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Schedule. Do you pronounce the "c"?

Yes

yes

Yup

not if your welsh lol

So it's "Skedule" not "Shedule" ?

Neither is wrong, both can be right. The beauty of the English language is bested only by the beauty of numbers.

Keep out of this Mr Welsh Person.

Wow!! I won an argument against two of the girls at once!

Impossible.

Of course, they don't agree that I won, but I'm quite smug.

Nope ur wrong

OK KIDZ!

Splain me this one.

Aluminum.

Here in yankland we say A-LUM-I-NUM...

Even after 5 years in blighty I could never figure out why anyone would want to pronunce it

AL - U - MIN - I - UM

Why use 5 sylables instead of 4?

Mr Mad Yank Sir, just for you :

"Derived from the Latin ALUMEN for ALUM (Potassium aluminium sulphate). In 1761 French Chemist Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau proposed that ALUMINE for the base material of ALUM. De Morveau was instrumental in setting up a standardised system for chemical nomenclature and often collaborated with Antoine Lavoisier, who in 1787, suggested that ALUMINE was the oxide of a previously undiscovered metal.

In 1808 Sir Humphrey Davy proposed the name ALUMIUM for the metal. This rather unwieldy name was soon replaced by ALUMINUM and later the word ALUMINIUM was adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists in order to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements. By the mid-1800s both spellings were in use, indeed Charles Dickens commented at the time that he felt both names were too difficult for the masses to pronounce!
 
The patents of both Hall and Héroult refer to ALUMINIUM and the company Hall helped set up was originally called the Pittsburgh ALUMINIUM Company. It was shortly renamed the Pittsburgh Reduction Company and in the USA the metal gradually began to be known only as ALUMINUM (in 1907 Hall's company finally became the ALUMINUM Company of America). In 1925 the American Chemical Society decided to use the name ALUMINUM in their official publications. Most of the world have kept the I in ALUMINIUM but it is interesting to note that the name for the metal's oxide, ALUMINA has been universally accepted over its more convoluted alternatives, ALUMINE and ALUMINIA.

Both ALUMINIUM and ALUMINUM have an equal claim to etymological and historical justification, and it seems that the difference in both pronunciation and spelling is likely to stay with us for the foreseeable future!"

Clear it up for you?
 

ZOMG Yeah I guess so.

But still why say the convoluted one instead of the simple one?

Schedule can be pronounced either way.

Which makes four different ways of saying that  ;popcorn;

It can only be pronounced one way without sounding like a total pillock.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=3563.msg82952#msg82952

Well, the thing is Ron, the English language allows us to pronounce words differently if they are spelt differently. So aluminium & aluminum are, like, well, different words, so we say them different. Thats why, for example, "cat" & "dog" are spelt differently - so that we can pronounce them differently, & don't try taking the cat for a walk.

Only Americans could make SUCH a mess of our beautiful language. Please explain why we need "inflammable" & "flammable".....
 
I do love you Ron, really. You are so cute.

PS - For those that don't know, Mad Yank & me are good buds, but he needs putting in his place now & then.

PPS - Hey Mad Yank, where are you from?

....but how should we pronounce "either".......? Is it, phonetically, "eether" or "ither"? Does one assume "neither" & "neither" follow the same ruling?

PS - Answers from Ameirican not required, please. We want it right.

Err that's why there are four ways of pronouncing that....

Mini-whoosh ?

Latest in a long line Ralph......

MadYank originates from New York  City!

Choo got a problem wit dat?
Are you looking at me?
Are you looking at me?

Surely if you're talking in a New York twang then surely it should be " You lookin at me"  not looking ?

No, its "You luckin at me?"

For the love of all things good and holy do I really now have Eeeeeeeglish peoples correcting my New York Accent?


So I went to the New York Public Library and asked for a library card. The nice lady asked for proof of New York residency, so I pulled out a knife and stabbed her!

Nice one, you get your card?

If you're from Britain, and using British pronunciation it's shed-dule.

If you want to accommodate American English, you can pronounce it either way.

The same way as route is pronounced in the same way as root if you're British, but as r(out) to rhyme with bout, if you're American.

Whilst I'm at it - pronunciation is NOT pronounced as 'pro-nounce-ciation', and advertisement is pronounced as 'advertiz-ment' NOT advertise-ment.

Also important to remember that Kev is correctly pronounced as 'wideload'...and he supports Colchester United.

two too to

won one

threw through

see sea



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When i was younger and living in Saudi Arabia there was a big american compound near where our villa was and we regularly spent time there (it was the only source of english speaking tv we could find).

All the americans pronounced it "Skedule" whereas all the brits there pronounced it "Sshedule" - i kept with the sshedule pronunciation.