Hi,
Please help me to settle an office debate amongst my colleagues by voting for how you pronounce the word "Pork" . I'm not going to say
which pronunciation I use to avoid any bias but once a good few votes have been cast I will do so.
Thanks in advance (I hope!)
Craig.
How on earth would you pronounce it the second way? Would it be "Poke" or "Poerk" or "Perk" or what? Never heard anyone
say it like that before!!
Cheers,
Matt.
My question is, how do you pronounce "fork"?
pork as in fork definately
Look at the phonetic spelling in a dictionary....ok, so maybe you don't read phonetic symbols...the vowel sound in pork is the same as fork. Unsurprisingly to most, no?
I said like toe just to be awkward... besides anyone who can actually pronounce that way deserves some respect surely..?
Hi again.
Thanks for the responses. I don't yet want to indicate my preference because my colleagues will accuse me of tainting the results but to
confirm:
The first option is pork pronounced with like p-aw-rk and the second is pronounced like p-oe-rk. With the oe as in toe.
Cheers,
Craig.
pork as in fauk.
Ned.
I hate it when people create an extra syllable in words, like book or cook pronounced boowak or similar and don't pronounce the 't' in
words like little or bottle. Even worse when they say lickle instead. Why isn't it pronounced like work instead or at least spelt like hawk.
Pigmeat should solve the dispute.
[Edited on 11/8/04 by Peteff]
Now you see the nonsense of English spelling!
Has to be like 'fork'. Just don't get me started on 'Scone'
If you pronounce it 'Sconn' please leave the area. Or go and answer your 'Phonn', give your dog a 'Bonn' and go to a
lake and scim a 'Stonn'
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Originally posted by alfasudsprint
Now you see the nonsense of English spelling!
What about Bath?
im with Fork pork,
also people who live in SHREWsbury pronouncing it SHROWsbury, the mascot for many of the towns events/teams etc is a god damn SHREW for a very good
reason too! - What the feck is a SHROW, and im at a loss with the tits that call it SHOEsbury, oh yes plenty of them and they live there
Wymondham in Norfolk is pronounced Windum
Pork definatley. My very favorite mis pronuceation is Woodward.
When I was at school we had a whole lot of Wood Wards, as two seperate names, but after callan every one whi had that spelling became WOOD WOOD. Now
how anyone can turn WOOD (as in trees) and WARD (as in hospitals) into Wood Wood is fecking made. Probably went to the same scholl as the guy who make
Colin Powell into COALIn Powell.
Well, thanks to all who have responded so far. I can now reveal that I agree with 94.44% of respondents (17:1), much to the bemusement of my
colleagues. I also can't understand why anyone would pronounce it as Poerk...it is clearly Pawrk !!
We have a saying up here in Scotland, "Beasted" which basically means "Humiliated" or "Put in your place". Hopefully my
colleagues know what that means now...
Craig.
I Agree its gart two B pawq
for too long skone has been used!
get it right-
Something you eat is a sconn.
somewhere you live is Skoone
anything else is just plain wrong.
We buy spuds (potatoes) by the stonn round here , and I'm often told off for drinking watter and going up theer as I do tend to slip into local
dialect(nowt to do with dr Who) Thee and tha knows etc. is still in common usage.
In Chinese take-away emporia, and also in Korea, pork is usually pronounced "pok", rhyming with wok.
Infinitely preferable to poe-rk. Who the hell deamt up that one? Suspect they were taking the piece; ain't they got no work (or is it
"werk" ) to do?
[Edited on 11/8/04 by Dick Axtell]
Dick,
Tell me about it, I've got to sit next to these guys and even after the result of this poll they think that they are correct and the rest of the
world is wrong...
I agree with the Scone (skonn) and Scone (Scoon) spellings for the food and place respectively by the way.
Cheers,
Craig.
i hear they pronounce towcester like toaster!
what about almonds? arm-monds, all-monds, al-monds
bollox.
Ned.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Towcester
read the first line of the entry........
I lived in Towcester for 5 years, and its a ten minute drive from here.
Locally its most certainly pronounced toaster (or at least tow ster)
atb
steve
PS - to remove all doubt, you could call it
Lactodorum (Lactodorvm) as the romans did
http://www.mkheritage.co.uk/tdlhs/TowHist/History/History.html
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Originally posted by ned
i hear they pronounce towcester like toaster!
what about almonds? arm-monds, all-monds, al-monds
bollox.
Ned.
Just to get the sweaty socks going... (jocks for the un-educated)
how about Edinburgh..... ?
And how/why is St John pronounced Sinjun ?
Or how about the Moray firth - pronounced Murray ??
Bloody foreigners eh !
I'm from Bradford and so was my Grandad. He pronounced the word the second way, but I pronounce it as in fork.
He also pronounced book, and cooker with the sound 'oo' like Fool whereas I pronounce it with the sound 'u' like buck, cucker
Should I start another Poll?
Sorry, but Shrewsbury is Shr-ohs-burry. Shrew's Berry (as in the small mouse like creature) is only for Americans who also say Ingerland and
Gl-ow-sester (or Gl-ow-sester-shy-err).
I seem to remember there's a place in Devon that the locals call curtain, but I'm damned if I can remember the proper name!
Kingr
quote:
only for Americans who also say Ingerland
Kingr
It ain't a scone it's a damn biscuit, and I will have mine with poe-irk tenderloin on it, smothered in some good ole sausage gravey. How do
ya get lester out of Leicester....
You want to have fun with pronunciation, mon down here to the south...
David
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Originally posted by white130d
You want to have fun with pronunciation, mon down here to the south...