 😉 😉

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Neha

Member • Aug 11, 2006

EXTEMPORE

its actually pronounced as "extempree"

The word means speak,perform without preparation😎

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virenjpatel

Member • Sep 13, 2006

nice blog to learn, nicer portal though

this is my first message.
its nice to have all engineers and only engineers interacting.

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Mayur Pathak

Member • Sep 13, 2006

One more word

Hello Viraj

Welcome aboard.

guys, lets learn another word: "Rendezvous"

the correct pronunciation is known to most of us (thanx to Simi Garewal)

Its "Róndi`voo"

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aashima

Member • Sep 15, 2006

mayurpathak
Hello Viraj

Welcome aboard.

guys, lets learn another word: "Rendezvous"

the correct pronunciation is known to most of us (thanx to Simi Garewal)

Its "Róndi`voo"
Adding a little more light to it, "Rendezvous" is a french word meaning "Conversation". In french, "..vous" is pronounced as "...voo".
A similar french word is "Enchante" pronounced as "Enshaunt" and it means "Celebration".

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Mayur Pathak

Member • Sep 15, 2006

another one

Next word, commonly mistaken by most of us

"Chaos"

its pronunced as "Keyós"

keep posting... enjoy

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