I've never heard housewife pronounced as "hussif" - but I have seen a sewing case (in this case a beautiful folded and embroidered one) called a hussif (even written this way).
We live and learn lol
Where I grew up in Indiana - route didn't rhyme with root - it was pronounced with an ow in the middle instead of oo.
My trusty Oxford English Dicti housewife (pronounced house-wife)= married woman directing household affairs, and pronouned huzif = a case for needles and thread
Being French speaking as my first language, this will be like homework for me. So I will ask my English speaking friend to test me for accuracy in my pronounciation. Hope my spelling is ok. lol. Thanks Cheryl, you made my day. Dixie in NB.
When I give to you something I made with my hands I share my heart.
Yes, and the sewing case 'Hussif' was directly derived from 'housewife'. . In message , CATS writes
Donna, I am living in Bryan, Ohio, just a wee bit from the Ohio/ Indiana border. I moved here a few years ago from KC, MO where I was born, raised and lived for 48 years. We pronounced creek with a long e, here in wonderful Ohio it is pronounced crick rhyming with ick!!! Not the same as a crick in your neck.
It is amazing (rhymes with grazing) how different life is here compared to MO.
Marsha in nw, Ohio
As a tutor for [adult] literacy here, now you'all can understand the looks of confusion I get from many of my students!
While English is my "first" language, I also dabble in three more, one of those practically everyday at work!
Thanks for this, Cheryl, I will pr> If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you
Rasputin
I agree. It shows the varied languages from which "English" takes its words. Great listing of some of the words that give people fits, not just ESL speakers/readers. Many people who read a lot have problems with pronunciation of some words. (DH is one. ) Pati, in Phx
~KK > Gee, I read it out loud and stumbled on three words....... but then, I LOVE
Depends on definition. You can live on a "rural route" (pronounced "root") But a ball game can be a total "route" ( rhyming with "out") with a score of many to zero.
Same is true of many words, as well as where you are from. I often have the instinct to use British spellings for some words, don't know why, but it does make sense to me.
Pati, > >
Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
See! Donna even agrees with me! *BEG*
Dannielle - who's ducking and running...again!
In my dictionary it hasn't got an 'e' on the end if its 'utterly defeated', but does rhyme with out.
It is all complicated, isn't it.
Ahhhhhhhhh, the Midwest dialect :) I thought the same thing and it took me awhile to figure out "mould' when was the "u" added?
Butterfly (taking a break from making my Design Wall-our 'painter' stopped by today just to see the 'progress'. What a neat guy : ) I have a good pic of him painting and when he is totally done with everything that needs doing we will give him a framed copy of it. DS said "there's somehting wrong with this pix..if he looks so happy--we must be paying him too much" )
Things like dropped e's and changes in pronunciation are aften a reflection of the Americanisation of English.
Just consider the way we say "lieutenant". Anyone with an English education (and that would include Aussies) would say lef-tenant, but Americans (and those influenced by their culture, probably through movies) would say loo-tenant.
he's probly hoping you'll make him a beeeeeeeeautiful quilt after all his hard work on the studio. snorfle, jeanne
Yes, it's pronounced crick here in Idaho. One of the hardest things for me to get used to - we always called those things that run along thw side of the road ditches - in Idaho they're called borrow pits!
For many years I worked with a lady (while I still lived in Indiana) that was from Iowa, Nebraska - I'm not sure - somewhere west of Indiana. Anyway she made all kinds of fun of the way we pronounced spatula. She pronounced it spa tool' a - we prounounced it spat' u la!
Nope! Our rural route rhymed with out!
One of the things that always confused me when I was a kid - everyone pronounced Crayons 'crans'. I would look at the spelling and couldn't figure out how they got cran out of Crayon.
Another one - my grandmother always called the farm implement harrow - harry - with the a like the o in hot!
His SO would not care for that. Nope, not one bit.
Butterfly (gotta keep him as a friend in case we ever get tired of these colors : )
And just how do you pronounce: hangar-
1: you hang your clothing from 2: where you park your planes Are they pronounced the same?Butterfly (not being funny--Fun knee-- why on earth is our knee having all the fun---and why aren't BOTH knees having fun? That was hard for me to comprehend as a kid : )
Whoa! I'm not sure what part of Iowa that would be! I've always heard that pronounced as "spat chu la"
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