How Do You Pronounce Across?

[jeffpugh]

I've also heard "sangwhich"... lawl.

[MIKolbe]

[quote name='Lil Red' date='06 July 2010 - 05:07 PM' timestamp='1278450442' post='2138614']
no. tell him to have a sense of humor.
[/quote]
He's a self made multi-millionaire... he can buy one if he wants one.

[quote name='Sacred Music Man' date='06 July 2010 - 05:48 PM' timestamp='1278452927' post='2138639']
I've also heard "sangwhich"... lawl.
[/quote]
YES!!!

I have heard that too!!

and

Liberry...instead of library

[Hilde]

Do they say strawbrary then?

[MIKolbe]

no

[Winchester]

[quote name='MIkolbe' date='06 July 2010 - 03:43 PM' timestamp='1278445398' post='2138555']
is "ACROST" acceptable?

When spoken, it wears on my last nerve..and my boss says it... and I flinch every time he says it.

Then, I have an associate who says STRAWLS, instead of STRAWS.

What the heck?
[/quote]
Yankee elitist.

[Nihil Obstat]

This isn't the same thing really, but it bugs me when the British accent adds an r noise to the end of a word like idea. "Idear"....... just don't like it.

Edited July 7, 2010 by Nihil Obstat

[MIKolbe]

YES!!!!!!

that bugs me too...

or when they pronounce Sade SHA-DAY), the singer, as (SHAR-DAY)

[Marie-Therese]

[quote name='Nihil Obstat' date='07 July 2010 - 09:27 AM' timestamp='1278509267' post='2138882']
This isn't the same thing really, but it bugs me when the British accent adds an r noise to the end of a word like idea. "Idear"....... just don't like it.
[/quote]

I had a high school teacher who was most decidedly NOT British who said "idear." She also said "pacific" instead of "specific." It made me want to punch her. A friend of mine used to mock her incessantly, it was hilarious.

[Lil Red]

[quote name='MIkolbe' date='07 July 2010 - 04:45 AM' timestamp='1278503158' post='2138869']
He's a self made multi-millionaire... he can buy one if he wants one.
[/quote]
give him the book and tell him to buy one then.

[Not A Mallard]

Holy croutons, I've never heard "across" pronounced "acrost". That's a sign of the end...

[Ed Normile]

LOl, I travel the country and have heard all these pronunciations, ones I hate, Ashphalt instead of Asphalt, Zink instead of sink, Fur instead of For, the list goes on. Try not to obsess on it, I used to point out things like this thinking I was being either helpful or edifying, it just seems to insult those who talk like that. Ya gotta lub thems that spake that way, fur show.

ed