Comments on: You Lost Me After “Feb”

By: Wendy

Wendy — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:36:48 +0000

I often hear jewelry pronounced jewl-ery.

By: GrammarBook.com

GrammarBook.com — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 17:10:28 +0000

In reply to Rebecca. We are not familiar with usage of "reguly," although we believe it entirely possible that it could be common in certain informal, regional vernacular.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:04:37 +0000

Re: ”reguly” I’ve always been curious if that is regional, and if so, what region? My husband says that and a couple of other similar words, and has lived in many parts of the US.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:05:55 +0000

Every politician and newscaster should learn that it’s pronounced nu-klee-er not nu-kyu-ler.

By: GrammarBook.com

GrammarBook.com — Sat, 05 Mar 2016 21:23:04 +0000

In reply to Peter. While we haven't heard spigot pronounced spik-et, Webster's does list it.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:21:01 +0000

This is fun, but I have to admit you caught me with Cummerbund, I’m guilty!
Another that gets me is Spigot. It is often spoken and spelled like “spiket”. Do you have an explanation how this has become normal? Thanks for your expertise in your emails. I appreciate this so much.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 03:15:36 +0000

I often hear people pronounce “regularly” as “reguly”.

By: GrammarBook.com

GrammarBook.com — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:37:08 +0000

In reply to Carmel S..

Thank you for your note. We share your frustration with media (see next week’s post).

And thank you for “fith.” That goes on our list for next year!

By: Carmel S.

Carmel S. — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:36:22 +0000

I am in complete agreement with you. I live in Australia and we have just had the Australian Open Tennis in Melbourne. Every single TV commentator irritated the dickens out of me when they would say ‘fith’ instead of ‘fifth’, and the latest trend seems to be to construct a sentence and put the name of the person they are referring to right at the end of the sentence, ie “She is hitting her serves at 200 kph, Serena.” They did this with every single player they were commenting on and it drove me nuts. I find TV presenters are often guilty of poor pronunciation these days, particularly bad as they of all people really should know better, arrrrgggghhhhh!!! Wasssa matta wif dem????

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By: GrammarBook.com

GrammarBook.com — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 23:23:07 +0000

In reply to Barbara M.. Good for you for noticing "is, is." We covered this odd practice in our Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation and in our Confusing Words and Homonyms section online at GrammarBook.com.