tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post4546909776991555792..comments2024-03-10T16:42:34.106-04:00Comments on Collecting Children's Books: The Schwa Goes Here?Peter D. Sierutahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09301507180150710089noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-67768163132095341912011-03-10T21:57:08.172-05:002011-03-10T21:57:08.172-05:00Good information, a number of thank you to the aut...Good information, a number of thank you to the author. It’s puzzling to me now, on the whole, the usefulness as well as significance is overpowering. Significantly thanks again and best of luck!head lice causeshttp://www.naturalheadlicetreatment.net/head-lice-symptoms-general-causes-and-common-symptoms/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-40895304045310995312010-04-27T13:52:29.917-04:002010-04-27T13:52:29.917-04:00How about "stow-mack" (stomach). Got me ...How about "stow-mack" (stomach). Got me as a little kid!catz37https://www.blogger.com/profile/00487600354576436545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-54553382797566341882010-02-04T10:38:37.999-05:002010-02-04T10:38:37.999-05:00I've always called it the Jeopardy Syndrome as...I've always called it the Jeopardy Syndrome as if “What is, Alex I believe it’s pronounced, ….. “ <br /><br />In college I had a professor who told us about how he was confused by how the “ Sux Indians” that he read about sounded a lot like the “Sue Indians” that his teacher was talking about.<br /><br />I know I have a lot of these, but can’t seem to remember any right now….Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-75957345337495607362010-01-28T22:36:52.665-05:002010-01-28T22:36:52.665-05:00Can't resist adding another comment to this gr...Can't resist adding another comment to this great post, Peter.<br /><br />As someone who mispronounced words all through school, I was thrilled finally to hear one of my English profs in college mangle a word that even I knew how to pronounce properly. He was talking about the constellation Orion (it was mentioned in a short story we were discussing) and he pronounced it OR-ee-un. I laughed myself silly over that one. <br /><br />I'm giving you a nod over on my blog, <a href="http://mybrainonbooks.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">My Brain on Books</a>Joanne R. Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08076959910493197255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-35922807659116625032010-01-16T10:37:37.038-05:002010-01-16T10:37:37.038-05:00I love this post. I still have trouble with the wo...I love this post. I still have trouble with the word assuage. :)<br /><br />I remember getting a spelling bee word wrong because I didn't understand the way it was pronounced. Acknowledge... the lady said EGG-knowledge and really emphasized the EGGyness of the beginning. I was thrown for a loop! Needless to say, I got it wrong and was disqualified. <br /><br />My little sister once came home from school with a library book with her new favorite flower, "beautiful or-CHITS," and I had to suppress laughter and tell her the proper way to say orchids. What a cutie!Carmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08513120694616841370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-31553336299277950562010-01-16T10:34:04.104-05:002010-01-16T10:34:04.104-05:00sword (I pronounced the silent w...in class as a c...sword (I pronounced the silent w...in class as a child...soo humiliating!) and Jacobean (I read a LOT of Robert Louis Stevenson as a child).<br /><br />Sword I never again mispronounced after that day, but I will probably never stop stumbling over Jacobean...<br /><br />The online Merriam-Websters has an audio function that "speaks" the word, which is a fabulous idea...Susan in Bostonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13078598375711946460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-15028355925326546562010-01-12T15:13:31.881-05:002010-01-12T15:13:31.881-05:00As I read this I am listening to a children's...As I read this I am listening to a children's librarian talk about "heroes" and hero-eens".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-70905299603015468882010-01-12T10:41:36.135-05:002010-01-12T10:41:36.135-05:00deficit and sword. The first was mispronounced in...deficit and sword. The first was mispronounced in college in front of my Dean of Admissions. Sigh.