Nice image of the Model A. The car is gorgeous, and I like the attendant and the old style gas pumps. (The new challenge of Black & White photos is now open for business - this would have been a good one for that challenge.)
Wednesday, huh?
As written one would think it should be pronounced "WED-nes-day", but I've never heard it that way. Pronunciation varies depending on where one grew up and lives, but one common pronunciation is "WENS-day" as if the "d" wasn't there. Where I was raised it's often pronounced "WENDS-day", as if the "d" and "n" switched positions.
Here's a full color version of the sunflower I posted earlier this morning in the new B&W challenge...
In this color version the strong morning sun really amped up the warm colors and the value contrast.
Don't blame me - I didn't vote for him!
Nikon D7500 with Nikkor 18-300 mm; PSE2021, PSCS5 Ny Flickr Albums
08-03-2022, 10:08 AM (This post was last modified: 08-03-2022, 10:14 AM by Man From Ironbark.)
On pronunciation, it depends a lot on which country or county one lives in. You'll tend to speak the local dialect unless you have been taught differently.
USA speakers do tend to make such letters silent. It appears that the letter U could be dropped from the US alphabet and nobody would notice.
In other words such ac arctic, US speakers always say artic, lose the C altogether.
English speakers do pronouce the d in wednesday and the r in february. They also accentuate the g at the end of words such as working. whereas in the USA it is workin'
Unless you are from Lawn-Giland!
(Long Island)
I love dialects!
"Aw-right" is another one (alright)
But we only say "Doe-la Geen'ral" for fun!
(Dollar General--little stores popping up all over America)
We all have our quirks! Its fun though!
I had a British employer for a few years (From Manchester, England)
We had a land survey crew chief named Clyde....
the English boss heard wrong and was soo suprised that he blurted out "is his name CLIVE"????? (hear accent)
WE cracked up...
No, Mikey...no one in America is named Clive!
Oh, and people go to Doe-La Geenral to get their Rizer Blides!
08-03-2022, 01:58 PM (This post was last modified: 08-03-2022, 02:00 PM by Man From Ironbark.)
There are 2.02 people named CLIVE for every 100,000 Americans.
Clive Jay Davis (born April 4, 1932) is an American record producer, A&R executive, and music industry executive. He has won five Grammy Awards and is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
08-03-2022, 02:36 PM (This post was last modified: 08-03-2022, 02:50 PM by Dave.)
National, regional, and local dialects can be interesting and amusing. I'm sure there are professors who have built careers on studying this.
One that I have encountered: I lived in Cincinnati for about 10 years. There, if someone didn't understand what you said, he/she is likely to respond with "Please?" It took me a while to realize that what he/she meant was "Sorry, I didn't hear that" or "please repeat that." Thus is a dead giveaway that someone has lived in Cincinnati; since moving to California, I've surprised people who responed to with that me by asking how long they lived in Cincinnati.
But making blanket statements can be invalid. I don't agree that the US can easily drop the letter "U". Should we stop referring to our country as USA? Many other common words here require "U": scuba, umpire, pumpkin, bull (and it's related acronym BS), curiosity, bundle, lull, sum, sumptuous, uterus, and probably hundreds more require the "U".
I must admit that I find some US pronunciations quite irritating (irrationally, I admit). The major one that comes to mind is how some pronounce words like "strength" and "length" as if the letter "g" didn't exist. I have no idea why, but hearing this affects me like hearing fingernails on a blackboard. This idiosyncrasy seems to be particularly prevalent among sportscasters and sports commentators.
Of course I mean no disrespect in saying all this; just sharing thoughts that probably say more about my deficiencies than anything else.
So yes, as damar noted: "We all have our quirks! Its fun though!"
Don't blame me - I didn't vote for him!
Nikon D7500 with Nikkor 18-300 mm; PSE2021, PSCS5 Ny Flickr Albums
Dave you would live a life of Cringe in the South!
(I'll say right now, I love it here and would never consider life north of the M-D Line again,
I love my southern brothers and sisters)
--but..and bless their hearts--
Here, if someone didn't understand what you said, he/she is likely to respond with.... "Do whut now?"
I'm not kidding! and "Wh" is an exhale pronunciation.
