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Words I Don't Know How To Pronounce..

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gettingonabit Sat 02-Jul-16 21:32:40

Like tuberose, for example. Is it tuber-ose, or tube-rose?

Another one is aspartame. Is it aspart-aym? Or aspart-amee?

And don't get me going on pedagogy Is it peda-godgy or peda-goggy?

And pedagogical? I don't even want to go there!

And as for uranus- when I was a kid it was always your-anus. Cue giggles round the classroom..

It took me until I was in College to realise that epitome is not pronounced eppy-tome and to this day I don't know if segway and segue are the same thing.

Any more you can think of, o wise ones?

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Jalima Tue 05-Jul-16 19:04:23

ma'am
see, I said it is possible hmm

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DaphneBroon Tue 05-Jul-16 19:12:09

Ve haff vays of making you zay it (but God knows what reaction you'd get at the Garden Centrehmm )

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Jalima Tue 05-Jul-16 19:38:06

hmm may try it out next time I go there, although I don't want to buy another one

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