POLL: How to pronounce Genealogy?

[Treetotal]

I am inclined to agree Millie...I'm from East Yorkshire and it's Ology from me too...if it was pronounced as in allergy I would expect it to be spelt with double LL.
Carol

[Deirdre784]

I'm an 'alogy' from Cardiff.... never heard the beginning as gen... 

And barth, parth, sco-ne (not scon)..... 

[Ray T]

No it can't be "scon" otherwise the saying would be "sicks and stons would break my bons".

My current peeve is people in the "meeja" referring to "Glarsegow".

[Rainbow Quartz]

Can't be doin' with all these 'r's' in words, bath and path for me, and DEFINITELY not Glarsgow!! And I say scon too (although I do agree that words with an e on the end should have a long vowel sound, I just get the p*** taken if I say scone! )

[patty38]

Usually say Family History instead, but when pushed 'genie-ology' and always scon.....if you say sco-ne in the north east you get the mickey taken for 'talking posh' 

Patty 

[Deirdre784]

Wikipedia says genealogy and family history are different things .....

The use of the terms "genealogy" and "family history" are often used synonymously, but some offer a slight difference in definition. The Society of Genealogists, while also using the terms interchangeably, describe genealogy as an "Establishment of a Pedigree by extracting evidence, from valid sources, of how one generation is connected to the next" and family history as "A biographical study of a genealogically proven family and of the community and country in which they lived".

Sometimes the term used is based on region, with societies in Europe often using the term "family history", and those in the United States more often using the term "genealogy".

[Skoosh]

My own pet shibboleth is the frequently demonstrated inability of the Sudroun to pronounce the word "Deteriorated!"

Do they need their tongues cutting?   

Skoosh.

[Rainbow Quartz]

No probs with deteriorate, I can do that!; what gets me is draw for drawer, and drawring for drawing
Also, as a flower arranger ( ) and gardener, I get REALLY fed-up with Gypsophila (or baby's breath, that rather nice fluffy white flower much loved for weddings) being pronounced jipsofeelia. THERE IS NO 'I' BETWEEN THE L AND A (Sorry for rant )
I often wish that English could be like Spanish, where every letter has a specific pronunciation, but maybe that would be boring?

[pinefamily]

If we're talking pet peeves, one of mine is "medcine"; once again it tends to be the Hyacinth Buckets of the world who mispronounce med-i-cine.

And as I referred to in my previous post, it is the fluidity of the language that gives us these variations.
Scon or scoan, tomahto or tomate-o, and here in Australia, depending on which state you live in, we have school as in fool, or schuul as in mule, and cahstle or caastle as in tassel.