craig1410
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 posted on 11/8/04 at 10:27 AM |
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Pronunciation of "Pork"
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.
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matt_claydon
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 10:55 AM |
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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.
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pbura
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 10:57 AM |
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My question is, how do you pronounce "fork"? 
Pete
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mookaloid
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 11:08 AM |
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pork as in fork definately
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alfasudsprint
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 11:24 AM |
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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?
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 11:32 AM |
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I said like toe just to be awkward... besides anyone who can actually pronounce that way deserves some respect surely..?
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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craig1410
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 12:44 PM |
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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.
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ned
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 12:52 PM |
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pork as in fauk.
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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Peteff
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 01:05 PM |
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Or is it poork?
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]
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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alfasudsprint
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 01:19 PM |
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Now you see the nonsense of English spelling!
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Benzine
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 01:57 PM |
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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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James
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 03:05 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by alfasudsprint
Now you see the nonsense of English spelling!
You're in Brazil right?
In which case I'm surprised not to have seen an inverted '!' at the beginning of that sentence!  
James
[Edited on 11/8/04 by James]
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marktigere1
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 03:25 PM |
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What about Bath?
If a bolt is stuck force it.
If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway!!!
(My Dad 1991)
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locoboy
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 03:31 PM |
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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
ATB
Locoboy
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marktigere1
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 03:40 PM |
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Wymondham in Norfolk is pronounced Windum
If a bolt is stuck force it.
If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway!!!
(My Dad 1991)
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spaximus
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 03:45 PM |
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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.
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craig1410
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 03:45 PM |
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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.
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 04:12 PM |
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I Agree its gart two B pawq
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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Jumpy Guy
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 04:50 PM |
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OI! dont get me started on Scone!
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.
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Peteff
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 05:07 PM |
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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.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Dick Axtell
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 05:34 PM |
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Oriental version
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]
Work-in-Progress: Changed to Zetec + T9. Still trying!!
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craig1410
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 07:39 PM |
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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.
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ned
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| posted on 12/8/04 at 09:44 AM |
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i hear they pronounce towcester like toaster!
what about almonds? arm-monds, all-monds, al-monds
bollox.
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 12/8/04 at 10:23 AM |
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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
quote:
Originally posted by ned
i hear they pronounce towcester like toaster!
what about almonds? arm-monds, all-monds, al-monds
bollox.
Ned.
[Edited on 12/8/04 by stephen_gusterson]
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 12/8/04 at 10:42 AM |
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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 !
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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