the pronunciation of the word 'Fork'...would like some comparison with other similar sounding words...just came across someone pronouncing it in an odd way the other day...Hence thought of posting it here...Thx...
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Gosh, I think I need more sleep, I think you just asked a question about forks.  Let me re-read that.  Yep you did, okay.  \n\nI say fork as in fork.  there is an "f" and a "or" and a "k".\n\nPut it all together and you have fork.  As in Mork (and Mindy) or Dork or Pork or ... some other words I am sure, just trying to wake up here.
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I live here in Oregon as well. No. We do not have an accent. As far as I can tell, anyway. Lived all over. Plenty of accents and dialects. None here that I can tell. None of the other answerers provided any type of example. Do we have a drawl? Do we put 'R'\ns in words like the northeasterners? What, specifically, is it that pacific nw people do to have a distingushed accent?
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Aliohope got it right.  Coño is not a made-up word, and Spaniards frequently use it instead of damn, sh–t, etc.  To John, who said it was made-up by Mexicans who speak very bad Spanish…um, no.  Not even close.
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God, no one in this program takes anyone seriously... Anyway, why don't you call this random country Himmel? I was bred just five minutes ago, and the German Translator said that meant Heaven. Unless you want to call it Holle, which is Hell, only with those two freaky dots above the 'o'. Hope it helps!
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Please listen to me.\n\nI actually do know what I'm talking about. You do eat using the European or Continental way. It is not rude if you were brought up using the Continental way. It IS rude if you are trying to be pretentious and thumbing your nose at the American way (which is to transfer the fork), but I don't think you mean to be pretentious. \n\nLet your wife understand that both ways are acceptable and simply reflect the person's upbringing or culture.
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♡Well, I'm sitting with a group of 8 Japanese (as I pretty much do once a week) and I asked them your Q just now. This is what they said ～　It's a little difficult for us to pronounce "R" as well as "L", "V", "TH" and a few other letters or combinations of letters because they are those letters/sounds that aren't used in our everyday Japanese. SOME of us aren't accustomed to forming the letter(s) with our mouths or making the correct sound. We're just not used to it so when SOME of us speak English, which is foreign to us, we have some difficulty. It's not on purpose! It would be the same for some "foreigners" trying to speak Japanese and using "tsu", "gyo", "ryu" and such, they just don't get it. Think about it. We stress SOME because many Japanese people don't have the problem and pronounce "R" and all sounds perfectly. ～～So Coffee, there you have it, straight from the mouths of Japanese, who all speak English exceptionally well I might add!♡
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Zack, check out my question about how not to spell the short form of Zachary.  Apparently the 'Zach' camp doesn't want to see my point, I could use some support.
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1. "r" is soft, and "rr" is hard. And yes, they really sound different. (eg  pero = but, perro = dog; caro = expensive, carro = car)\n2. it's pronounce like the "g" in general or like "y" \n3. j always sounds like "h" (a little harder though) in hello.\n   ga, go gu sounds the same as in english. ge, gi sonds like j in spanish, like "h" in english.\n   ch always sounds like ch in cheese.\n4. there aren't any spanish native words beggining with "w", but it sounds like "gu"\n5. therre's no difference in pronunciation between "v" and "b" in spanish, they sound like "b" in english
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I believe it is a British dialect called "cockney".  Me and my husband have this same arguement everytime those commercials come on! This is weird, but go to this website, it's the only one I could find with an example in audio (its a story told in cockney, sounds like the gecko!) You have to listen for a minute or so to get to it.
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Language is an interesting thing.\n\nIt is quite possible to have two very, very similar sounding words with very different meanings.  Consider "heaven"  - would you get especially positive connotations from someone named "Evan" just because they sound the same?\n\nNo, we are not taught that the WORD "Hell" has negative connotations.  It is the CONCEPT, not the sounds.  Sounds are not magic, and where words do have magic it is from the meaning behind them, not the sounds.\n\nAnd if you are going to get hung up on sounds, hello comes not from "hell" but from "hallo", which sounds like Halo, which is a good thing, right?\n\nOf course from where I come from "hell" sounds more like "halo" than "hello"! But then, we're more likely to say "Howdy!" anyway.\n\nBTW, your URL looks like "heave no" to me.  I'd be inclined to think it was a natural anti-emetic, not a religious site.
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When I lived in Pittsburgh, PA people pronounced Washington as Wershington and would say "yuens guys" which is suppose to be pronounced "you guys"..But that is just a regional thing.I think the funniest times I have heard mispronounced words is during numerous Bush speeches....And then there is ex Vice President Dan Quayle who spells potato as potatoe.
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I raise my eyebrow at the whole idea. Now if I was suddenly filled with the Holly Spirit and was so overjoyed that I couldn't form words in English and spoke something like Latin or Italian.. then yeah.. but jabbering on in a "language so ancient" that no one understands it.. then no.. they are not speaking in tongues.. they just can't express themselves in words.. so they make sounds.
