I know I’m not the brightest button in the tin so hope someone will correct me, but how do you pronounce Emirates?  On the news tonight a reporter just said Emerartees, is that a different word or just the latest way of pronouncing words different for the sake of it.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
I went around and oiled all the door hinges and latches this week, ostensibly so we make less noise that might wake the baby but it's made all the doors feel like new again.
I've also installed a new language checking add-on to Firefox which offers corrections to my spelling and grammar. This allows me to use fancy words like ostensibly without worrying if I've spelled it properly. Â It's also a very prim and proper tool which politely tells me to reconsider my use of language if I type a naughty word. Unfortunately it's a supporter of the Oxford comma and Americanised spelling. It gets very upset if I don't spell it as Americanized for example. It also gets upset if you mix spellings in the same paragraph I've just found out. I'm expecting it to add 'see me' at the end given the amount of red pen it's using to correct my mistakes.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Lyn, that pronunciation is just wrong. Mind you, I did have a geography teacher who insisted the correct pronunciation of the mountain range was Him ARE lee ers and strictly speaking we ought to say Eve-rest not Ever-est because the former was how Sir George Everest pronounced his name.
The one that I am struggling with is Kamala (Harris) as I keep wanting to say cuh MAR la when it should be CAR muh luh. I suppose we should be grateful the Democrats did not choose Pete Buttigieg.
I’m another who gets annoyed if the computer corrects my spelling. I don’t mind it picking up typos but I do get cross if I want to spell something in a certain way and the computer tries to override me for a second or third time.Â
I don’t think I have ever had a computer that tried to correct my punctuation but a fist through the screen would be a very likely outcome.
So @wild edges. How does it spell and pronounce Emirates?Â
Emrits.
I do struggle with spelling. Some words just won't stick in my head for some reason. I've found associative learning helps for some words, for example I know weird is spelled e before i because that's a weird way to spell it, but even that doesn't help with some words.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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The one that I am struggling with is Kamala (Harris) as I keep wanting to say cuh MAR la when it should be CAR muh luh. I suppose we should be grateful the Democrats did not choose Pete Buttigieg.