#4500667 - 12/17/1902:31 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Originally Posted by bones
I also found recently when talking to my son that I have a hard time pronouncing "shape sorter" lately.
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So what exactly is a "shape sorter" used for? It seems like a rather vague term!
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#4500668 - 12/17/1902:32 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Třistatřiatřicet stříbrných křepelek přeletělo přes třistatřiatřicet stříbrných střech. (Three hundred and thirty three silver quails flew over three hundred and thirty three silver roofs.)
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#4500670 - 12/17/1902:40 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
[Re: NoFlyBoy]
Data: Some people , I know say ( date da ) others say ( dat ah ) which one is correct ?
As a Brit I would say date-ah.
I know Americans say dat-ah, but the character Data in Star Trek was always called date-ah for some reason (Maybe Picard named him...)
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#4500672 - 12/17/1902:56 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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That's interesting DM because I pronounce it as "date-ah" and I'm a Yank!
However, I don't quite understand why it's "aluminium" in the UK but "aluminum" in the US. That difference seems rather arbitrary to me.
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#4500674 - 12/17/1903:20 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Actually, dat-ah is singular and date-ah is plural.
v6, boNes
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#4500675 - 12/17/1903:21 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
[Re: PanzerMeyer]
I also found recently when talking to my son that I have a hard time pronouncing "shape sorter" lately.
v6, boNes
So what exactly is a "shape sorter" used for? It seems like a rather vague term!
It's that classic toy that is either a cube or a sphereoid with shapes cut into the surface where you insert blocks of the same shape into.
I should start saying "shape shifter" instead to introduce him to the weird world of scifi/fantasy!
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#4500677 - 12/17/1903:25 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Originally Posted by bones
It's that classic toy that is either a cube or a sphereoid with shapes cut into the surface where you insert blocks of the same shape into.
v6, boNes
Ah yes, I immediately visualized the toy as soon as you described it. I just had no idea it was called a shape sorter!
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#4500680 - 12/17/1903:32 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Actually, dat-ah is singular and date-ah is plural.
Um, no. Datum is the singular and data is the plural. As for pronunciation of the plural, data, I believe dictionaries say that either is/both are acceptable. Rather like toe-MAY-toe / toe-MAH-toe.
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#4500682 - 12/17/1903:36 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Here a tongue twister my friend who can't pronounce sheet correctly will have trouble with:
How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?
Or this one word from the classic Mary Poppins film.
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The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word as "a nonsense word, originally used esp. by children, and typically expressing excited approbation: fantastic, fabulous", while Dictionary.com says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English."
According to WIKI, it was a word first recorded in Oxford dictionary in 1931:
Actually, dat-ah is singular and date-ah is plural.
Um, no. Datum is the singular and data is the plural. As for pronunciation of the plural, data, I believe dictionaries say that either is/both are acceptable. Rather like toe-MAY-toe / toe-MAH-toe.
In Latin, yes, but in engineering in terms of information, dat-ah is singular and date-ah is plural.
Kind of like how really it should be viri when we talk about more than one virus, which is correct in Latin, but in English we still say viruses.
v6, boNes
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#4500692 - 12/17/1904:30 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Here a tongue twister my friend who can't pronounce sheet correctly will have trouble with:
How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?
Or this one word from the classic Mary Poppins film.
Google says:
Quote
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word as "a nonsense word, originally used esp. by children, and typically expressing excited approbation: fantastic, fabulous", while Dictionary.com says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English."
According to WIKI, it was a word first recorded in Oxford dictionary in 1931:
Here a tongue twister my friend who can't pronounce sheet correctly will have trouble with:
How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets?
Or this one word from the classic Mary Poppins film.
Google says:
Quote
The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word as "a nonsense word, originally used esp. by children, and typically expressing excited approbation: fantastic, fabulous", while Dictionary.com says it is "used as a nonsense word by children to express approval or to represent the longest word in English."
According to WIKI, it was a word first recorded in Oxford dictionary in 1931:
"Also, I would prefer a back seater over the extra gas any day. I would have 80 pounds of flesh to eat and a pair of glasses to start a fire." --F/A-18 Hornet pilot
#4500728 - 12/17/1907:00 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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Leicester is a local community that gets some folks riled up, as to how it should be pronounced. Is it Lee-cester or Lester? The founder of the settlement named it in honor of an Englishman, the Earl of Leicester and pronounced it Lester, but many locals insist it is Lee-cester because they live there and will call it what they please.
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#4500763 - 12/18/1901:03 AMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
[Re: NoFlyBoy]
The place name was lengthened in Victorian times to attract tourism: "contrived in 1869 as an early publicity stunt to give the station the longest name of any railway station in Britain".
As a resident of Worcestershire, I can confirm that it is mostly pronounced as 'Woostershere'. Rural vernacular would be 'Wussershyre' though authentic local accents are being diluted now due to population movement. Nearby market town Evesham, pronounced by older indigenous as 'Aysum'. I live in a village called Naunton Beauchamp pronounced 'Beecham'.
#4500850 - 12/18/1908:25 PMRe: Words that you can't pronounce no matter how hard you try ?
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