B3, it's also a noun for at least three things, one of which is rude. The others are not however (e.g..the noise a steam train makes) so it always seems like a lovely word to me rather than a replacement for the f-word. It maybe helps that I really liked the person who had the chuffin' habit
Christine Walkden always says balsalamic instead of balsamic when talking about using said vinegar on tomatoes.
I went on a week-long course where the instructor said dart-a rather than day-ta for data and it did annoy me.
I had a teacher at junior school who called margarine marg-arine (g for gone rather than g for ginger). He insisted we were idiots to giggle at this because that's the way it used to be pronounced. Often wondered if this was true or he was just trying to save face (in front of a load of 10 yr olds!!?)
Anyone know if margarine was a hard-g when it first started out?
To be honest, "margarine" with a soft "g" makes no sense (though I say it like that). We wouldn't say "Margate" or "Margaret" with a soft "g". Following the "g" with an "e" makes it soft. The "a" following the "g" should make it hard.
I can't believe there are people on the BEEB who now pronounce "Nuclear" as "new-cue-lar". I think it started with George Bush Jnr (and was, in my opinion, typical of his "I'll-do-everything-as-I-want-and-d***n-everyone-else" approach). But it's just plain ignorant, and lazy... though why I should be complaining about laziness on the GOS thread I don't know...
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B3, it's also a noun for at least three things, one of which is rude. The others are not however (e.g..the noise a steam train makes) so it always seems like a lovely word to me rather than a replacement for the f-word. It maybe helps that I really liked the person who had the chuffin' habit
Christine Walkden always says balsalamic instead of balsamic when talking about using said vinegar on tomatoes.
We had a teacher who called granite graynight.
Why does it grate like fingernails on a blackboard or chewing silver paper?
I went on a week-long course where the instructor said dart-a rather than day-ta for data and it did annoy me.
I had a teacher at junior school who called margarine marg-arine (g for gone rather than g for ginger). He insisted we were idiots to giggle at this because that's the way it used to be pronounced. Often wondered if this was true or he was just trying to save face (in front of a load of 10 yr olds!!?)
Anyone know if margarine was a hard-g when it first started out?
FIL always pronounced margarine with a hard g. He was a words man,
In the sticks near Peterborough
To be honest, "margarine" with a soft "g" makes no sense (though I say it like that). We wouldn't say "Margate" or "Margaret" with a soft "g". Following the "g" with an "e" makes it soft. The "a" following the "g" should make it hard.
I can't believe there are people on the BEEB who now pronounce "Nuclear" as "new-cue-lar". I think it started with George Bush Jnr (and was, in my opinion, typical of his "I'll-do-everything-as-I-want-and-d***n-everyone-else" approach). But it's just plain ignorant, and lazy... though why I should be complaining about laziness on the GOS thread I don't know...
Years ago, it was usual to be asked "butter or marge" ? and I suppose many of used the soft g after that.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPEwOupGe_I
I had a prissy cookery teacher who pronounced it that way too. Maybe they went to the same cookery teacher school.
However you pronounce it, it smells and tastes disgusting
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Lantana Was she Scottish? Our secondary school domestic science teacher was and gave it a hard G.
That women was really really fierce. A horrible woman.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
That would account for it lantana
These teacher's really don't care abut how they can damage your future prospects
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