It's Chee-LEH not "lay". This is why americans are horrible foreign speakers

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Feb 27, 2020
4:25:44pm

chazen All-American

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chazen

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Are there any words you insist are pronounced wrong by everyone else?

frontrowcougar

2/27/20 10:29am

Chile, the country. If you are going to claim it should be Chee-lay, then you better be consistent and

slappy

2/27/20 10:32am

Haha RMs always do that. The best is when Chileans pronounce it anglicized, but

coug almighty

2/27/20 10:37am

Is it not okay then to say Uruguay as OO-du-gwhy rather than your-a-gway?

zerigke

2/27/20 10:42am

I guess my point is Chile seems to get special treatment from Americans, but other countries/cities don't. If you

slappy

2/27/20 10:47am

Well if you want to pronounce Melbourne the way the Aussie's do it...

CoachSpeak

2/27/20 10:54am

We should all revolt and call it how it is spelled

BigYfan

2/27/20 11:00am

The soft C and Z make the THs sound not the S

BigYfan

2/27/20 10:58am

Reminds me of the Never Stop Never Stopping bit about Connor's trip to Spain

slappy

2/27/20 11:01am

Thpain? Is it spelled Zpain or Cpain? Credibility lost. It's not hard to

TailgateU

2/27/20 11:07am

Please disclose where you served you mission.

slappy

2/27/20 11:13am

Washington. However, I knew how to pronounce Chile when I was 10.

TailgateU

2/27/20 12:09pm

Fair enough. I learned to say Chile in a Glaswegian accent, along with many other words. I was constantly

slappy

2/27/20 12:45pm

My great great great grandfather emigrated from scotland

ColonelMustard

2/27/20 6:01pm

For me it's simply preference.

Jamesiator

2/27/20 3:30pm

It's Chee-LEH not "lay". This is why americans are horrible foreign speakers

chazen

2/27/20 4:25pm

Boooo. Happon, Rassiya, and heaven only knows how you say China!

coug almighty

2/27/20 4:34pm

So you make an effort to correctly pronounce Chile like a local. But you likely make no attempt to correctly

slappy

2/27/20 5:06pm

People said Chipotle as "Chi-polt-tay". It's correctly said "chi-pote-lay" people.

RdF3

2/27/20 10:32am

This is a running joke in our house

buffgato

2/27/20 10:39am

Chi-pot-tel

Hinta

2/27/20 10:41am

Lots of words are pronounced differently depending on the conjugation

Spocougar

2/27/20 10:32am

you will love this then...

oryguncoug

2/27/20 10:33am

Not the first time I've seen some random youtube video be wrong!

frontrowcougar

2/27/20 10:39am

Comfterble. Drives me nuts.

Tokolosh

2/27/20 10:33am

Yeah, that is a weird one, but if you sound out com-for-table, you sound British

fredgarvin

2/27/20 10:35am

Reminds me of what a pirate once said when he walked into my bar

4th and Niner

2/27/20 10:39am

Tremonton. It’s Treh-mun-tun

Alister Mackenzie

2/27/20 10:34am

Clothes, people pronounce it as "close"

CoachSpeak

2/27/20 10:35am

A soft 'th' before another constant, seems pretty ticky-tac.

coug almighty

2/27/20 10:40am

That doesn't change the fact it is being pronounced incorrectly...

CoachSpeak

2/27/20 10:44am

But it does mean that the mis-pronunciation is hardly detectible.

coug almighty

2/27/20 10:54am

Well keep saying it incorrectly then.

CoachSpeak

2/27/20 10:55am

Haha I actually dont. Recently, I was explaining non-native english speakers how

coug almighty

2/27/20 11:16am

Alzheimers, if I spelled correct.

Count Cougar

2/27/20 10:35am

Werewolf. Everyone on earth except for me says it wrong. It should be

Jay Rick

2/27/20 10:36am

RE: Are there any words you insist are pronounced wrong by everyone else?

BigTex

2/27/20 10:36am

Ensign. “Ensun” is just fine.

Florwood

2/27/20 10:37am

GIF, but I'm learning to accept it.

Belboz

2/27/20 10:39am

RE: GIF, but I'm learning to accept it.

Gustav

2/27/20 10:46am

Another that gets me is Jew-ler-ee. NOOOOOOOO!

frontrowcougar

2/27/20 10:40am

That's the Brits' fault. In British English, they spell it jewellery. Not sure

fredgarvin

2/27/20 10:48am

I say cu-MU-la-tive instead of CU-mu-la-tive.

Cougarrr

2/27/20 10:41am

I sometimes pronounce the "L" in yolk or folk. I don't do it with walk or talk.

Cougarrr

2/27/20 10:42am

You HAVE to do it with caulk

StutterOfTheCougar

2/27/20 11:59am

Sauna is SOW-na not SAW-na

finnish_blue

2/27/20 10:43am

Sherbet. Only one "r" in there, unless you are from Wyoming

willkie40

2/27/20 10:47am

I had no idea I was doing this. Guilty as charged.

slappy

2/27/20 10:49am

So annoying when people say sherbert.

Mr. Belding

2/27/20 10:52am

Mount’n, as opposed to Moun-ten. Mount’n is correct.

Philosoraptor

2/27/20 10:53am

What about the Utah special: Mouw'-in

frontrowcougar

2/27/20 10:58am

That's not a thing

cougarnerd

2/27/20 11:02am

Here's an article on it:

frontrowcougar

2/27/20 11:08am

Unfortunately it is.

CoachSpeak

2/27/20 11:15am

My wife says ree-lator... instead of realtor.

BYUCPA

2/27/20 10:57am

Like rhymes with Skeletor?

finnish_blue

2/27/20 11:04am

The word Often should be pronounced "of'en". The T is silent.

zerigke

2/27/20 10:57am

Library as "libary" or nuclear as "nucular"

oryguncoug

2/27/20 11:07am

I had a student teacher at BYU who said SUCcesses. Like this class SUCKSesses.

deejo

2/27/20 11:07am

"I says" drives me nuts. It just screams hick and uneducated.

zerigke

2/27/20 11:10am

or "I seen". And another utah special, "we won them" or "I won you" instead of "we beat them" or "I beat you" at a game

indocoug

2/27/20 11:20am

Coupon - is it ku-pon or que-pon? I prefer ku-pon ...

stirmac

2/27/20 11:16am

crêpe...the little hat thingy makes it sound like strep, not drape.

BlooGeek

2/27/20 11:22am

Micromanagement should be 'microgement'

m0resn0w

2/27/20 11:55am

Ex-specially instead of Es-pecially

m0resn0w

2/27/20 11:56am

Contrite, as in broken heart and contrite spirit

atlcougar

2/27/20 2:36pm

I feel exactly the same way

frontrowcougar

2/27/20 5:08pm

I never noticed this. Thinking about it, I do it, too. I'll be the change!

Blue Mountains

2/27/20 5:28pm

It's a weird Mormon thing with that phrase. Don't know the origin

atlcougar

2/27/20 6:10pm

Rural. My brother says it roo-rul.

Schultz is back

2/27/20 3:36pm

“The”

Gerald-DeGroot

2/27/20 5:28pm

The Masseter muscle is always pronounced wrong!

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