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Discovering you've been pronouncing a word wrong all your life

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JCB Jan 2023 8:52am, 1 Jan 2023 3,850 posts	Quote Pin JCB I suspect the pronunciation for Hyundai is catered to the local area. In adverts in Australia they emphasise ending in ‘day’. This is interesting: hyundaiofasheville.com Excerpt: How to Pronounce “Hyundai”? As you might imagine, the pronunciation of Hyundai changes depending on where you are in the world. In the US, the commonly accepted pronunciation of Hyundai rhymes with “Sunday”—you’ll notice that this is how it’s said in American advertisements. With that said, in the UK, it’s often pronounced “high-UN-dye.”Of course, Hyundai is a Korean company, and in Korea the pronunciation is closer to “HYUN-day.”
3 Wise Ms Jan 2023 11:34pm, 1 Jan 2023 20,042 posts	Quote Pin 3 Wise Ms On a related note (since our US cousins got a mention!) does anyone know the Iraqi and Iranian pronunciation of Iraq and Iran respectively? US pronunciation seems to be Eye-rack and Eye-ran, UK is usually Ih-rack and Ih-rahn. But are either of them right?
Night-owl Jan 2023 11:56pm, 1 Jan 2023 40,898 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl JCB I don't know what adverts you get where you are but here new advert covering this till a woman at end says its Hyun-dai or similar
Night-owl Jan 2023 11:59pm, 1 Jan 2023 40,899 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl https://youtu.be/8peKcSEDFB4
JCB Jan 2023 12:30am, 2 Jan 2023 3,864 posts	Quote Pin JCB My hearing isn’t great but it seems she says “hyoon-dy” (very short vowel ending) and then the voiceover is “hyoon-day” (oon being like Spanish “un”).
Alice the Camel Jan 2023 3:22am, 2 Jan 2023 12,750 posts	Quote Pin Alice the Camel I’m in US at the moment and was surprised to hear the TV newsreader pronounce Maryland almost like Marilyn.
Gooner Jul 2024 10:23am, 19 Jul 2024 19,668 posts	Quote Pin Gooner I feel like everyone on social media keeps pronouncing eccentric wrong when relating to exercise and it automatically makes me lose interest in what they are saying, regardless of the content.
Ocelot Spleens Jul 2024 10:31am, 19 Jul 2024 39,283 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Clematis.
Ocelot Spleens Jul 2024 10:34am, 19 Jul 2024 39,284 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Also, as a brother/sister thread, there should people using non-existent words. I heard an American journalist say 'measurely', what he meant to say was measured but seemed unable to speak in the past tense.
NordRunner Jul 2024 12:55pm, 19 Jul 2024 4,405 posts	Quote Pin NordRunner JCB wrote:I suspect the pronunciation for Hyundai is catered to the local area. …” Yes. In Norwegian the “y” and “u” vowel-sounds are very close but distinct neighbours, and straddle categories used in English (making it hard to hear and learn). The result to English ears is a word almost like the German “hund” as except with a bit longer “u”.