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19th Feb 2021, 6:00 pm | #41 |
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Re: Mis-heard and mis- pronounced connected with our hobby.
Impedance as Impy-Dance.
But what about the PN diodes designed to clamp at a specified voltage when reverse biased? Are these Zeaner diodes, or Zenna diodes? |
19th Feb 2021, 6:03 pm | #42 |
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It is quite common for people here in Geordieland to pronounce the word 'nuclear' (as in 'Nuclear Power') as 'Nucular'.
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19th Feb 2021, 6:05 pm | #43 |
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Yes, as opposed to the sintered-bronze things that the gears in the gearbox used.
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19th Feb 2021, 6:11 pm | #44 |
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My dad could never say certificate. It was always cerstificate. My young grandson can't say looks like
It's always look likes. Aub
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19th Feb 2021, 6:16 pm | #45 |
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Anions and cations pronounced to rhyme with 'onions'
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19th Feb 2021, 6:17 pm | #46 |
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I don't think there's anything peculiar about pronouncing words in a foreign language in a way more commensurate with your native language's mouthfeel and normal sounds. It is, after all why London is Londres in France and so on.
Rather like the way some people pronounce homage in an affected French way ("ommahge" rather than "hommidge") despite it being an anglicised word since the middle ages, I find the exaggerated pronunciation of foreign brand names in the ('correct') pronunciation jarring and on occasion confusing when in the middle of an English sentence when all the other sounds are recognisable. Despite spending a lot of time with them recently, every time I say 'Uher' I seem to do it differently! The combination of an initial U followed by H is intriguing in English. Does 'You-her' feel more comfortable than 'Oo-er'? Possibly a bit Frankie Howerd... |
19th Feb 2021, 6:20 pm | #47 | |
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When I was very young, I thought there was a thing called an aportable radio. The lady next door to the house where I grew our always put the "emergency heater" on before she bathed her children. Her daughter once showed me a radio and said it had Long-Wave, Medium-Wave and South-Wave
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19th Feb 2021, 6:32 pm | #48 |
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I had a phone call one day and the caller just said “duemenvidjos” as one word. I was stumped trying to work out what he said. I queried what he meant and he just repeated it so I tried to work out what it was. Due, as in money due, Jew as meaning a Jewish person, or dew, as wet grass in the morning. I guessed the second part might be men, so Jew would seem to fit but why call me when I’m a repair man. Eventually, after asking him to speak slowly and leave a space between words so I could understand, I worked out that he as saying “ do you mend videos”. He arrived with a chewed up VHS tape that was beyond any form of repair as it was all loose in a carrier bag.
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19th Feb 2021, 7:02 pm | #49 |
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It's also amusing when people 'correct' you when you are pronouncing something correctly. It's best to ignore it. As an example I'm thinking of one recently where my Dad says McCartney but the name is McCarthy! It's also interesting where the name is in a foreign language and you work with native speakers of that language. They sometimes ask why do you not pronounce it in the English way. When you reply it's not an English word they then tell you that the pronunciation in their language is wrong anyway, even though you were trying. Sometimes you can't win.
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19th Feb 2021, 7:04 pm | #50 |
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Or Hylda Baker...
You mean they're not stiff kits? When I first stated meddling in this hobby I used to call capacitors capissitors. I had a friend the same age who had also got interested who called resistors resissitors. I had great trouble with superheterodyne which gained even more syllables. Having said that we were still in short trousers (though we must have looked ridiculous in the 6th Form common room ), |
19th Feb 2021, 7:05 pm | #51 |
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When we had our Philips Electronics Engineer's kits in the mid 60s, my mate always used to refer to capacitators.
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19th Feb 2021, 7:18 pm | #53 |
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I've heard several people from the North-East call submersible vessels 'sumbarines'.
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19th Feb 2021, 7:19 pm | #54 |
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I made a right pig's ear of ororrorrorary in a thread a few months back....
orrery? David
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Another common technical Geordism is the pronunciation of 'Film', which frequently comes out as 'Fillum'. |
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19th Feb 2021, 7:36 pm | #56 | |
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Colin (not pronounced "curlin"). |
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19th Feb 2021, 7:50 pm | #57 |
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I do, however, get irritated when people pronounce my surname (German in origin) to rhyme with "roll" rather than "doll". Even though the latter is, of course, only an approximation of the German pronunciation, it's close enough.
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Loewe is pronouced like lerver but it is the German word for lion.
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19th Feb 2021, 7:52 pm | #59 |
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An audiologist friend was amused when one of his clients needing a frequency-range assessment said she had been treated for a blocked Euston Station Tube; he explained to her that it was "Eustachian Tube".
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19th Feb 2021, 8:11 pm | #60 |
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The Moog synthesiser, although I can recall "Tomorrow's World" getting it right when it was shown on the programme as a new invention.
More German kit to add to Ted's Neutrik: Neumann and Behringer (with apologies to Neumann, for mentioning them both in the same sentence). Last edited by m0cemdave; 19th Feb 2021 at 8:25 pm. |