POLL: How to pronounce Genealogy?

[jaybelnz]

It's fush n chups PF - get it right

At least it's not feesh and cheeps!

I tried to buy some navy blue laces in a shoe shop in "Seedney" once, and the shop assistant turned to the other assistant and asked her "do we have any nivy blue lices"?.

In my twenties, I was there on a working holiday for a year, and by the time I got back, I was told I speaking with an Australian accent!  😄😄

[pinefamily]

 

[Guy Etchells]

I think we need a poll for scones and a poll for whether up North or down South 

Scone pronounced to rhyme with spoon is definitely Scottish

Whereas scone as in on is simply correct English, whereas scone rhymes with own is American English.

However it is not as simple as that as American usage as with American spelling is sometimes the old English usage imported when they were simply part of the colonies.

Cheers
Guy

[a-l]

Scones for me. To add to the pet peeves, the disappearing ' t' in todays language, bedder etc.

[Beeonthebay]

I think we need a poll for scones and a poll for whether up North or down South 

Scone pronounced to rhyme with spoon is definitely Scottish

Whereas scone as in on is simply correct English, whereas scone rhymes with own is American English.

However it is not as simple as that as American usage as with American spelling is sometimes the old English usage imported when they were simply part of the colonies.

Cheers
Guy

The same for Australia, they use some terms which at first I thought were quirky Aussie sayings I'd never heard of but it seems they hung onto some old English and Irish words long after they'd been dropped over here.

[Skoosh]

The notion that scones are scoons in Scotland is quite ludicrous. Only the place-name Scone is so pronounced & that has nothing to do with scones.

In my neck of the world scone is general but both variants are used, skon sounds a bit perjink to me but that's the pronounciation given in my Scots Dictionary.

Ozzie prostitute.....Emma Chissit.   

[bearkat]

Genealogy for me.

My pet peeve is the replacement of 'th' with a 'v'  - wiv instead of with.  Footballers don't seem to be able to say 'th'.

[Ray T]

I'm not sure that there is still such a word as "medcine"?

As for polling North and South re scones, I'm not sure whether its actually a N v S thing. Of course the easiest way to differentiate between a northerner and a southerner is that those in the north go down to London whereas those in the south go up.

[..claire..]

I'll be honest,  here in the North I've heard a few people say 'medcine', but there again I work in a hospital.. I hear it all the time 

claire