Pro Nun Ci Ation

[AFpheonix]

I went to a restaurant with a friend and he pronounced "chipotle" chi-po-tul .

I tried to correct him, but he was certain he was right and what can you do? <shrug>

I intentionally pronounce chipotle as "chi-pootle", but that's because there was a particular Jack In The Box commercial that I found particularly amusing, and my humor tends to be reference humor.

[NightWolf]

Oh, I got a nice new one today.

Have any of you ever used that nifty Anti Virus program called Nordic?

I've never heard of it, but it must be that fancy new European AV product. Amazing! I didn't know the country exported it!

I'm sure they meant Norton, but you know people and computer terminolgy.

[Freaking_Flyer]

uh huh...those fools go on vacations too!

SC: I want to fly to tortilla!
Tortilla? do you perhaps mean Tortolla?

SC: Need a flight to Provo!
As in the state of Utah?
SC: NO! it is an island out in the water somewhere!
Oh, I see...an island surrounded by water, eh? <Is there any other kind?>
SC: Yeah, it is down in the carry-be-ann <Caribbean> somewhere
Perhaps you meant Provodinciales or the Turks and Caicos?
SC: Yeah, one of those two places sound like it <They are the same place, one is a city name and the other is the island chain the city resides on>
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Another rocket scientist wanted to fly to Maconga but had no clues where it was. In reading from a hand written note verbatum that he was provided with, he had run the words Macon and the abbreviation for the state of Georgia together....only came to realize this after he mentioned it was somewhere in Georgia or Abalama<SIC>

[Imogene]

Oh, I got a nice new one today.

Have any of you ever used that nifty Anti Virus program called Nordic?

I've never heard of it, but it must be that fancy new European AV product. Amazing! I didn't know the country exported it!

I'm sure they meant Norton, but you know people and computer terminolgy.

Yup, Nordic Antivirus, comes in, loots your computer for pirated stuff, then burns it all (to disc) and rapes any porn you have on the computer. But that's just the 'Viking' subsystem. Haven't heard anything about the Saxon subsystem yet. I hear it's coming soon, though.

[angelkirie]

I work at Ikea. FORGET pronouncing anything right. All the products are named after obscure swedish bridges, roads, dams, even people!

My favorite is the line of desks named Jerker. (yerker) But 15 times a day some numbnuts has to come in and snicker "I want the Jer-ker Desk" *snicker snicker* *punches friend* friend: "ya Jer-ker" haha.

[Jester]

Hi from Phoenix (occasionally pronounced as "Phone-iks" by snowbirds)!

I've even heard Tempe pronounced as "temp"!

Howdy!

At the hotel I work at, we have where we are from on our nametags below our names. Every now and then, someone will ask me "Where is Temple?" To which I reply "It is a university in the Philadelphia area, actually. Also a small town in Texas, I believe. Myself, I am from Tempe. "

[PhotoChick]

Myself, I am from Tempe. "

I don't think I'd ever call it Temple.... thats just not reading properly but I'd be tempted to call it "temp". How is it pronounced?

*Edit: "tempted" hehe.. noticed that when I was rereading my post. Didn't do it on purpose, but it is kinda catchy.

[Jester]

Well, people misread it every now and then. And for the pronunciation of my home town, just read back a few posts.

[Becks]

No one wants to hear how my fiance and others have mangled the pronunciations of Oconomowoc, Mukwanago and Waukesha. :shudders: I still haven't completely recovered.

[skeptic53]

So many easterners pronounce it o-ruh-GAHN that the University of Oregon sells window stickers that say "ORYGUN"

[Bella_Vixen]

Yup, Nordic Antivirus, comes in, loots your computer for pirated stuff, then burns it all (to disc) and rapes any porn you have on the computer. But that's just the 'Viking' subsystem. Haven't heard anything about the Saxon subsystem yet. I hear it's coming soon, though.

I laughed so hard, I choked.

[Phone Jockey]

a customer yesterday looking at laptops saw "AMD Turion 64" on the spec tag and pronounced it "ADM Turn-Me-On."

Maybe he was simply stating what the laptop did for him?