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Use the link below to see the definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, and click on the little speaker icon to be able to hear it pronounced.  It sounds a little like "HAY-puh-nee."\n\nNeed the answer? Ask your friendly neighborhood librarian!
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thebuzz.com links it\nhttp://www.fork.com/?aff_ref_id=google-mosquitokw&gclid=CO_aiuK_xIUCFRAISQodLAqrqA
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"comf'terbul" has a perfectly logical explanation and is an acceptable pronunciation (as is "comf'tebul")\n\nAnd why don't pronounce it "the way it's written"?  Because language simply doesn't always work that way.  And so I don't say "I-run" for "iron"; and the "t" that I pronounce in "soft" I do NOT pronounce in the form "soften" (even though it is written that way and even COMES from "soft").\n\n--------------------\n\nThis sort of re-ordering of the sounds of a word --called "METATHESIS"--  is very common in language.  It may come about by confusion, but often it happens simply because the expected form is more difficult to pronounce.    In some cases the change is considered ignorant or at least non-standard, in other instances it is the (or a) ACCEPTED pronounciation.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metathesis_(linguistics)\n\n\nExamples in English:\n1) incorrect/nonstandard:\n  "nuclear" -- pronounced as "nucular" (by educated people as well... including THREE Presidents in recent times --not just GW but Carter & Eisenhower)\n  "ax" for "ask"  (though actually BOTH forms are found in the Middle English of Chaucer)\n\n2) correct:\n  "iron" -- pronounced "i-urn"  In fact, does ANYONE say "i-ron"?  On the other hand, we DO keep the sounds in their written order in the suffixed form "ironic".  (We do the same with "irony", though it's acceptable, or at least permitted, to say "i-urnee" --as we do with "ironing".   Thus, the most important factor seems to be where the word is ACCENTED.)\n\n3) debated but probably correct\nThe example of "iron" vs. "ironic" --that is, changing the pronounciation based on where the accent falls (often related to whether there is a suffix or not)--  helps explain why we SAY "comfort"  but "comfturble".    There are two conflicting "laws" at work here. In our spelling, we do not change the base when we add the suffix "able".   But the change in the PHONOLOGY (sound pattern) pushes us to SAY the word in a way that is much easier to pronounce.  \n\nHere's how it happens.  Note that the syllable in question --"fort"--  has a slight accent in "comfort" but almost NO accent when we add the "able" suffix.  In English, adding suffixes frequently shifts or reduces accent of certain syllables.  When a syllable loses accent, the vowel typically is shortened; in an UN-accented syllable it may end up as the 'swallowed', unaccented "schwa" sound, or even completely disappear.  But this leaves us with the unaccented combination "frt" which is more difficult or at least less natural to pronounce.    The natural solution is to simplify the pronounciation, either by skipping the "r" sound (which leads some to say "comf'-tubly") or to reverse sounds ("metathesis") and say "comf'turbly".\n\n------------------\n\n(Frankly, I suspect the pronunciation "com-four-tab-ly" is  a hypercorrection.   Some people say it that way BECAUSE of the spelling, whereas the SPOKEN language long ago changed the pronounciation.  But spelling is NOT always a sure guide to the spoken language.  Based on SPELLING, some people improperly pronounce the t in "often", not recognizing that the "t" is from the short form "oft" and is LOST when -en is added . . . as in soft > soften, compare list > listen; haste > hasten, etc.)\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercorrection\n\n-----------------------------------------------\n\nIncidentally, this process or metathesis explains the origins of some modern English words.   Old English had "brid", now it is "bird";  Old English &quo
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"Yep, it was an artificial language which 'died'."  Hahaha\n\nMi parolas esperanton! (I speak esperanto) \n\nI speak esperanto better than english :P\n\nI have a lot of friends Esperantists!!  \n\n"Its phonetics is not very simple, it is a sexist language that considers for example, that a woman is just a female version of a man, and its derivational processes are not always very clear."\nThat is very subjective!  \n\nIt is more difficult to find idists than Esperantists!\n\nIn my opinion, what is important is to diffuse the "internal idea" (a neutral international language), and is better if is done from a sufficient strong movement(the esperantist).  Supporting Ido just would weaken a little the esperantist movement, but would not help to diffuse "the internal idea".\n\n"I've heard of it. I had a friend on livejournal.com who was studying it."\n\nSee:\nhttp://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=esperanto\nhttp://community.livejournal.com/esperanto/  \n\n;D
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Is it supposed to sound like "Mee-liodex" or "Mell-liodex"? I automatically pronounced it the second way, and it made me think of "Rolodex".   \n\nCan't think of any word it sounds like in Spanish (my second language).  But there are some Latin men named "Elio" so ppl may associate it with that if they know someone with that name.  \n\nBut this would be a good name for a product that needs to be pronounced in both languages, beacuse it is easy to say in Spanish as well as English.