<br />Chris in NYAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-57936857214869763062010-01-11T17:15:23.543-05:002010-01-11T17:15:23.543-05:00Oh, and I think I was married with children before...Oh, and I think I was married with children before I found out that merino wool is pronounced muh-REE-no and not MERR-i-no.<br /><br />Helen Schinskehschinskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316478950862562594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-49226476744497760642010-01-11T13:42:05.511-05:002010-01-11T13:42:05.511-05:00Chaos was my word to mispronounce, when I describe...Chaos was my word to mispronounce, when I described something as "Chay-otic" to my mother. In "Clue," I also read "Colonel Mustard" as "Colonial Mustard," but I don't think I ever said that one out loud.Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10511914877644410598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-90458462068665740782010-01-10T16:07:10.324-05:002010-01-10T16:07:10.324-05:00Peter, you've flushed us out! Obviously no wo/...Peter, you've flushed us out! Obviously no wo/man is an is-land (and that mispronunciation still makes me smile).<br /><br />Are those of us who did not avail ourselves of the dictionary's pronunciation guide the literary equivalents of folks who buy new electronic gadgetry and never consult the accompanying manuals?<br /><br />My husband (who faithfully looked everything up in the dictionary) still corrects my pronunciation, often, unfortunately, for words where he's corrected me before. <br /><br />I just learned yesterday evening that I've been mispronouncing the first Newbery Award winner's last name for years. He preferred the Dutch pronunciation of loan - not loon, like the bird.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-12710217639089337672010-01-09T21:52:48.463-05:002010-01-09T21:52:48.463-05:00I was embarassingly old when I realized that the D...I was embarassingly old when I realized that the DEPEN-dable (rhymes with table) Employment Agency probably didn't pronounce its name that way. For some reason, I liked to read that sign to myself as a child as we drove past it.susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12000470374101306070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-3514096204108802522010-01-09T10:50:59.478-05:002010-01-09T10:50:59.478-05:00Draught. For years pronounced it DROT, not realizi...Draught. For years pronounced it DROT, not realizing it was "draft."Seanhttp://blog.seanwbyrne.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-70963280332199418752010-01-08T21:31:04.885-05:002010-01-08T21:31:04.885-05:00I also thought Penelope was Pen-a-lope (in 9th gra...I also thought Penelope was Pen-a-lope (in 9th grade while reading the Odyssey), despite growing up with Penelope Pitstop. Never read that one, so I didn't realize it was spelled the same way.<br /><br />I was sure "detritus" was pronounced DET-trit-us until I was in my 30s. Embarrassed myself by saying it that way to an editor (and insisting I was correct). Oops.Daughter Number Threehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08171356533232458827noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-59467988153554622022010-01-08T20:22:01.879-05:002010-01-08T20:22:01.879-05:00When I said "eppy-tome," my brother told...When I said "eppy-tome," my brother told me loftily "An epi-tome is a little book on top of a big book." (However, he himself, some years earlier, had been laughed at for talking about the "flash fleweds" in one of the Happy Hollister books -- which were of course "flash floods.")<br /><br />I also had trouble with L'Engle's Dennys (which I believe has two N's) -- I knew Dennis from Dennis-the-Menace, Denis from Nesbit's Would-be-Goods, and *possibly* even Denys, but not Dennys! <br /><br />And, of course, I thought misled was the past tense of misle, and therefore pronounced my-zuld. <br /><br />Helen Schinskehschinskehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10316478950862562594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-91211557200262670292010-01-08T05:39:28.380-05:002010-01-08T05:39:28.380-05:00"Bourgeois", in a spelling contest when ..."Bourgeois", in a spelling contest when I was eleven. I'd often read that word in books but thought it was pronounced "bur-gis" not "vor-zhwa." Needless to say I lost to someone who correctly spelled a less difficult word. /facepalm/Layahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15165474974974896915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-42987147105785485742010-01-08T05:09:54.333-05:002010-01-08T05:09:54.333-05:00Ditto on ESL combined with huge reading vocab... S...Ditto on ESL combined with huge reading vocab... So glad I'm not the only one who's struggled with epitome and awry! and Sachar is sacker? Dang, and I've been saying it like sacher, as in -torte...