Deteriorate/Deteriate

Deteriorate/Deteriate

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Eric Mc

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121,776 posts

264 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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It has come to my notice recently that hardly anyone can pronounce the word "Deteriorate" correctly anymore.

The words seems to come out as "Deteriate". How has this happened?

Standards are deteriating drastically.

SGirl

7,918 posts

260 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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Eric Mc said:
It has come to my notice recently that hardly anyone can pronounce the word "Deteriorate" correctly anymore.

The words seems to come out as "Deteriate". How has this happened?

Standards are deteriating drastically.
"Drasticly". wink

mattviatura

2,996 posts

199 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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Eric Mc said:
The words seems
Hmmm.

ShadownINja

76,253 posts

281 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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Some world class journalist in the Telegraph wrote that someone ran a stationary company. Presumably, the business was going nowhere. Or he manufactured brakes.

Eric Mc

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121,776 posts

264 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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mattviatura said:
Eric Mc said:
The words seems
Hmmm.
It was a pronunciation query - not a typo query.

I forgive anyone making mistakes (especially me smile), but this pronunciation is not a mistake. It seems to be what a lot of people think is correct. What I wanted to know was, why?

mattviatura

2,996 posts

199 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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Only kidding. It's the same as Haitch or Laura Norder. It just is, don't worry it annoys me as well.

Cock Womble 7

29,908 posts

229 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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It's pacifically cause many people litrelly can't prenounce words proply.

ShadownINja

76,253 posts

281 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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mattviatura said:
Laura Norder.
hehe Had to think about that one for a moment.

Eric Mc

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121,776 posts

264 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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ShadownINja said:
mattviatura said:
Laura Norder.
hehe Had to think about that one for a moment.
She's a very naughty girl.

Bill

52,472 posts

254 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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Eric Mc said:
pronunciation
Ironically, that's another one people struggle with

Justayellowbadge

37,057 posts

241 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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It makes me positively new colour.

Fume troll

4,389 posts

211 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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"Prolly", too. "Battry" and "Proply" really wind me up.

Cheers,

FT.

Catz

4,812 posts

210 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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It's in the "draw".

No it's not! It's in the drawer!

don4l

10,058 posts

175 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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Eric Mc said:
It has come to my notice recently that hardly anyone can pronounce the word "Deteriorate" correctly anymore.

The words seems to come out as "Deteriate". How has this happened?

Standards are deteriating drastically.
Rediculous!


soda

1,131 posts

160 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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I consider myself to be reasonably eloquent but one word always trips me up, comfortably.

I have no problem spelling it but saying it is a different matter, it comes out something like comderfably. I have no idea why this is and indeed it's only this word that causes me any difficulty.

Cock Womble 7

29,908 posts

229 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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Catz said:
It's in the "draw".

No it's not! It's in the drawer!
Oh please, don't start this one again. 'Drawer' and 'draw' are pronounced in exactly the same way.

A 'drawer' is someone who draws.

Eric Mc

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121,776 posts

264 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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Cock Womble 7 said:
Catz said:
It's in the "draw".

No it's not! It's in the drawer!
Oh please, don't start this one again. 'Drawer' and 'draw' are pronounced in exactly the same way.

A 'drawer' is someone who draws.
Accent sometimes dictates how things sound. "Deteriate" has nothing to do with accent. It's just laziness in not spotting the way the word is constructed and the letters that make it up.

redtwin

7,518 posts

181 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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soda said:
I consider myself to be reasonably eloquent but one word always trips me up, comfortably.

I have no problem spelling it but saying it is a different matter, it comes out something like comderfably. I have no idea why this is and indeed it's only this word that causes me any difficulty.
I know the feeling, I am comfortable with "comfortably", but I avoid at all costs saying the word "Brewery". Always comes out as "Bewry" or "Buewewry" or some of Scooby-Dooesque nonsense. hehe


ShadownINja

76,253 posts

281 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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Ok, how do you lot pronounce "chlorine"?

(It is pronounced "klor-reen" btw.)

And while we're at it, "urine".

Edited by ShadownINja on Thursday 25th November 15:42

Office_Monkey

1,967 posts

208 months

Thursday 25th November 2010
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Well, if you don't arks a pacific question, you won't get a answer.