"Ssshedule" or "Skedule"?

[Piece]

Some say "schedule' with firm 'Sk' so that it sounds like 'Skedule'. You ok with that, or does it wind you up?

What about the letter 'H' when reciting the alphabet? It is 'Haitch' with a strong obvious H or just 'aitch'???

Anything else similar?

 

[Pathetic Shark]

I get this a lot working in the American sports media. "Offense" not "offence", "SKEDULE" not "schedule" - "ROUT" not "route" - I just change to suit the audience I am working for. It's when I call football "soccer" over here because I am so used to doing it that.

 

[Deleted member 18121]

I'm a SKedule kinda guy, but hearing someone say SHedule doesnt bother me.

The one that does get me though is with my Mrs...."recipe" for me is pronounced ress-ipy, whereas she says rez-ipy and drives me absolutely crazy.

 

[jim8flog]

sch you know what!

is it Schweppes or is it Skeppes

 

[Orikoru]

I say schedule with a SH.

Saying 'haitch' is just plan wrong. 'Aitch' is correct but people add the H sound because of some psychological defect, where because the word describes H it makes people conscious of not dropping an 'H' from words, so they add one there where it doesn't actually exist.

 

[Foxholer]

sch you know what!

is it Schweppes or is it Skeppes

Did you go to shool or skool?

English seems wonderfully inconsistent - often because of the original source of the word! And how many ways of prounouncing words containing 'ough' are there?!! off; ooo; owe; ow; uff; a (ugh).

I've always been a bit more sensitive/amused about some 'replacement expressions' eg the US version of 'bum-bag'!

In my first job over here, a General Manager was parachuted in by the (US owned) company. He'd been a Quarterback for an NFL team (forgotten which) until his shoulder went and had a number of 'puzzling' phrases that kept us amused in meetings!

 

[CliveW]

Why is it people refer to the ground as the floor? Ground is outside and floor is inside.

 

[IanM]

The first part of this needs moving to he "should be illegal" thread...

 

[backwoodsman]

Did you go to shool or skool?

English seems wonderfully inconsistent - often because of the original source of the word! And how many ways of prounouncing words containing 'ough' are there?!! off; ooo; owe; ow; uff; a (ugh).

I've always been a bit more sensitive/amused about some 'replacement expressions' eg the US version of 'bum-bag'!

In my first job over here, a General Manager was parachuted in by the (US owned) company. He'd been a Quarterback for an NFL team (forgotten which) until his shoulder went and had a number of 'puzzling' phrases that kept us amused in meetings!

I'm wondering which version you mean? Because if it's the one I'm thinking of, then it's merely a direct word substitution with another of our own words referring to exactly the same piece of anatomy. (Sorry, pedants corner...)

 

[Orikoru]

I'm wondering which version you mean? Because if it's the one I'm thinking of, then it's merely a direct word substitution with another of our own words referring to exactly the same piece of anatomy. (Sorry, pedants corner...)

Don't they call it a fanny pack? Fanny meaning bum over there, and meaning something quite different over here. Something only a lady would have.

 

[jim8flog]

Did you go to shool or skool?
(ugh).

Neither if I could avoid it , or should that be neether.

 

[SocketRocket]

Baybee or Baybe, BayBees or Babiz.

Or the one I really dislike: Gotten

 

[shortgame]

Don't they call it a fanny pack? Fanny meaning bum over there, and meaning something quite different over here. Something only a lady would have.

"...Cause fanny means your arse over there, not your...".

 

[Slime]

The one that winds me up is when people pronounce medicine as medcine ............................ the word has the letter i in it twice, therefore making it a three syllable word, surely.
Then there's assume ....................... not ashume, yet I pronounce tissue as tishue.
Oh, I'm so confused that it's making my head hurt!!!

 

[USER1999]

Aluminum. No, it is aluminium.

 

[Khamelion]

The one that really winds me up is on the cooking shows, when the American calls it 'carmel' not 'caramel' and regardless of my audience I will still say rooter not router, to me they are different things. A rooter in IT terminology sends data to different places a router is something you use in carpentry.

Used to work with a Yorkshire lad, who had to go do some work in the New York office, he was smoker and one day he got some really funny looks when he asked a colleague if he could, "bum a fag", to me and you he was simply asking if he could scrounge a cigarette of another smoker, to the yanks well you get the gist.

 

[BubbaP]

I dislike "Toos-day" for Tuesday, and "warder" for water.

1st world problems 😁

 

[Maninblack4612]

A few sports commentators pronounce "masters" with a flat "a". Drives me mad. The first syllable should rhyme with "car" not "lass"

 

[Lord Tyrion]

A few sports commentators pronounce "masters" with a flat "a". Drives me mad. The first syllable should rhyme with "car" not "lass"

I'm not a commentator but I am guilty, or actually not guilty. Marsters as you would pronounce is the posh way. I didn't realise there were posh people from Shields

 

[Deleted member 15344]

A few sports commentators pronounce "masters" with a flat "a". Drives me mad. The first syllable should rhyme with "car" not "lass"

Calling the British Masters the British “Marsters” - would sound like someone talking with a plum firmly shoved up their rear end

Is it cast or “carst” - Mast or “Marst”