Stop saying "Demond" !!!

[LordGrover]

Sherlock Holmes. The l in Holmes is silent.
The BB-feckitty-C struggle to get it right 50% of the time.

[Einion Yrth]

northwest monkey said:

Neil H said:

Rosscow said:

northwest monkey said:

rohrl said:

Einion Yrth said:

northwest monkey said:

"Choritho" on every fking cooking programme.

Given that it's a Spanish sausage and that's how it's pronounced. What would you prefer?

Yeah, that's a bit like complaining about the pronunciation of the double Z in pizza.

My point is that until recently, it was always pronounced "chor-its-o" but is now fashionable for the "chor-eeth-o" pronunciation. Lots of words have foreign origins, however we have adapted them for the English language. You don't hear anybody asking for a glass of Jerez or Xeres rather than Sherry do you?

That's like the Arsenal fans that pronounce Cazorla "Cathorla"

It may be correct, but it makes you sound like a tt

Bit like "Porsh" or "Porsh-ah" when referring to the German car company. The latter makes you sound like a , however correct you are!

Exactly my point. "Choreethoh" may well be the correct pronunciation, but it marks you out as a bit of a .

IMHO of course

Chor-it-so is even worse, surely. It's neither correct, nor English: it's just plain wrong.

[schmunk]

crossy67 said:

I have friends who have friends in Bahrain, they like to pronounce it Bachrain with the flemmy bit where the ch is. They started calling it that because their friends do. I often wonder if they call it Glasgow or Galsgee as the locals do.

Or, indeed, Newcassle.

[Cliftonite]

T5XARV said:

Funny, I've only ever heard Tony Montana pronounce it 'cockaroach' - though the proportion of people advertising Dinning Tables for sale is truly worrying......
Go check your local Gumtree etc.....

Dinning tables? It is still 'Chester draws' that does it for me!

[RobinBanks]

Cliftonite said:

Dinning tables? It is still 'Chester draws' that does it for me!

The really crap Cheshire version of Art Attack

[AlexRS2782]

Suspention instead of suspension

[TDL933]

Haven't read all the way through the thread so apologies if it has been raised. A PAIR of binoculars. THE word is singular, if it was a pair it would be two binoculars. The word already tells you that the device is for two eyes. If it was for one eye it would be a monocular.

[TDL933]

LordGrover said:

Sherlock Holmes. The l in Holmes is silent.
The BB-feckitty-C struggle to get it right 50% of the time.

I remember Denny having an associated problem, and Alec Douglas-Home

[Hugo a Gogo]

TDL933 said:

Haven't read all the way through the thread so apologies if it has been raised. A PAIR of binoculars. THE word is singular, if it was a pair it would be two binoculars. The word already tells you that the device is for two eyes. If it was for one eye it would be a monocular.

a binoculars
a pants
a trousers
a sunglasses
?

as for the spanish 'th', pronounce it like the whole of Latin America, and forget all that lisping business

[catso]

br d said:

Cockaroach.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpHiZAne1aY

[TDL933]

Hugo a Gogo said:

a binoculars
a pants
a trousers
a sunglasses
?

as for the spanish 'th', pronounce it like the whole of Latin America, and forget all that lisping business

No No No

It is a binocular, as for the others before the advent of proper tailoring, each leg was separate as with drawers (i.e pulling up ones drawers, which were singular but unless the wearer only had one leg, came in pairs.
And I am sure you have heard on a monocle which was termed an eye-glass, when it was combined and used to correct vision for BOTH eyes it became a pair of glasses.

With regard to th in Espanol I live 40kms from the Spanish border and what the South Americans do is not what is correct in the Peninsula

[Hugo a Gogo]

there are two schools of thought on binoculars;

you say a binocular

everyone else says a pair of binoculars

(short for binocular telescopes)

[motco]

AlexRS2782 said:

Suspention instead of suspension

Rim blemishers for embellishers...

Emasculated for emaciated...

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Hugo a Gogo said:

there are two schools of thought on binoculars;

you say a binocular

everyone else says a pair of binoculars

(short for binocular telescopes)

Surely it's short for binocular telescope. (singular). Otherwise, what's the point of the "bi".

Is a pair of twins 2 people or 4?

[Hugo a Gogo]

binocular means relating to both eyes

two telescopes, joined together in such a way that they can be used by both eyes at the same time

a matched pair of telescopes

[TDL933]

Hugo a Gogo said:

binocular means relating to both eyes

two telescopes, joined together in such a way that they can be used by both eyes at the same time

a matched pair of telescopes

You seem to be unable to relate to what I said.
I will agree with you if you accept a pair of monoculars in your example.

[rohrl]

In Wales they say "a scissors" and it does my fking head in.

[LordGrover]

Better'n siswrn.

[Hugo a Gogo]

TDL933 said:

You seem to be unable to relate to what I said.
I will agree with you if you accept a pair of monoculars in your example.

if someone was using two individual 'normal telescopes' to look through with both eyes independently, then yeah, that would be a pair of monoculars

[TDL933]

Gnashes teeth. BUT a telescope is a Monocular, therefore two together make a binocular which is why the word was coined.

Hugo a Gogo said:

if someone was using two individual 'normal telescopes' to look through with both eyes independently, then yeah, that would be a pair of monoculars

To quote Chambers dictionary.

BINOCLE a telescope for use with both eyes at once.
BINOCULAR adj with two eyes; suitable for use with two eyes; stereoscopic---n. a binocular telescope (usually in pl) or microscope.

Although it says usually in pl that does not make it correct, it is sloppy usage

Edited by TDL933 on Tuesday 5th May 14:04

Edited by TDL933 on Tuesday 5th May 14:06