Wait, that's how you say that?

[kenobi65]

Bet they got it from an Australian. We had great fun prodding Capellan about that.

Nah, they're all Americans. I think that one of them just started using it that way as a yoot, and it stuck.

 

[Zander]

One of my gaming buddies when I was an undergrad pronounced "scimitar" with a hard "c", i.e. "skimitar", which made the rest of us cringe.

He also pronounced the "i" in "minotaur" like the "i" in "fin". It isn't wrong but does strike me as strange; for me, that "i" is like the one in "fine".

 

[Hypersmurf]

Bet they got it from an Australian. We had great fun prodding Capellan about that.

Three of the people I play with do it as well. I've given up trying to change them.

I confess to confusion, though - how do you all pronounce 'advertisement'? Do you just take the word 'advertise' and stick an extra syllable on the end? Is this an American thing?

I'm sure I've heard "The following is a paid advertisement for..." in an American accent, with advertisement pronounced correctly...

-Hyp.

 

[occam]

I have a buddy who inserts "dd" in place of "tt", so "kittens with buttons" becomes "kiddens with buddons."

That's a dialectical difference (one that kinda bugs me), not an error, unlike the way I thought "gesture" was pronounced reading it as a youth, with a hard "g". I knew the written word, and I knew the spoken word "gesture" (pronounced jes-cher), but I didn't put the two together for years.

 

[Stormborn]

I confess to confusion, though - how do you all pronounce 'advertisement'? Do you just take the word 'advertise' and stick an extra syllable on the end? Is this an American thing?
-Hyp.

Yes "advertIse - ment". Long "I". Not "adver-tis-ment" w/ a short "i."

Zander- I have never herd minotaur any other way than with an "i" as in "fin."

kenobi65 - "a yoot"? What is a "yoot"?

 

[Tonguez]

I joined a D&D group about 15 years ago, and discovered that, to a person, the group pronouned "paladin" as "puh-LAD-in" (rhymes with "Aladdin").

Um how do you pronounce Paladin if not to rhyme with Aladdin?

oh and how do you p[ronounce Arch-mage if not as Ark-Mage

and its adver-tis-ment Not adver-tise-ment

ask her to say aluminium. note the extra i. the brits actually pronounce and spell it differently correctly.

just corrected your error there

 

[Talislan]

..... quoting davey jones ....

...'ask her to say aluminium. note the extra i. the brits actually pronounce and spell it differently correctly.' ....

just corrected your error there

Thankyou Tonguez, was about to lose it completely until I came across your reply... Thankyou.

People please,
it is:

a-loo-min-ee-um
or
Aluminium (IPA: /ˌæljʊˈmɪniəm/, /ˌæljəˈmɪniəm/)

anything else is sheer laziness.
Please don't make me start a petition....
I think my pettiest pet hate has just been exposed! d'oh!

 

[Tiberius]

Um how do you pronounce Paladin if not to rhyme with Aladdin?

oh and how do you p[ronounce Arch-mage if not as Ark-Mage

For reference, I say Aladdin thusly:

a-LAD-in

Paladin, then, is PAL-a-din.

For Archmage, I go with a soft "ch" sound, like in chair or church.

 

[kenobi65]

kenobi65 - "a yoot"? What is a "yoot"?

LOL. Perfect!

Assuming you're not fooling...

Yoot = youth, in a New York accent. In "My Cousin Vinny", Joe Pesci plays a barely-passed-the-bar lawyer from New York, defending his cousin (Ralph Macchio) and his cousin's friend from murder charges in a little town in the South. Ed Gwynn (a.k.a. Herman Munster) played the courtly Southern judge.

Pesci: "So, judge, da two yoots..."

Gwynn: "Excuse me?"

Pesci: "Da yoots."

Gwynn: "Yoots? What's a yoot?"

 

[Hypersmurf]

a-loo-min-ee-um

Oh, the horror!

I'm used to hearing "a-loo-min-um" from the poor benighted Americans.

I've never heard "a-loo-min-ee-um" before. It's like a horrible hybrid.

"al-yoo-min-ee-um", please.

-Hyp.