segue pronunciation

Stanley Unwin was THE MOST hilarious wordsmith..how I miss his crazy speeches. He was so clever. I'm just going to pop over to youtube to see if he's on there at all.

Wasn't there a children's story called San Fairy Ann? Used to be on Jackanory?

Or pronunciations....

Had a look at an online pronunciation site and there are apparently three acceptable British pronuncations of 'eschew'!

Yep. you can " pronopunce" it if you like

Well, it's got an 'e' in it. And you pronopunce it es-chew (like 'chew food')

I still don't know how to pronounce 'eshew' Help anyone?

I think so many of us read a lot as children, but talked and listened a lot less, hence the problems.

I remember one of my uncles saying 'san fairy anne' when he just didn't care about something. I asked what he was saying and he spelled it like that for me, and said it was French for "It doesn't matter". He was right, but he'd never have pronounced it correctly if he'd known, as I learned later, that he was saying "ca ne faire rien'.

I had a problem with the word 'newsagent', pronouncing it in my head 'news a gent' ie with a short 'a' in the middle. Well, we called the place the paper shop where I grew up.

After retirement my FIL took a job as car park attendant at Blenheim Palace. He used to amuse us by talking about the Dobermans and Limerines (Dormobiles and limousines) he had seen.
My mother was partially deaf from childhood and would often get words wrong. She would talk about shayoze for chaos.
Not quite on the same subject, but as a child I used to see a sign saying 'Layby lavatories' and wondered how you could manage to wee lying down!

Our family always referred to 'being in your disherbelly' to mean being attired in your dressing gown, usually at an hour at which normal people would be up, washed and dressed.
It was a long time before I learned that it came from 'déshabillé' via the WW1 soldiers.
To return to the OP though, I have actually been on a Segway from which I fell and sustained a deep cut above my right eye, necessitating a trip to A&E and huge loss of dignity!

win had an LP out at one time, entitle 'Rotatey Diskers with Unwin'

Very funny, in fairly small doses. Deep joy...

Uwin was he the man that was on one of the 'Small Faces' albums? He did something about 'walking in the forry' ... I remember him - vaguely if that is even him!

Or Humphrey Littlebould with his woodwilly of simbrant tone, which causing a deep thraucus of the earthrobes are indeed a great joy? Oh folly!

Unwin? No - never heard of him...

Anyone remember the late, and very funny, Stanley Unwin?

I recall a collegue telling me that she ' had been made an escaped goat '.

Oh dear the italics partway through a word didn't work! Anyway you get the drift I'm sure ... just don't laugh till your soldiers hurt!

Because we mess around with words at home (secret language sort of thing) and talk about 'soldiers' for 'shoulders' and 'shursh' for 'church'; "chiddrens" for "children" - now that I am getting on a bit, I often slip up and do the same "in public" if those words come up, and people look at me blankly and I feel like a real fool. Anyway this thread reminds me of a joke I heard years ago: Man goes into the butcher and asks for "A pound of kidleys, please". Butcher replies "Do you mean kid^neys^?" Man answers "That's what I said, diddle I"? It works when you say it!

Then there's 'Byzantine', which has at least 4 different pronuciations....
Which do you prefer?

Some time, that should be.

Where is that edit button?

I said Fassy Mile for some before hearing facsimile, but the funniest was one of my nephews telling me that his Daddy was going to see an opera called Fiddle I O.

We do that too. My late SIL used to say 'tyra mysoo' for tiramasu, and we do it deliberately now! And some mispronounced French words have crept in as well - 'oyzox' for oiseaux, for example!

it's a family joke to pronounce some words wrong deliberatley, I did whilst peering in the supermarket freezer last week and asking DH if he wanted a chocolate "gate ux" (gateaux) the woman next to me smerked !

And what's happened to the 'f' in fifth and February? All newsreaders and announcers now seem to say 'fith' and 'Febuary'.

Assume. Ashume. Which is right? I was brought up with assume, but now a lot of people go for ashume.

I thought 'albeit' was 'allbite' for years.

I heard someone on the radio say albay. Took me a while to work out he meant albeit.
I also heard someone say pubelling travellick, though that clearly was a spoonerism.
My granny used to say corriodor and my Mum was always embarrassed that she had read battalion as bat-a-lion....