<br />Until about six months ago I called Eoin Colfer "Ian" - until a kid corrected me (not, thank FSM, in mid-booktalk). <br />Enid Blyton I always assumed was eh-NEED... <br />The worst thing is, once I learn a pronunciation rule, I keep using it to excess. After learning my Welsh friend Cerys's name had a K-sound and a short e, I cannot for the life of me say <i>Ceres</i> (the goddess/planetoid/juice brand) any other way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-32737042057098989482010-01-07T20:05:19.099-05:002010-01-07T20:05:19.099-05:00Great post. Thanks, Peter. Just discovered your bl...Great post. Thanks, Peter. Just discovered your blog. And thanks, Andrea, for the teachingbooks.net link. As a bookseller, I've ALWAYS wondered how to pronounce Louis Sachar (now I know it rhymes with cracker) and Jon Scieszka. <br /><br />Of course, my mispronunciations go way back. I'm in my fifties and my family STILL teases me about the time I was 8 and had just seen Mary Poppins for the first time. Coming out of the theater, my mother asked me who my favorite character was. I answered, "AdMYral Boom," thinking, of course, of the word admire.<br /><br />I also mispronounced indict (in-dicked) and deny (DEN-ee) for years. To cover my embarrassment, I've always used the excuse that I learned to read at an early age and never heard the words, so I couldn't possibly know how to pronounce them!Joanne R. Fritzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08076959910493197255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-69475196190166594032010-01-07T14:18:39.511-05:002010-01-07T14:18:39.511-05:00throw in ESL with a "reading vocabulary"...throw in ESL with a "reading vocabulary" and you get -- me in a biolgy class trying to impress the professor, raised my hand and quoted from the book, "when we re gor gi ate. I stopped because everyone were laughing too loud to hear. The teacher asked me to point at the word and he said, Oh Regurgitate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-49296920886171258162010-01-07T13:58:26.148-05:002010-01-07T13:58:26.148-05:00In high school I spoke "compromise" corr...In high school I spoke "compromise" correctly, but I read it as "COM promise." It never occurred to me the two were the same word until I mispronounced it while reading aloud in a history class. The memory still embarrasses me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-88344796349441395742010-01-07T11:10:55.133-05:002010-01-07T11:10:55.133-05:00My most shocking one is furtive. Which I apparentl...My most shocking one is furtive. Which I apparently never looked closely at and have pronounced fuh-YER-a-tive. Also beribboned (which I read a million times in the Betsy Tacy books and never used) was always pronounced in my head as BAR-ry-bonned.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06768531346933598952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-55957668436729917012010-01-07T10:22:23.081-05:002010-01-07T10:22:23.081-05:00I was privileged to hear Madeleine L'Engle spe...I was privileged to hear Madeleine L'Engle speak while in I was in college. The correct pronunciation of her name is Lengle like "angle" with an L in front.my only problemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01229191058436023176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-6268864671417717592010-01-07T10:03:00.072-05:002010-01-07T10:03:00.072-05:00Oh, there are so many. I'm probably still gui...Oh, there are so many. I'm probably still guilty of this. here's one I remember from childhood: COMMittee (from Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing).Anamaria (bookstogether)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10361389598002568007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-38691064248933395062010-01-07T09:50:07.931-05:002010-01-07T09:50:07.931-05:00Mel-an-chol-ee for "melancholy"Mel-an-chol-ee for "melancholy"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7046320545497573335.post-12148081794311626772010-01-07T02:14:21.202-05:002010-01-07T02:14:21.202-05:00Oh, good -- I had your name right!
My word was ya...Oh, good -- I had your name right!<br /><br />My word was yacht "Yah-chitt"<br /><br />I always say Cormier's name Cormy-ay.Bybeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10061186489010154661noreply@blogger.com