misuse of "decimated"

[Pleater]

I think I might be on the endangered list as I will be calling next month Feb-ru-ary rather than Feb-you-ary.

Anne the Pleater:ootd:

[ForresterModern]

I think I might be on the endangered list as I will be calling next month Feb-ru-ary rather than Feb-you-ary.

Anne the Pleater:ootd:

I am with you Anne. I have been pronouncing the first r after the b in February since I was a kid, being raised by educated west virginians who vowed to not be seen (or have their children seen) by northerners (where we had moved) as poor hicks with bad language skills. They both gently taught us 4 kids the "king's english" in every way shape and form they could. Plus, being born in February I was expected to get that right every time from early on. At one point there was even a little movement to pronounce the d before the n in Wednesday, but that dies a quick death when a peak into any dictionary showed that pronunciation to be improper just about anywhere, north, south or east of the big water.

It is funny how some people actually look at you funny when you pronounce February correctly, them thinking that you do not know how to say it like the "rest of the world" with only the second r pronounced.

[Bruce Scott]

I come from a country that many of the inhabitants call straya -

[Kiltedjohn]

Do you pronounce the "d" in "Wednesday"? Many people say "Wensday". In primary school, it was drummed into us that the "d" must be pronounced. I think, though, that this was to make us avoid the local pronunciation [West side of central Scotland], which was "Wensday" with a hideously long "e"!