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Privateer

Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:02 am Post subject:

'spee-sheez'? That makes it sound like you're drunk.

swetepete

Joined: 01 Nov 2006
Location: a limp little burg

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:33 am Post subject:

"shpeee-sheej."

sillywilly

Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Canada.

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 11:51 am Post subject:

Spee-sees

Ody

Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: over here

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:42 pm Post subject:

Big_Bird wrote:

If you're British you pronounce it correctly; if you're
American, you pronounce it with a funny accent.

heehee, cute. Laughing

seriously though, America is a pretty big continent from where, especially in the States, there's a great variety of accents. i've heard it pronounced both ways there.

how do Brits pronounce it?
(solly that i can't be bothered to register who's British and who isn't in this thread)

Big_Bird

Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject:

Ody wrote:

how do Brits pronounce it? [size=9]

welll....er....I'm not sure exactly how we pronounce it - but I do know it must be the correct way. Wink

twg

Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:06 pm Post subject:

Ody wrote:

how do Brits pronounce it?

With their pinkie finger extended while holding their tea cups

Peeping Tom

Joined: 15 Feb 2006

Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject:

Junior wrote:

"spee-seas" is correct. As in, 'specific".

And who made this non-arbitrary rule?

Btw, I pronounce it the way you say is "correct," but I can't think of any logical reasoning why the alternate pronunciation, used and understood by millions of native English speakers, would be inherently "incorrect."

Hyeon Een

Joined: 24 Jun 2005

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 10:30 am Post subject:

Junior wrote:

"spee-seas" is correct. As in, 'specific".

How do you say "specific"? "Spee-seas-ific" ? that sounds superfantastic to me.

Anyway I either say spee-seas or spee-shes but I don't remember and I thought about it too long and I can't work it out anymore. If you see what I mean.

Anyway with regard to "h" all I can tell whoever asked is that in Britain:

Commoners say "haitch"
Educated say "aitch"

Boodleheimer

Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject:

Hyeon Een wrote:

Commoners say "haitch"
Educated say "aitch"

ah. good, i got me an edumacated boyfriend.

Junior

Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject:

Peeping Tom wrote:

Junior wrote:

"spee-seas" is correct. As in, 'specific".

Because "C" is pronounced "s" only when followed by -ia, (as is special)
or "io" (as in Ascencion") and a few other combinations. But not ie.

If you really think anything and everything is Ok, then why not include all the other mispronunciations, slurred words, bad spelling, etc. that emanates from the dumb and uneducated.

Look! I just spelled "arbitree" wrong! Why not include it in the dictionary? I am an english speaker and I have used that spelling. the spelling is in use, so it should be allowed. Why not?

This is the sort of nonsense that results in silly adolescent words like "pwned" being put in the dictionary. Stupid.

Zyzyfer

Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:12 pm Post subject:

Junior wrote:

Peeping Tom wrote:

Junior wrote:

"spee-seas" is correct. As in, 'specific".

pwnt y0 wtflolbbq

Hanson

Joined: 20 Oct 2004

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 9:23 pm Post subject:

A fair while a-yonder me learned nay to argue o'er pronunciation, aye?

Boodleheimer

Joined: 10 Mar 2006
Location: working undercover for the Man

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:03 pm Post subject:

Junior wrote:

Because "C" is pronounced "s" only when followed by -ia, (as is special)
or "io" (as in Ascencion") and a few other combinations. But not ie.

you mean "ascension"? that's an s.

does that relate to the "i before e except after c" rule?

species isn't a plural for specy. if it were, then i'd say speesees as well. or even spehsees.

my cambridge dictionary agrees with speesheez, with no other possibilities added.

thebum

Joined: 09 Jan 2005
Location: North Korea

Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:39 pm Post subject:

Hanson wrote:

A fair while a-yonder me learned nay to argue o'er pronunciation, aye?

i don't like to argue either. i was just curious.

Junior

Joined: 18 Nov 2005
Location: the eye

Posted: Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:32 am Post subject:

[quote="KWhitehead"]

Quote:

you mean "ascension"? that's an s.

No. The island that is owned by Britain. Ascencion.

Quote:

species isn't a plural for specy

I meant that " specify" is of the same word stock. If you specify, name a newly discovered plant, it becomes recognised as a species. Different forms of the the same verb: specification, specified. Don't tell me: you pronounce it " speshification?"?? or is that just after you had some shoju?

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